Feeding

Simone, on their website Minutes to Midnight, wrote about two shortcomings they see with RSS readers today. One of which was that their user experience creates the effect of a task list with articles to complete. Sound familiar?

Simone then looks at fraidycat an RSS web extension used to follow people. Reading an article takes you to authors website and the there isn't a feed but a list of recently active writers. The concept looks interesting, but the downside is that the extension is no longer actively maintained.

The second reader Simone came across was from Terry Godier, who coined the term phantom obligation. I've seen this concept come up a number of times recently so I've included a new tag to connect those links here.