#curatingcontent — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #curatingcontent, aggregated by home.social.
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Daniel N. let me know about his new site, the revamped CiteMe (https://citeme.app. ) CiteMe rang a bell so I asked him when it launched. He replied “The site originally launched in 2024 as a citation generator, built around a Chrome extension. I bought it in January 2026 and rebuilt it completely. The old version generated citations with a language model, which is exactly how fabricated […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/11/revamped-and-relaunched-citeme/ -
Mudkip Mud Sport: Introduction to KizunaShelf: A shelf for everything you love. “I settled on an Obsidian Vault where everything I care about is a Markdown file, complete with front matter and organized using Dataview and later Obsidian Bases. But manually managing a database of over 2,000 Markdown files introduced a new kind of friction: hunting down metadata, updating statuses, and tracking […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/18/introduction-to-kizunashelf-a-shelf-for-everything-you-love-mudkip-mud-sport/ -
XDA: Kage makes it stupid simple to archive websites before they disappear, and it has become my favorite read-it-later app. “…aside from my movie collection, ripped ROM files, and ebook library, I also have smaller-sized files that I prefer to store on my local workstations. Web pages are one such medium, and between link rot corrupting my curated collection of posts and JavaScript-laden […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/01/xda-kage-makes-it-stupid-simple-to-archive-websites-before-they-disappear-and-it-has-become-my-favorite-read-it-later-app/ -
EFF: Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For. ” In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our feeds and networks. Good news: there’s a tool that’s been around for decades that can help wrangle many of your feeds into something manageable: Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known as RSS.” Nice roundup but sadly they do not mention RSS Gizmos.
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/27/eff-hate-the-algorithm-rss-is-one-of-the-tools-youve-been-looking-for/ -
Spotted in my RSS feeds: the Mastodon NotifyBot. From the front page: “NotifyBot watches Mastodon hashtags and DMs you when new posts appear, so you never miss the conversations that matter. NotifyBot is best for niche or low-traffic hashtags — the ones that slip past your timeline.”
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Optional.is: TIL DB. “Introducing the Today I Learnt Database. Over the last few years, each day we’ve been collecting a few ‘interesting’ headlines. We dropped them into a text file and at the end of the year went through everything, converted it to HTML and added some tags. It was an interest, but long process. We always had the intentions of doing something with these headlines!”
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Juha-Matti Santala: A sign of a good tool is that you don’t notice it – one year with wallabag. “A year ago in June, 2025, when Mozilla shut down Pocket, I took a look at the alternatives and ended up choosing wallabag. I’ve been using it daily ever since.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/10/juha-matti-santala-a-sign-of-a-good-tool-is-that-you-dont-notice-it-one-year-with-wallabag/ -
Will Vincent: Please add an RSS Feed to Your Site. “As a co-writer of the Django News Newsletter for over 7 years, I am constantly looking for high-quality posts from people in the Django and broader Python communities. And yet, these days, it is harder than ever to find new content or even keep up with the efforts of people we’ve featured in the past. Social media is–how to say this […]
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How-To Geek: I replaced Google Keep with this free open-source app (and never looked back). “Keep is one of Google’s better products. It has a great UI, and you can capture notes with just one tap. Despite using it for years, however, I have wanted an alternative. So why bother replacing it? I can give you two reasons and a free, open-source app that does what Keep can’t.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/29/how-to-geek-i-replaced-google-keep-with-this-free-open-source-app-and-never-looked-back/ -
Lifehacker: Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2026. “It’s now the norm to check social media or the front pages of many different sites to see what’s new. But I think RSS still has a place in your life: Especially for those who don’t want to miss anything or have algorithms choosing what they read, it remains one of the best ways to navigate the internet.” Agreed! I have a whole […]
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Ben Werdmuller: Why RSS matters. “When people think about RSS, they most often associate it with the long-departed Google Reader — but it’s far from dead. From direct subscriptions to syndication into apps that aggregate and re-present content, RSS remains the standard for feeds. It’s the glue that holds the timely web together.” Lots of tools available at RSSGizmos.com!
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/13/ben-werdmuller-why-rss-matters/
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Engadget: Pocket Casts rolls out playlists, so users can sequence episodes of their favorite shows. “There are millions upon millions of podcast episodes out there and it can be tough to figure out what to listen to and when. The popular podcast service Pocket Casts is rolling out a playlists feature to help users make sense of it all.”
