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RSS has been alive this whole time. Blogs usually have it by default, the big news organizations have it. The only thing I'm not satisfied with reading news on RSS, is that news organizations push too many articles, to the point that reading the headlines alone takes quite some time. There's nearly 100 articles per day per source sometimes. Unlike a newspaper, which has a natural structure of priority and hierarchy,…
RSS has been alive this whole time. Blogs usually have it by default, the big news organizations have it. The only thing I'm not satisfied with reading news on RSS, is that news organizations push too many articles, to the point that reading the headlines alone takes quite some time. There's nearly 100 articles per day per source sometimes. Unlike a newspaper, which has a natural structure of priority and hierarchy,…
Newsblur has a training feature [1], with a thumbs up/down on article tags, author, and keywords in a title that can bubble up more interesting articles or completely hide them. Unfortunately training is per feed, there's a newer Premium Pro tier with global training coming out with it, but it is much more expensive [2]. 1. https://www.newsblur.com/faq (under Intelligence section) 2. https://forum.newsblur.com/t/glob…
I assume this is targeted at professionals that are trying to stay abreast of developments around certain topics/subjects. If you think about it through that lens it's reasonably priced, I suppose.
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> If you want to export your feed list, this can be tedious Does Google Takeout support Google Podcasts? That'd be the usual method of exporting everything from a Google product.
> Does Google Takeout support Google Podcasts? Nope. One of the few use cases where I actually looked towards Google Takeout as an escape hatch for my data, instead of a mere novelty ("a ZIP of all my YouTube interactions—that's neat, I guess"), but Google Podcasts is not there. I've filed several complaints about this and several other shortcomings in response to the Google Podcasts app's spammy notifications reques…
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Spotify is in fact intending to move away from RSS, as a means of creating a walled garden: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/08/spotify-hypes-the-revenue-... > […] The company spent a good portion of its presentation specifically focused on podcasts, which it said had been “largely unchanged” for years before its entry into the market, due to the limitations of RSS. > Spotify cited how unbundling podcasts from RSS tech…
The entire framing of this (esp. re "unbundling") is pretty gross. Unbundling is associated with disintermediation. What Spotify is doing is the opposite. What organizational dysfunction led to the circumstances here—where the writers and editors of the linked article uncritically publish and more or less legitimize this kind of shameless corporate spin?
The whole article is pretty much just re-wording Spotify's press release.
There seem to be no sources in it except for Spotify's press release.
So, a very old form of organizational disfunction in journalism: The cheapest and quickest way to write an article is to use someone's press release as the only source, as it doesn't actually require, well, any journalism.
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> Does Google Takeout support Google Podcasts? Nope. One of the few use cases where I actually looked towards Google Takeout as an escape hatch for my data, instead of a mere novelty ("a ZIP of all my YouTube interactions—that's neat, I guess"), but Google Podcasts is not there. I've filed several complaints about this and several other shortcomings in response to the Google Podcasts app's spammy notifications reques…
That sounds useful; do you have that tool published somewhere?
It could really stand to have an associated 90-second video demonstration that walks through the steps because of how unorthodox the the-documentation-is-the-implementation paradigm that I was experimenting with is.
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Unfortunately, to Spotify's great delight, the word "podcast" has been successfully embraced, extended, and extinguished. Us technical types have been complicit in it by allowing the word "podcast" to mean audio shows on proprietary platforms that require proprietary players.
> Us technical types have been complicit in it by allowing the word "podcast" to mean [...] Those types have done a lot of the same damage to the word "wiki". It blows my mind that Sourcehut of all places is a willing participant in debasing the term.
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Feedburner is a zombie product now, and has been for a few years.
I'm subscribed to some feeds from them. I didn't notice any ads, yet. Do you mean by 'zombie product' that they don't do ads anymore?
Not a lot of new features being developed, and some features getting turned off "to support the product's next chapter"[1].
There hasn't been a firm announcement about Feedburner being sunsetted, but given Google's history of killing things off (including Reader, apropos of this thread's topic), it does feel like the walking dead.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/04/changes-to...
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Newsblur has a training feature [1], with a thumbs up/down on article tags, author, and keywords in a title that can bubble up more interesting articles or completely hide them. Unfortunately training is per feed, there's a newer Premium Pro tier with global training coming out with it, but it is much more expensive [2]. 1. https://www.newsblur.com/faq (under Intelligence section) 2. https://forum.newsblur.com/t/glob…
Wow, $299/year. you weren't kidding. I assume this is targeted at professionals that are trying to stay abreast of developments around certain topics/subjects. If you think about it through that lens it's reasonably priced, I suppose.
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Newsblur has a training feature [1], with a thumbs up/down on article tags, author, and keywords in a title that can bubble up more interesting articles or completely hide them. Unfortunately training is per feed, there's a newer Premium Pro tier with global training coming out with it, but it is much more expensive [2]. 1. https://www.newsblur.com/faq (under Intelligence section) 2. https://forum.newsblur.com/t/glob…
Wow, $299/year. you weren't kidding. I assume this is targeted at professionals that are trying to stay abreast of developments around certain topics/subjects. If you think about it through that lens it's reasonably priced, I suppose.