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But a revival isn't dependent on the technology or the type of apps that can consume RSS. It is the lack of outlets publishing on a regular basis. Social media's grip on attention has only grown stronger since RSS readers were more popular.
Blogs are mostly gone comparatively speaking to 10-15 years ago. Many authors do an email newsletter.
RSS is still around but it's a content supply problem and not a technology issue.
I have been using RSS for the last 10+ years and have not been on social media for almost at least that long.
Wow, that is my goal now. I'm curious, what RSS readers do use on mobile?
For instance we can have feeds for:
- all software project we use/follow, to get info about a new release without having to go to a site/read an ML etc and perhaps finding the Changelog directly in the feed;
- be advised of a new invoice from some company, a simple way no enterprise I know offer, but on par with emails to give an invoice, perhaps with the attached pdf and an easy to auto-parse data fields to munge easily relevant infos in a personal system, like match the invoice with a banking transaction, adding it to a personal agenda etc ALL with few lines of code from ALL parties instead of utterly complicated crapware monsters;
- follow some books authors or special offers as a form of self-chose, not invasive ads
- automation as machine-to-machine, using the XML in automated (and eventually authenticated) fashion.
The real issues are:
- all modern IT is designed for CONSUMING contents in eterodirected ways, users MUST BE powerless dumb sheep;
- most users actually ARE CL from Simon's BOFH memories with systems force them in such sorry state.
I am ingesting articles w/ superfeedr, sending them to a webhook answered by a lambda function, putting the items into SQS, and then picking them up and putting them in an arangodb database.
It will show a single item at a time, Tik-Tok style, and you can thumb up or thumb down. 2004 vintage text classification was able to do this well with 1000 judgements which a moderately avid user could supply in 10 days looking at 100 articles a day.
It won't be easy to sell unless it can learn on many fewer judgements than that so it needs some semi-supervised classifier that does better with fewer judgements. A real product also needs some kind of clustering to deal with the reality that an event radiates stories gets echoed many times by different sources in the media and blog industry and whether you are interested or not interested in the event there is some limit (usually) of your tolerance of the event dominating the stream.
Maybe I'm missing the point, I never read news or other such things, so perhaps there's just no use case for me.
I still use it on a daily basis like many others. But a revival isn't dependent on the technology or the type of apps that can consume RSS. It is the lack of outlets publishing on a regular basis. Social media's grip on attention has only grown stronger since RSS readers were more popular. Blogs are mostly gone comparatively speaking to 10-15 years ago. Many authors do an email newsletter. RSS is still around but it'…
Truthfully I have never used RSS, beyond having to support it in a piece of software. I've never really understood the appeal and I've never been able to make it fit into my life. Maybe I'm missing the point, I never read news or other such things, so perhaps there's just no use case for me.
edit: technically in Atom format but functionally it's the same, just add /releases.atom
I still use it on a daily basis like many others. But a revival isn't dependent on the technology or the type of apps that can consume RSS. It is the lack of outlets publishing on a regular basis. Social media's grip on attention has only grown stronger since RSS readers were more popular. Blogs are mostly gone comparatively speaking to 10-15 years ago. Many authors do an email newsletter. RSS is still around but it'…
But it had far more value in a world with a lot of individual blogs, many of which were only updated occasionally, and without other reliable discovery mechanisms for those blogs--other than going to a site every few weeks to see if there was something new.
Truthfully I have never used RSS, beyond having to support it in a piece of software. I've never really understood the appeal and I've never been able to make it fit into my life. Maybe I'm missing the point, I never read news or other such things, so perhaps there's just no use case for me.