![]() What sites was this blogging innovator following. You can view my feed list as a feed reader, because of a feature I added late in the development process.Īnd I had to have a nosey. One thing did catch my eye, though, is that Dave is sharing his own feed reading using the service: I am subscribed to 470 feeds. In particular, his idea of News Products could be really handy. In mid-December, Substack made an announcement that, unless you had been closely tracking the company, came as a bit of a surprise. I've not yet had time for a detailed play with it, but I will do so, and report back. It's an experiement in building a new form of RSS reader, one that has a social element to it. Meanwhile, Dave Winer, one of the genuine pioneers of blogging and one of teh instagators of RSS, is working on a new product, Feedland. Substack is free until you start charging for subscriptions. ![]() Unexpectedly, Substack added RSS reading to its reading app on the web and iOS, which had been limited to reading Substack publications (we're not allowed to called them newsletters, apparently) before then: Want to add a publication from outside Substack? No problem-just select “Add RSS feed” from the left sidebar. Make it easy for people to read every post with an RSS feed, which sends your new posts. However, there have been some rather more significant moves towards making it a useful technology for readers on the web again. And given that a large percentage of the web is powered by WordPress, they often do have RSS feeds, even if they're not aware of it. It still underpins podcasting, for example. (That's nearly a decade ago… How did that happen?) But technology like that doesn't just vanish. A lot of people assume that RSS Feeds died with Google Reader back in 2013. ![]()
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