Happy birthday, #RSS 🎉
25 years ago, Netscape released you to gather headlines from various websites, in the 2000s you became a common way of following online content, only to be superseded by algorithmic feeds in the 2010s (cf. #enshittification).
While your mothership is long gone and the little orange icons left most footers, you are still doing the diligent work of Really Simple Syndication across the #OpenWeb, especially for blogs and podcasts.
Cheers & kudos!
My all-time favorite RSS reader is NetNewsWire by @brentsimmons!
It runs on Apple desktop computers and mobile devices, syncs via various services, and is free and open source.
And it comes with a special feature for distraction-free reading: the magical reader view that can be enabled by default on a per-feed basis. So handy!
Sharing a few of my regular feeds (a.k.a. #blogroll):
Eurozine (@eurozine) translates and publishes a selection of articles from magazines and journals across Europe - especially relevant in this election year.
Website: https://www.eurozine.com/
Feed: http://www.eurozine.com/feed/
The Public Domain Review (@publicdomainrev) publishes essays on works of art, literature, and culture recently freed from copyright restrictions:
Website: https://publicdomainreview.org
Feed: http://publicdomainreview.org/feed/
#PublicDomainReview #PublicDomain #RSS
Nightingale is the journal of the Data Visualization Society with a blend of theoretical and practical articles about #DataVis.
Website: https://nightingaledvs.com
Feed: https://nightingaledvs.com/feed/
#DataVizSociety #Nightingale #RSS
Ars Technica (@arstechnica) is a technology and science website with detailed reporting - covers a broad range of tech topics not just computing.
Website: https://arstechnica.com/
Feed: https://arstechnica.com/feed/
Colossal (@colossal) truly "celebrates contemporary art and visual culture across a wide range of creative disciplines". Must-have in your subscriptions!
Website: https://www.thisiscolossal.com
Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/colossal
We Make Money Not Art has been running for 20 years - with thoughtful and at times leftfield coverage of art, design & tech
Website: https://we-make-money-not-art.com/
Feed: https://we-make-money-not-art.com/feed/
Marian Dörk
