I’ve produced an experimental social media news page using Feedly Mixes. You can embed this sort of thing into any site you like. As you can see, it grabs and mixes up the content from selected RSS feeds – a list of sites covering the subject, as chosen by me. It then ranks the articles according [...]
October 7, 2008
I’ve been thinking about the future of newspapers a fair bit over the last few weeks, because we’ve been preparing a panel event on just that topic. It’s involved a range of reading and on-record and off-record conversations with a load of people involved with newspapers – readers, editors, pundits and the man on the [...]
November 9, 2006
Great post from fellow Good-blogger Kate on the bête noire that is partial feeds. I share her thoughts entirely on this issue. She’s unsubscribing from anyone or anything that only offers partial feeds. Unfortunately for me, since some of my most important news sources (every (?) UK newspaper and the BBC) only offers partial feeds [...]
September 19, 2006
Forgive me, but it’s time for me to indulge in a ‘how cool is this!?’ post. Grazr is a very nifty solution to RSS and Blogrolls in a widget. It can work from either a single RSS feed or an OPML file. Pity you can’t add or remove subscriptions on the fly, but you can’t [...]
September 15, 2006
Went to a networking event last night: Beers and Innovations in Soho. The pretext for the event was to discuss the future of RSS, with presentations from Richard Edwards of MyZebra, Peter Nixey of Webkitchen and Ivan Pope from Snipperoo. Thanks to the ‘beers’ aspect, my notes get a little sketchy after the first speaker. Richard [...]
August 9, 2006
Good to hear from Craig Williams from audabble.net [update: now gone to pot, it seems] who has just set up a new personalised radio service. The downloadable Flash application plays your own MP3 files interspersed with news highlights from your favourite sources which are fed through a text-to-speech engine. At this point, the service still needs [...]
January 4, 2010