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Read Blog Diet: A Starter List For Your RSS Reader by Warren EllisWarren Ellis (WARREN ELLIS LTD)
People keep asking me where I find stuff, or where to start with an RSS reader. I exported my subscruptions, and damn, there are a LOT of dead blogs out there. Here is a selection of blogs from the list of ones I think are still active. Like I say, it’s just a bit of my active subscriptions list, but maybe you’ll find something you want to follow.
Thanks Warren for curating an interesting list here. I recognize a handful of great sites, including ribbon farm which makes the list twice. Can’t wait to take a look at some of the ones I don’t follow regularly. I do wish there was an OPML version of the list I could subscribe to though.

hat tip: Kicks Condor, who coincidentally highlighted this list in his most recent HREFHUNT post (2019-11-11). Kudos to Kicks for also being included in the list itself!

Read HrefHunt! by Kicks CondorKicks Condor (Kicks Condor)
UPDATED, 11 Nov 2019. Okay, this month’s links are culled from a handful of little threads here and there. @pjrvs’ thread asking: “who has the best personal website/blog?” (I skipped the popular ones or those I’d already discovered.) HN thread, same question. ‘The Internet of creation di...
I’m glad Kicks circled back to this, there’s always some fun and interesting material hiding within the list.
Read Who sponsors Drupal development? (2018-2019 edition) by Dries BuytaertDries Buytaert (dri.es)
An in-depth analysis of how Drupal's development was sponsored between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.
I love the depth and reflection Dries puts into this report. Having recently watched the State of the Word for WordPress, I wonder if WordPress publishes these sorts of numbers and analysis? Could they in the future?
Read RIP The Curator's Code by Jeremy Cherfas (jeremycherfas.net)
Folksonomy is all very well, but my own set of tags leaves a lot to be desired. I'm forever giving things a tag and thinking I'll remember it and then discovering that not only do I not remember the tag, but also that the tag applies only to a single item, neither of which is very helpful. So I reso...
Interesting I came across this via a Google search for Curator’s Code, and lo, and behold! There is my friend Jeremy holding forth with some wisdom on the topic. I’m not sure how I may have missed his having written it the first time around.
Read curator's ǝpoɔ by Maria Popova (curatorscode.org (via web.archive.org))

Attributing your source of discovery should never obscure attributing the creator or originator of the content. For instance, if you repost a compelling poster you found on your favorite design blog, first credit the person who designed the poster, and then attribute discovery to the design blog that brought it to your attention.

USE THE UNICODES–OR DON’T

We’ve proposed two unicode characters for attributing. They’re clean and short, and they help spread the message of The Curator’s Code itself, but they are not the only way to attribute. You can always use words like “via,” or simply hyperlink to your source — the link is the important part.

ᔥ VS. ↬

Part of what The Curator’s Code aspires to do is evolve our thinking about the levels of attribution. “Via” ᔥ tends to denote a direct repost — something you found elsewhere and shared with your audience with little modification or elaboration. “HT” ↬ tends to stand for indirect discovery — something for which you got the idea at your source, but modified or elaborated on significantly when sharing with your audience.

I like the general idea of this website, and if nothing else the definitions. I’ve always wanted a plugin or functionality on my website for doing this more quickly. Sadly the Curator’s Code site is dead and with it the bookmarklet.

and of course, I’ll give this the obligatory:
[ᔥ IndieWeb chat]

Read The Crown: Was journalist John Armstrong real? Did he really interview Princess Alice? (Express.co.uk)
THE CROWN season 3 has landed on Netflix now with 10 more episodes for fans to lap up. The show depicts an interview between Irish journalist John Armstrong and Princess Alice of Green and Denmark. But was the newspaper reporter real and did he really speak to Prince Philip’s mother?
Read a post by Maxwell Josyln (maxwelljoslyn.com)
Update: Material below the (old) marker is still wrong. I’m going to go live in a cave and never touch a computer again, but before I pack my bags, here’s the real scoop. A person mention is what it’s called when you link to someone’s homepage as a way of mentioning them in post content. Bec...
Read EasieRSVP by gRegor MorrillgRegor Morrill (gregorlove.com)
Since I’m co-organizing a meetup soon, I have been thinking about RSVPs. My event posts support indieweb RSVPs, but I would like to make it easier for a wider audience. One thought I had: since I am using Bridgy to send public Twitter replies back to my site, I could do some basic text parsing and...
I love the idea for allowing people to easily RSVP via Twitter.
Read Reproductions of Public Domain Works Should Remain in the Public Domain (Creative Commons)
It has come to the attention of Creative Commons that there is an increased use of CC licenses by cultural heritage institutions on photographic reproductions and 3D scans of objects such as sculptures, busts, engravings, and inscriptions, among others, that are indisputably in the public domain wor...
Read Subscriptions are attention, but what about blogrolls? by Leslie Michael OrchardLeslie Michael Orchard (decafbad.com)
Ah hah. Here's a use case where I agree OPML has undeniably become king: Exporting and importing feed aggregator subscriptions. Because Radio UserLand was the first aggregator to really take off—and because OPML is Radio's lingua franca, any new aggregators have needed to speak OPML to facilitate migration. It grew from there, with nearly every aggregator supporting some basic form of OPML import/export for subscription lists. OPML has won the "feed subscription list format war" before there was ever a notion that there might be such a war.