#informationtrapping — Public Fediverse posts

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 […]

Calishat: Digging Out From The Deluge of AI News And Turning It Into Another Newsletter. “For the last few months assembling ResearchBuzz has been increasingly frustrating. AI news was crowding out most of the other categories and I felt like the newsletter itself was getting much too AI-heavy. Things finally came to a head when I found myself with a 6200-item RSS backlog and 50 articles in my […]

Calishat: Digging Out From The Deluge of AI News And Turning It Into Another Newsletter. “For the last few months assembling ResearchBuzz has been increasingly frustrating. AI news was crowding out most of the other categories and I felt like the newsletter itself was getting much too AI-heavy. Things finally came to a head when I found myself with a 6200-item RSS backlog and 50 articles in my […]

Calishat: Digging Out From The Deluge of AI News And Turning It Into Another Newsletter. “For the last few months assembling ResearchBuzz has been increasingly frustrating. AI news was crowding out most of the other categories and I felt like the newsletter itself was getting much too AI-heavy. Things finally came to a head when I found myself with a 6200-item RSS backlog and 50 articles in my […]

Calishat: Digging Out From The Deluge of AI News And Turning It Into Another Newsletter. “For the last few months assembling ResearchBuzz has been increasingly frustrating. AI news was crowding out most of the other categories and I felt like the newsletter itself was getting much too AI-heavy. Things finally came to a head when I found myself with a 6200-item RSS backlog and 50 articles in my […]

Calishat: Digging Out From The Deluge of AI News And Turning It Into Another Newsletter. “For the last few months assembling ResearchBuzz has been increasingly frustrating. AI news was crowding out most of the other categories and I felt like the newsletter itself was getting much too AI-heavy. Things finally came to a head when I found myself with a 6200-item RSS backlog and 50 articles in my […]

Lifehacker: You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader. “You may know that Reddit can be a treasure trove of useful information and opinion, and that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a clean and straightforward way to keep up with what’s happening on the web—but you might not be aware that you can combine both Reddit and RSS in numerous ways.”

Lifehacker: You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader. “You may know that Reddit can be a treasure trove of useful information and opinion, and that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a clean and straightforward way to keep up with what’s happening on the web—but you might not be aware that you can combine both Reddit and RSS in numerous ways.”

Lifehacker: You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader. “You may know that Reddit can be a treasure trove of useful information and opinion, and that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a clean and straightforward way to keep up with what’s happening on the web—but you might not be aware that you can combine both Reddit and RSS in numerous ways.”

Lifehacker: You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader. “You may know that Reddit can be a treasure trove of useful information and opinion, and that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a clean and straightforward way to keep up with what’s happening on the web—but you might not be aware that you can combine both Reddit and RSS in numerous ways.”

Lifehacker: You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader. “You may know that Reddit can be a treasure trove of useful information and opinion, and that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a clean and straightforward way to keep up with what’s happening on the web—but you might not be aware that you can combine both Reddit and RSS in numerous ways.”

The Register: RSS dulls the pain of the modern web . “Last week, Caroline Crampton’s blog post, The View from RSS really caught our attention, helped by its subtitle: What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds. We were not the only ones who it grabbed: at the weekend, Cory Doctorow also picked up on it in a post called The web is bearable with RSS.” Remember, your pal Cal has […]

The Register: RSS dulls the pain of the modern web . “Last week, Caroline Crampton’s blog post, The View from RSS really caught our attention, helped by its subtitle: What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds. We were not the only ones who it grabbed: at the weekend, Cory Doctorow also picked up on it in a post called The web is bearable with RSS.” Remember, your pal Cal has […]

The Register: RSS dulls the pain of the modern web . “Last week, Caroline Crampton’s blog post, The View from RSS really caught our attention, helped by its subtitle: What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds. We were not the only ones who it grabbed: at the weekend, Cory Doctorow also picked up on it in a post called The web is bearable with RSS.” Remember, your pal Cal has […]

The Register: RSS dulls the pain of the modern web . “Last week, Caroline Crampton’s blog post, The View from RSS really caught our attention, helped by its subtitle: What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds. We were not the only ones who it grabbed: at the weekend, Cory Doctorow also picked up on it in a post called The web is bearable with RSS.” Remember, your pal Cal has […]

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/

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/

Brought to my attention by Lily Ray on LinkedIn: Alertmouse. From the About page: “We make alerts. Really. That’s our whole thing. We’re not trying to upsell you. We don’t have a sales team. We’re just here to show who’s talking about you, make pretty graphs for your client/team/boss, and classify mentions so you can take smart next steps.” As always the pricing is a nightmare for […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/30/alertmouse/

