Posts tagged “rss”

RSS never solved its business model problem: publishers give away content for free with no compensation. Feedburner failed, AdSense for Feeds failed, and now Google Reader is dead. Tumblr's reblogging model works better for everyone: publishers get viral distribution, readers get a social feed that surfaces the best content naturally.

Fixed scratchpad links in the RSS feed and got Planet Afterlife working again, though it's a temporary fix that will eventually break.

Built a simple iPhone site and finally added the long-requested RSS feed that mixes in the scratchpad. Also made RSS feeds more visible and added autodiscovery.

I rebuilt Afterlife using CakePHP as a starter project, and the result is seldo.net, now in beta. It's faster, more robust, and comes with four feed channels. Per-user feeds and social features are coming. It's also laughably insecure right now, so please don't break it.

Fixed Planet Afterlife update delays caused by Planet Seldo's build time. Updates now happen every 15 minutes, and my web host has resolved some additional issues that were getting in the way.

Minor site upgrades: RSS feeds, per-entry comments, permalinks, and finally killed that annoying popup.

Finally launched my linklog (borrowed style from Tom who borrowed it from Kottke) and got my RSS feed working. Also fixed the end-of-month bug. Comments broke, then got fixed too.

Been exploring design sites and RSS readers. Got a good laugh from a Google rebrand showing "Britney Spears" as a search query, captioned "the sum of all human knowledge at your fingertips." Also rewatching Daria, which holds up.