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MakeUseOf: This browser extension keeps every idea I highlight instantly searchable. “This Chrome extension lets you highlight text on any webpage and keeps all your highlights searchable and organized in one place. No more lost bookmarks. No more hunting through history. Everything you highlight becomes instantly findable. You can tag highlights, add notes, and search across your entire […]
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Spotted on Reddit: IncogFeedo. From the About page: “IncogFeedo is a lightweight, privacy-focused RSS reader for fast research on current events. It aggregates feeds from sources you choose and adds convenient research shortcuts: AI verification (Google’s AI mode), Reddit discussions, and Wikipedia search.” Well-featured, clearly not slapped together.
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NiemanLab: The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects . “…a Nieman Lab analysis shows that the Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news outlets’ homepages have plummeted in recent months. Between January 1 and May 15, 2025, the Wayback Machine shows a total of 1.2 million snapshots collected from 100 major news sites’ homepages. […]
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How-To Geek: 5 Pocket Alternatives That Can Replace the Now-Defunct “Read It Later” Service. “One of the most famous read-later apps, Pocket by Mozilla, shut down permanently in October. The app was known for its ease of use, sync, and interface, leaving many loyal users shifting to similar apps. There are many alternative read-later apps you can download and use, with many of them supporting […]
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How-To Geek: Google Is Switching Up Its Discover Feed. “Your Discover feed always gives you a healthy feed of news and articles—you might’ve even reached this very post through Discover. Now, though, it’s about to get a lot worse. In the coming weeks, users will begin to see posts from social media platforms like Instagram and X (formerly Twitter), as well as short-form videos from YouTube […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/19/how-to-geek-google-is-switching-up-its-discover-feed/
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Molly White: Curate your own newspaper with RSS. “Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read.” Really happy to see a giant article about RSS out there.
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/01/molly-white-curate-your-own-newspaper-with-rss/
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Calishat: Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader Updated and Now Available. “The Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader is a Google Sheets-based tool that lets you schedule your RSS feeds and give them expiration dates. I have used TOFR for monitoring breaking news topics over the short-term, scheduling feeds in advance for a known business-/stock- related deadline, and to ‘audition’ keywords I […]
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MakeUseOf: Sick of Too Many Tabs? These Simple Tricks Saved Me . “My web browsers used to look chaotic at best. A random website open in one tab, Google Docs in another, and perhaps a video to listen to while I worked with some extra tabs involving research pages. Eventually, I got fed up with working like this, and some simple tweaks changed everything.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/02/makeuseof-sick-of-too-many-tabs-these-simple-tricks-saved-me/
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How-To Geek: Why I Still Get My News and Alerts From a 25 Year Old Tool. “Catching up on the news means either dodging paywalls on traditional media sites, or wading through toxic comments on social media, right? Wrong: there’s another way. RSS has been keeping us informed for over two decades, and it’s as relevant today as ever.”
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ZDNet: How to set up your own article archiving service – and why I did (RIP, Pocket). “Mozilla killed Pocket, but your bookmarks don’t have to die. Here’s how to self-host ArchiveBox – with a little help from ChatGPT – and take ownership of your reading archive.”
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Alex Chan: Creating a static website for all my bookmarks. “It’s taken hundreds of hours to get all my bookmarks and saved web pages into this new site, and it’s taught me a lot about archiving and building the web. This post is the first of a four-part series about my bookmarks, and I’ll publish the rest of the series over the next three weeks.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/alex-chan-creating-a-static-website-for-all-my-bookmarks/
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MakeUseOf: I Tried 5 Google Chrome Bookmark Alternatives, and This Is My New Favorite. “Google Bookmarks shut down in 2021, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other options. I’ve tried different Google Bookmark alternatives and found a new favorite you will also love.” +1 for Raindrop.
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#photography #PhotoManagement #CuratingContent
The Personal Photo Curator: A New Profession is Born (PetaPixel)
https://petapixel.com/2022/11/06/the-personal-photo-curator-a-new-profession-is-born/
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ZDNet: How to collaborate on Google Keep lists and why you should - https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-collaborate-on-google-keep-lists-and-why-you-should/ #GoogleKeep #CuratingContent #OnlineCollaboration