Brought to my attention by Lily Ray on LinkedIn: Alertmouse. From the About page: “We make alerts. Really. That’s our whole thing. We’re not trying to upsell you. We don’t have a sales team. We’re just here to show who’s talking about you, make pretty graphs for your client/team/boss, and classify mentions so you can take smart next steps.” As always the pricing is a nightmare for […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/30/alertmouse/

Brought to my attention by Lily Ray on LinkedIn: Alertmouse. From the About page: “We make alerts. Really. That’s our whole thing. We’re not trying to upsell you. We don’t have a sales team. We’re just here to show who’s talking about you, make pretty graphs for your client/team/boss, and classify mentions so you can take smart next steps.” As always the pricing is a nightmare for […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/30/alertmouse/

MakeUseOf: I didn’t know Excel could do this with live data. “Excel is great for organizing data. But if you need information that changes constantly—like stock prices, weather updates, or cryptocurrency rates, you don’t have to copy numbers from websites every time they change. Luckily, Excel has two built-in functions, WEBSERVICE and FILTERXML, that can pull live data directly from the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/17/makeuseof-i-didnt-know-excel-could-do-this-with-live-data/

MakeUseOf: I didn’t know Excel could do this with live data. “Excel is great for organizing data. But if you need information that changes constantly—like stock prices, weather updates, or cryptocurrency rates, you don’t have to copy numbers from websites every time they change. Luckily, Excel has two built-in functions, WEBSERVICE and FILTERXML, that can pull live data directly from the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/17/makeuseof-i-didnt-know-excel-could-do-this-with-live-data/

MakeUseOf: I didn’t know Excel could do this with live data. “Excel is great for organizing data. But if you need information that changes constantly—like stock prices, weather updates, or cryptocurrency rates, you don’t have to copy numbers from websites every time they change. Luckily, Excel has two built-in functions, WEBSERVICE and FILTERXML, that can pull live data directly from the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/17/makeuseof-i-didnt-know-excel-could-do-this-with-live-data/

Calishat: No Kings TV Returns With Updates. “No Kings TV is an easy way to browse news about the No Kings protests this weekend across 120 sources in 21 US Metro areas. Now with Mastodon hashtags!”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/15/calishat-no-kings-tv-returns-with-updates/

Calishat: RSSForager — RSS Feed Discovery Featuring WordPress. “This week I redesigned RSS Gizmos and added a new tool, RSSForager, which is a WordPress-assisted RSS feed discovery tool. After all, what’s the good of RSS feeds if you can’t find any you want in your feed reader? In this article I’m going to show you how RSSForager works and how you can use it to find useful RSS feeds. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/01/calishat-rssforager-rss-feed-discovery-featuring-wordpress/

David Bushell: Croissant RSS Beta is Live! . “Croissant is an RSS reader I designed for myself. It might not be for you, but you’re welcome to try it and provide feedback.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/03/david-bushell-croissant-rss-beta-is-live/

David Bushell: Croissant RSS Beta is Live! . “Croissant is an RSS reader I designed for myself. It might not be for you, but you’re welcome to try it and provide feedback.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/03/david-bushell-croissant-rss-beta-is-live/

David Bushell: Croissant RSS Beta is Live! . “Croissant is an RSS reader I designed for myself. It might not be for you, but you’re welcome to try it and provide feedback.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/03/david-bushell-croissant-rss-beta-is-live/

VerbaMea: About Tag Push . This is for Mastodon. “The concept is simple…. Follow any of the tag accounts, which corresponds to a hashtag, and you will get copies of posts as they appear around the fediverse, straight to your own timeline. We’re still testing, and growing. Look at the list below for the tags we are sniffing out and pushing onwards.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/verbamea-about-tag-push/

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/

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/

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/

Calishat: ResearchBuzz Firehose Turns 10. “I started ResearchBuzz in 1998 after finishing the 2nd edition of Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research. As time went by I started feeling the lack of organization. I was linking to and looking at lots and lots of resources, but I was posting them in aggregate newsletters which made specific resources tough to find. I spent some time thinking […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/22/calishat-researchbuzz-firehose-turns-10/

Andre Garzia: RSS doesn’t necessarily means firehose. “Was reading Hacker News today and saw this very interesting post Reading RSS content is a skilled activity which raises some really interesting points about feed reading and how much effort one should put into making their experience fit what they want. The following discussion on Hacker News is full of people commenting how their feed […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/andre-garzia-rss-doesnt-necessarily-means-firehose/

Calishat: VibesMasto Gets an Overhaul and a Web Version. “Saturday I dug out the VibesMasto News Monitor so I could monitor news about the protests around the country. It was very useful but it also made me cringe. I first made this tool about two years ago when I knew a lot less about JavaScript, and its code is CRUSTY. Uncrusting it became yesterday’s priority. Now there’s a overhauled […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/21/calishat-vibesmasto-gets-an-overhaul-and-a-web-version/