Robin Rendle: It bothers me that writers can’t create audiences on their own websites, with their own archives, and their own formats. And they certainly can’t get paid in the process. (Although yes, there are exceptions). This. I love the newsletters I’ve subscribed to — but I love them because of their content, not their […]

Techcrunch: Ultimately, all of media is prioritization — every site, every newspaper, every broadcast has editors involved in determining what is the hierarchy of information to be presented to users. Somehow, RSS (at least in its current incarnation) never understood that. This is both a failure of the readers themselves, but also of the protocol, […]

Seth Godin: Other than writing a daily blog (a practice that’s free, and priceless), reading more blogs is one of the best ways to become smarter, more effective and more engaged in what’s going on. The last great online bargain. Good blogs aren’t focused on the vapid race for clicks that other forms of social […]

Silvia Killingsworth: There was a time (2007) when I had hope for this Internet. There was once a humane way to sift through the day’s news that wasn’t just standing under a faucet of opinions and viral pixels that get stuck to you and then you have to pass them on like germs because you […]

Dave Winer: To publishers and bloggers — this is a big deal because it means that the same feeds you generate to post stories to Facebook can be used for other sites. It’s a very strong statement. No publishing silos. Let news flow where it wants to. And let competitors arise who may do more […]

Su Techcrunch MG Siegler ha mostrato come Google Reader sia una delle fonti di traffico più stabili, soprattutto per i blog di piccole e medie dimensioni. Si chiede quindi cosa comporterà la chiusura del servizio: questi lettori migreranno da qualche altra parte, o in uno scenario peggiore scompariranno? Mentre infatti i grandi siti possono fare affidamento […]

Brent Simmons (creatore di NetNewsWire) elenca le ragioni per cui gli RSS sono ancora vivi e apprezzati da tutti noi, geek e utenti comuni (senza che però se ne rendano conto): The formats are stable. Code I wrote five years ago to parse feeds would work today and will work in five years. (The formats are […]

Quando Google Reader è arrivato, nel 2005, ha distrutto un intero mercato di soluzioni alternative, portandosi via l’innovazione. Era gratuito e non c’è stato più alcun incentivo per gli sviluppatori a competere: Google aveva vinto. E da anni, da allora, di feed reader innovativi non se ne sono visti. La chiusura di Google Reader avrà […]