Robin Rendle › Newsletters
A rant from Robin. I share his frustration and agree with his observations.
I wonder how we can get the best of both worlds here: the ease of publishing newsletters, with all the beauty and archivability of websites.
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About Feeds | Getting Started guide to web feeds/RSS
Matt made this website to explain RSS to people who are as-ye unfamilar with it.
Notifier — Convert content sources to RSS feeds
A service that—amongst other things—allows you to read newsletters in your RSS reader.
Brendan Dawes - Adobe Alternatives
Brendan describes the software he’s using to get away from Adobe’s mafia business model.
Web Push Notifications Demo | Microsoft Edge Demos
Push notifications explained using astrology. But don’t worry, there’s also some code, just in case you prefer your explanations to also include models that actually work.
Shadow is now Adobe Edge Inspect | Adobe Edge Inspect Team Blog
Oh, dear. Adobe Shadow gets a new name and a hefty price tag. Yesterday it was free. Today it is $119.88 per year. It’s useful but it’s not that useful.
So, lazy web, who’s working on an open-source alternative?
Last.fm – the Blog · Free the Music
"As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website."
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site - New York Times
Excellent news from the New York Times: no more charging for content. Finally, I can link to NYT articles from blog posts (and del.icio.us).
Ma.gnolia Blog: JSON, HTML, and Microformats. Oh, My!
Magnolia is providing microformat feeds: simple HTML documents marked up with xFolk, hReview or hAtom. It's basically a simple sort of API. Very nice.