Ryan Sholin » feeds http://ryansholin.com The future of news. And more. No funny stuff. Thu, 24 May 2012 18:54:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 2006-2007 ryansholin@gmail.com (Ryan Sholin) ryansholin@gmail.com (Ryan Sholin) http://www.ryansholin.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com 144 144 Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education. Ryan Sholin Ryan Sholin ryansholin@gmail.com no no Introducing Homer: The Blogware-agnostic Feed-based Homepage Creator for the ‘News Blob’ – Alexander Shaw http://ryansholin.com/2010/03/09/introducing-homer-the-blogware-agnostic-feed-based-homepage-creator-for-the-news-blob-alexander-shaw/ http://ryansholin.com/2010/03/09/introducing-homer-the-blogware-agnostic-feed-based-homepage-creator-for-the-news-blob-alexander-shaw/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:17:42 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2010/03/09/introducing-homer-the-blogware-agnostic-feed-based-homepage-creator-for-the-news-blob-alexander-shaw/ So this is a Ruby-powered news aggregator publishing system. Meaning, it makes it easy to curate individual items from the feeds you tell it to watch. Add items to slots on a homepage, or topic page, for example, and it becomes a powerful aggregation publishing system.

Introducing Homer: The Blogware-agnostic Feed-based Homepage Creator for the ‘News Blob’ – Alexander Shaw

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2010/03/09/introducing-homer-the-blogware-agnostic-feed-based-homepage-creator-for-the-news-blob-alexander-shaw/feed/ 0 When all I have left is my Fun folder, I win http://ryansholin.com/2010/03/06/when-all-i-have-left-is-my-fun-folder-i-win/ http://ryansholin.com/2010/03/06/when-all-i-have-left-is-my-fun-folder-i-win/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:19:21 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/?p=1875 If you don’t use Google Reader or Bloglines or some other feed reader, you can stop reading now.

OK, still here?

Months ago, after at least a couple years of just throwing all my feeds in Google Reader and sorting by newest, reading from the top down and marking all as read when I felt full of information or short on time, I went back to folders.

Back to the folders with the sort of labels I used when I first started with Bloglines in 2005, which predated my use of Newsgator, which predated the existence of the great and powerful, albeit Buzz-infected as of late, Google Reader.

Labels like “Media.” And “Technology.” Pretty vague stuff.

But they do the job — I check “Media” often to make sure I’m not missing anything, although the 2,000+ people I follow on Twitter rarely let news of that sort slip by them. And “Technology” is my dumping ground for TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and the like, which are more about Technology News than the technology itself. And I do enjoy those subscriptions, because it’s not the item that’s been retweeted 1,600 times that I’m interested in. (If it was, I’d subscribe to Mashable, eh?) But rather, it’s the activity on the edges of startups and green tech and Web applications that interest me most. So I keep the subscriptions, skip the obvious Google/Microsoft/Facebook/Twitter commodity news, and try to focus my attention on the smaller bits of detail emerging about newer companies, business models, and indeed, the hardware and software involved.

Work-related feeds are in another folder, and some stray ego searches and other research projects land in something I opaquely label “Searches,” the ingredients of which might change week-to-week as I move among projects, side projects, and side projects of side projects pretty freely.

But my favorite folder is labeled “Fun.”

Wait, don’t judge me yet.

It’s not for the Daily What or whatever your favorite Tumbly source of single-serving-site-of-the-day might be this season (I have Tumblr for that!), but it’s for the feeds full of ideas that I don’t need, but I want. Grown-ups with Ph.D.s like to use the word “serendipity” in this paragraph.

There’s the obvious, linkblogs that bring me more “Fun” fodder, like Fimoculous and Kottke, and slightly less obvious (or verbose) streams like Coudal’s Fresh Signals.

And there’s the Snarkmarkets of the world and the places they send me to, like HiloBrow, BldgBlog, and there’s This Recording, which I can’t remember how I found the first time.

There are the comics, guilty pleasure Dilbert and all, of course xkcd and indexed. These are probably the most “fun” things in the folder, rarely leading to anything but laughter and a vague desire for more geeky t-shirts.

There’s The Awl, which I’ve really been enjoying lately as a source of original amusement as well as links to Actual News About The World But Mostly New York City. Following NYC news 8.5 years after I moved out has a ring of Schadenfreude, to it, I know, but it feels like a window into some parallel universe I might have lived in had things happened differently in 2001.

So the game I play these days in Google Reader is twofold:

  1. What redundant feed about the news business can I unsubscribe to today?
  2. What feed about the weird possible presents and futures I haven’t fully explored can I subscribe to today?

When all I have left is my Fun folder, I win the game.

Here’s a Google Reader bundle with a selection of feeds from my Fun folder. I’m not going to give them all away in that bundle, but if you follow half the feeds in that bunch, they’ll lead you in the direction of more of whatever shiny niche catches your eye.

Enjoy.

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2008/03/03/why-full-text-feeds-actually-increase-page-views-techdirt/feed/ 0 Scobleization plus three years http://ryansholin.com/2008/02/12/scobleization-plus-three-years/ http://ryansholin.com/2008/02/12/scobleization-plus-three-years/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:07:24 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://www.ryansholin.com/2008/02/12/scobleization-plus-three-years/ Three years and two days ago, I got Scobleized.

The highlight of Robert’s informal talk was when he plugged his tablet into the projector in a packed room at the SJSU/MLK library and showed us his aggregator.

It was Bloglines at the time, not that it mattered.

I was blown away by the amount of information — and the quality — that Scoble’s 1200 or so subscriptions provided.

I had started reading a few blogs, and I was probably still using Firefox Live Bookmarks to track them.

By the end of the semester there were more than 200 feeds in my Bloglines account.

That was three years ago, at the very beginning of my New Media / blogging / future-of-newspapers adventures.

Another thing that sticks in my mind that day was Robert’s first question to a newsroom full of “reporting and editing” majors, something along the lines of “How many of you think you’ll be working for a newspaper in 5 or 10 years?”

He lost his audience when he told the roomful of undergraduates with their hands raised that they were wrong, and that they would be working for some other sort of online news organization, or as individual bloggers, but not certainly not in paper- and ink-based news.

Didn’t lose me, though.

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2007/09/20/google-shared-stuff/feed/ 0 Where my shared Google Reader items end up http://ryansholin.com/2007/08/07/where-my-shared-google-reader-items-end-up/ http://ryansholin.com/2007/08/07/where-my-shared-google-reader-items-end-up/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:30:03 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2007/08/07/where-my-shared-google-reader-items-end-up/ I’ll integrate this linkblog into the ‘Other News’ feed that runs down the right rail of my blog pages when I have time. Which might be, like, 2009 at this rate.

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Badger : Badge Any RSS Feed With Yahoo! Pipes – Brewster’s Field Guide to Web 2.666

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2007/02/17/badger-badge-any-rss-feed-with-yahoo-pipes-brewsters-field-guide-to-web-2-666/feed/ 0 5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes – franticindustries. http://ryansholin.com/2007/02/14/5-cool-ways-to-use-yahoo-pipes-franticindustries/ http://ryansholin.com/2007/02/14/5-cool-ways-to-use-yahoo-pipes-franticindustries/#comments Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:16:06 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2007/02/14/5-cool-ways-to-use-yahoo-pipes-franticindustries/ More explorations of the new pipes. Lots of potential here, little time to toy with it…

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