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| | frankmcpherson.blog
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| | As I have observed earlier, right now there is a lot of good energy around RSS with new feed readers popping up nearly every week. Yesterday Manton Reece released is take on an RSS app called Inkwell that is a companion to his micro.blog service/app that I use to host this blog. Because Inkwell integrates with the blogging platform that I use, I find there are reasons to consider using it while I have resisted looking at other apps. I have been using RSS since I first learned about it in the early 2000s. Like many, I used Google Reader mostly because it was a web app that I could use on any device. Over the years I tried desktop and phone apps like NetNewsWire, but in the end found myself back to the simple web apps that Dave Winer wrote over the years.
| | micro.welltempered.net
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| | (Darn it! I missed the exact anniversary.) On January 16, 2017, I wrote an email to Manton Reece, declaring my interest in the role of community manager at Micro.blog. Have you ever found something so compelling that you couldn't stop thinking about it? When I read Manton's plans to hire a community manager, a stretch goal in the Kickstarter campaign to launch a new blogging and social media platform, I had that feeling: this is me.
| | www.manton.org
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| | rhonabwy.com
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| I started with RSS and NetNewsWire as an aggregator quite a while ago to keep up with the blogs and other various information sources I wanted to follow. It was the most effective way of keeping up with the developer communities I was interested in. Things progress, change, and generally move - and I moved...