Getting Back Into RSS: Publicly Posting my Feed Library for you to Raid

Smokler on September 24, 2019

 

Inspired by Matt Haughey's public posting of the RSS Feeds he subscribes to, I'm doing the same (below). 

What is RSS, you ask? A method to subscribe to what your favorite websites publish and have their updates all in a single place. Think of it as DVR for the Internet, food delivery instead of pickup except for the web. Podcasts would on the same technology and concept: Subscribe once, receive forever without asking again. 

RSS has been around for most of the 21st century but took a pretty big hit first when people began using Facebook and Twitter to receive regular news updates then when in 2013 when Google discontinued its free RSS product called Google Reader. At that point, anyone who still used an RSS reader and carefully pruned their feed library was probably over 30 and stubborn. 

Lately though, its been making a bit of a comeback. Idea being that self-selecting your daily information diet (see: No Trump-loving-creepy-brothers-in-laws) probably means less unwilling toxicity and restless nights of non-sleep. 

I'm all for this. RSS made the Internet seem both rich and manageable in my early days with it and I'm still grateful. And while not every one of your favorite web publications still have rss feeds (many newer ones which came along in the last fallow few years just didn't bother)  many still do. 

The more feeds we share, the more our friends and loved ones can conveniently use RSS to assemble their own rich and varied information diets free from the poison of racism, intolerance and fight-picking. 

In that spirit, my entire RSS feed library taken from the great Newsblur Reader service then alphabetized is below. Take, subscribe, read, enjoy. 

* items with a star are feeds custom created by me. 

 

Feeds:

 

Gleanings: Ice, Wellness, Replacements.

Smokler on August 25, 2011

  • The 7 Iconic Patents That Define Steve Jobs (TechCrunch). 
  • HBO Documentary on Gloria Steinem runs this fall (LA Times). 
  • Whole Foods to open members-only wellness clubs. (Brand Channel). 
  • "Unsavory Elitism and Culinary Politics" (NY Times). 
  • Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson discuss the possibility of a Replacements reunion (Rolling Stone).
  • There's a thing called 'Texasism' (Salon). 
  • 10 Big Ideas From DJ Spooky's ‘The Book of Ice’ (PSFK). 
  • Wired Magazine online has a "This Day In Tech" feature if you're into that sort of thing.

Gleanings: Metadata, Dropping Dead, Outcasts and Historic Toilets.

Smokler on August 9, 2011

I'm recapturing the links I post on twitter each day here for those who prefer to get them this way. 


  • Can a Newspaper Think like a Startup? (GigaOM). 
  • Why Metadata will Define the Future of Television (Mashable).  
  • Rolling Stone to Music Industry: Drop Dead. 
  • On the Trail of George Orwell's Outcasts. (BBC).
  • 9 Great Reads by David Foster Wallace at Byliner.  
  • Who Stole The Mona Lisa? Geat tale of theft of famous painting from Louvre in 1911 (Slate). 
  • 6 Famously Terrible Movies That Were Almost Awesome (Cracked). 
  • ‘Stand By Me’ Was Released 25 Years Ago Today (Slashfilm). 
  • The Completely Unecessary Footloose remake Trailer (The Week). 
  • On the 4th year of San Francisco's Outside Lands Music Festival which is this weekend. (SFgate). 

Gleanings: There Might be Meetings, There Will be Change, They Might be Giants

Smokler on August 10, 2009

Gleanings: Hapiness, Qwittering and Fantastic Mr. Fox

Smokler on August 2, 2009

Gleanings: Critics, Theatres, Light Cycles

Smokler on July 25, 2009

Gleanings: Snobbery, Literary, Pecuniary…

Smokler on July 13, 2009

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