The NetNewsWire perspective
Brent Simmons suggests fourteen things that users can do instead of giving him money, listed in no particular order. The first: “Write a blog instead of posting to Twitter or Facebook.”
Orange Crate Art
NetNewsWire
It’s fast, easy to figure out, and free. It has a long history, with a developer, Brent Simmons, who has a sense of cultural purpose and doesn’t even invite donations. Here is the app’s website.
Feed changing
I’m switching from FeedBurner to the standard Blogger feed. (Too many lags.)
Feed, me
FeedBurner is messed up.
FeedBurner e-mail subscriptions
If you’ve been reading via e-mail, all I can suggest, at least for now, is that you visit Orange Crate Art in person or subscribe via RSS. I hope you’ll do one or the other or both.
For RSS
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube — did you notice which platforms Russian election-subverters ignored? Blogger, Typepad, WordPress, none of which can be used to put “content” (as it’s called) in front of a captive audience.
RSS!
“Anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that’s been there all along but has often gone ignored.”
Feedly, ugh
Eight months without deleting an account! Ugh.
FeedBurner FeedBlitz FeedBurner
“I can’t see paying a monthly fee when I can get flaky numbers for free.”
Recently updated
The Old Reader might live on.
Life Without Reader
“Life Without Reader is my suggestion for greater engagement with those whom one reads online. I’d like to see it catch on.”
The Old Reader, about to disappear
The Old Reader, one of the more appealing substitutes for Google Reader, is closing the doors to most users.
Marco Arment on RSS
“RSS represents the antithesis of this new world: it’s completely open, decentralized, and owned by nobody, just like the web itself.”
Go Read, a Google Reader alternative
I like Go Read.
Feedly improvement via a userscript
The results aren’t perfect, but they’re a lot better than what Feedly now offers.
Feedly v. Feedly
“As I’m reminded every time I look at my posts, Feedly takes too many liberties with images. Images get relocated and resized, and when a post merely links to a YouTube clip, Feedly adds an image from that clip to its Magazine and Card Views.”
Feeding time
“If you are reading Orange Crate Art in Google Reader, you’d better choose a new reader before July 1, when Google shuts things down. Otherwise, we will be torn asunder posthaste.”
Feedly it is
Or ain’t. Not satisfactory, at least not now.
FeedBurner, broken
You know that something is seriously wrong when even the usually dormant FeedBurner Status Blog acknowledges the problem.