news.scripting.com

[scripting]

I have had a news product attached to my blog for a long time.

Today it switched over to new FeedLand technology.

http://news.scripting.com/

If you have questions, here's the place to post them.

Still diggin!

[tomcritchlow]

Would love to get access to play around with it!

[scripting]

@tomcritchlow -- I sent a DM on Twitter.

[Clay-Ferguson]

We definitely need to revive RSS in a bigger way. It's still struggling to come back after Google and most BigTech platforms abandoned it because it helps make the middle man (BigTech) unnecessary, and putting users in touch directly with the content itself also eliminates the AD stream, to some extent. I'll be looking into "FreeLand" if I can find it.

[Crul]

I think I'm looking at this from the wrong angle, because I don't understand what is FeedLand for.

There doesn't seem to be a public RSS Feed I can subscribe to, and, although the individual feed links are available, I cannot find the list of all the feeds. So I don't see an easy way to include content from FeedLand into my RSS reader.

What am I missing?
Thanks

[scripting]

I tried to say what you’re looking at in the news.scripting.com site in the post, but I guess, in terms of todays feed readers it doesn’t make sense, because in those systems each user only preparing news for themselves.

In this case, I am choosing the sources I want to present to readers of my blog, as the feeds I myself read, not for inclusion in their feed readers, rather just to read.

This is where I’m starting in showing FeedLand, because I want people to think about this role. It’s different. It may not be something you want to do, that’s okay. FeedLand can also be used as a feed reader, and you can, as you envision, share your choices with other feed readers, and I will show you how that works, but not yet. 😀

hope this helps.

[Crul]

Yes, I think my confusion is a mix of the project being in its earliest stage and not fitting my (personal and specific) use of RSS. To me, the main point of RSS is to avoid having to visit multiple (hundreds of) sites to get the latest posts / news. (Unless I'm missing something, in that case, please correct me:)
If FeedLand were successful and a lot of people published their "curated aggregated news feed", I wuold still have to visit all those sites.

Thanks for the answer.

[scripting]

If each of these FeedLand sites also published the OPML subscription list behind it, would that do it for you?

[Crul]

Indeed, that would be awesome. I love RSS and it would be great to see its ecosystem grow. Sharing OPMLs is one of the things I miss the most. Thanks for your work!

[scripting]

Stay tuned…

[scripting]

@Crul -- fyi

If you look at news.scripting.com you'll now see a white-on-orange XML icon. See the screen shot below.

It will only be there for tabs that are derived from categories, at least for now. I have the OPML link ready to go for those.

I did this in response to a question about yesterday's write-up on Scripting News. It was good feedback. We want to appeal to people who are already immersed in RSS culture. They need to see that we are too. This is a good way to demonstrate that imho.

[rsdoiel]

I like the idea of OPML in the upper right being prominent. It indicates where the aggregation came from to me. An idea that occurred to me is if I liked the aggregation, besides adding to my own feed list, I could also treat is as a source for ingestion into a personal search engine so I remember where I read things. Nice.

[scripting]

personal search engine

good idea!

[Crul]

@scripting That was FAST! Thank you very much.