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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #curatingcontent, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/28/will-vincent-please-add-an-rss-feed-to-your-site/
  2. 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/
  3. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/lifehacker-why-everyone-should-still-use-an-rss-reader-in-2026/
  4. 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/

  5. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/26/engadget-pocket-casts-rolls-out-playlists-so-users-can-sequence-episodes-of-their-favorite-shows/

  6. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/03/makeuseof-this-browser-extension-keeps-every-idea-i-highlight-instantly-searchable/

  7. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/03/makeuseof-this-browser-extension-keeps-every-idea-i-highlight-instantly-searchable/

  8. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/03/makeuseof-this-browser-extension-keeps-every-idea-i-highlight-instantly-searchable/

  9. 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.

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/31/incogfeedo/

  10. 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. […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/23/niemanlab-the-wayback-machines-snapshots-of-news-homepages-plummet-after-a-breakdown-in-archiving-projects/

  11. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/13/how-to-geek-5-pocket-alternatives-that-can-replace-the-now-defunct-read-it-later-service/

  12. 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/

  13. 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/

  14. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/12/calishat-temporary-obsessions-rss-feed-reader-updated-and-now-available/

  15. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/12/calishat-temporary-obsessions-rss-feed-reader-updated-and-now-available/

  16. 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 […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/12/calishat-temporary-obsessions-rss-feed-reader-updated-and-now-available/

  17. 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/

  18. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/10/how-to-geek-why-i-still-get-my-news-and-alerts-from-a-25-year-old-tool/

  19. 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.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/zdnet-how-to-set-up-your-own-article-archiving-service-and-why-i-did-rip-pocket/

  20. 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/

  21. 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.

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/09/makeuseof-i-tried-5-google-chrome-bookmark-alternatives-and-this-is-my-new-favorite/