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This site is dedicated to promoting tools and services that support building social networks based on RSS feeds. See https://andysylvester.com/2025/05/26/announcing-the-feed-net...…

A video announcing the return of the Org Mode for Beginners video series. Leave a comment with your top question about Org Mode, and I will address it in a future video!

I comment on a recent On The Media podcast about podcasting, and respond with a podcast in the style of Keith Olbermann.

I have created a proof of concept for a microblogging tool relying on RSS for data storage and rssCloud for notification. I was motivated to do this to show how rssCloud could be u…

I included the information about Dave Winer in the article because (1) there have been problems in his products regarding rssCloud support for WordPress sites, which I wanted "on t…

See my earlier reply, Atom can support rssCloud through the addition of a cloud element.

The main benefit of rssCloud is quicker notification of updates versus polling every 10 to 60 minutes, as most feed readers do. The drawbacks are that the tool generating the RSS f…

Atom feeds can also support rssCloud through the addition of a cloud element as defined in the RSS spec.

I would be interested in know what your feed reader service is, and how subscriptions support WebSub.

rssCloud is a separate protocol, but performs many of the same functions as WebSub.

I use River5 ( https://github.com/scripting/river5 ), and pipe the output to a web app ( https://readinglist.andysylvester.com/ ).

My summary of the recent work in the rssCloud arena