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Thoughts about replies in RSS Chat

Interesting article about the difficulty of getting/discovering replies in a RSS Chat world and possible solutions....

Tim
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RSS has a business problem, not a technical one

RSS could be the perfect way to read the news - if only publishers could make money from full-text feeds. I argue the missing piece is a reselling portal: one subscription that unlocks full articles from many publishers, in any RSS reader.

Tim
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What is RSS Chat - and what not?

An explanation of rss.chat, what it does, what it provides, and what not

Tim
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CSS Filtering for RSS Readers

I have come across this article about CSS-related vulnerabilities in email clients. It's quite shocking what you can do with CSS if you render arbitrary CSS...

Tim

Is Atom better than RSS?

There is this old argument about whether Atom is really superior to RSS. It comes back every once in a while, and also this weekend on Hacker News. Like so...

Tim
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How RSS Disappeared from the Mainstream

There was a time, back in the 2000s and early 2010s, when RSS was nearly mainstream. All enthusiasts knew it, and most used it. Websites prominently featured...

Tim
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About Two Waves and a Dot

Hi, Human here! I just wanted to give you some background on this blog, why it exists, and how everything came together. Just be aware that you are reading this...

Tim