Links / Rss

• Phantom Obligation

  № 125

  Terry Godier on why RSS readers (still) look like email clients, and why that means the design has guilt built-in.

  He asks Brent Simmons, the designer of the first RSS reader, NetNewsWire, who says:

  The part I don’t understand and can’t explain is why RSS readers are still mostly following this UI. But every new RSS reader ought to consider not being yet another three-paned-aggregator. There are surely millions of users who might prefer a river of news or other paradigms. Why not have some fun and do something new, or at least different?

• Merging my RSS feeds

  № 100

  I feel bad for using the 100th post here to point your attention to something so meaningless, but I’d like to just make sure to get it out of the way: I’ve made some changes to the RSS feeds on this site. If you follow me via RSS, please read this post and, if you like, re-subscribe using this link.

  I’ve greatly enjoyed picking up the pace here, and look forward to publishing the next 100 posts. I hope you do too.

  Thank you for reading!