This piece was initially published on Medium. I’m resharing here, for when Medium will go away… We all know that RSS and openness are key to the web’s resilience and independence, yet the RSS ecosystem is still shrinking. It’s because of us…
The Rise and Demise of RSS (Old Version)
An unabridged history of RSS' triumphs and failures.
It's Time For an RSS Revival
After years of letting algorithms make up our minds for us, the time is right to go back to basics.
RSS is undead | TechCrunch
RSS died. Whether you blame Feedburner, or Google Reader, or Digg Reader last month, or any number of other product failures over the years, the humble
Publishers fearing Facebook dependency: fight for your future, reinvent RSS.
Right now Facebook accounts for over 40% of all traffic for U.S. news organizations, making many dependent on the social network for…
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds
Learn how one of the biggest tech companies played a major role in the reason many people stopped using RSS feeds
It's time to rebuild the web
The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.
Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
We shouldn't wait for Medium
Medium has to create a miracle in the economics of publishing. But the users of Medium just want an easy and elegant blogging system. It doesn't seem like a match, long-term.
Bluesky & Open Social Media Tech
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
What is Standard.Site? Next gen RSS | HILARY BAUMANN
Think of this a bit like: advanced RSS where publishers can see number of subscribers a way to subscribe without cluttering your email inbox and also find the blogs of the people you already follow online. The subscriptions are tied to your Atmosphere account (your Bluesky account.) a schema or…
The year we wanted the internet to be smaller
Why tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017
