Mathew Ingram (Twitter)This might seem a little weird, but I'm trying to get back into using an RSS reader as an alternative to just relying on Twitter, so if you have any "weblogs" or sites you think I should add please hit me with them here -- odd, personal, insightful etc.
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) January 13, 2018
This year started with a small project I really like: Feeds for Journalists, by Dave Winer. The idea is that RSS is still a valid technology to get an effective and unbiased flow of news. As he puts it, after reading a tweet by Mathew Ingram: If you’re a journalist a...
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Jane Van Galen (Teaching and Learning on the Open Web)We talked in our group last week about the time that it requires to develop course websites and "open" assignments, and to make new tech function as it should when there may not be enough support, and when these sorts of investments may not be valued in faculty reviews.
I talked briefly about the "innovation" part is often simply building off the work of others, when so many faculty now share their work on the open web.
A great example of this just came through my Twitter feed. I have a column set up in Tweetdeck where I'm following the # Domains19 conference. With a Tweetdeck column, I can just glance or scroll for a minute between other things I'm doing, to see if anything looks interesting. People at this conference are working on open pedagogies, particularly via the Domains of Ones Own work we've talked about. Most sessions are being live-tweeted, with a rich trove of links.
One attendee Chris Aldrich, has created a Twitter list of past attendees at the conference and others who do work related that that presented at this meeting. I can skim this to find new people from whom to learn. I can follow them and then, as I have time, check their Twitter feeds for updates on what they're doing. If I don't find myself learning from these new follows, I just unfollow and move on.
And inevitably, over months and years, I'll find people who will generously invest in teaching me and others about the work they're doing, about why they're doing it, and about how that work is recieved by their students.
This is the open web I hope we're teaching our students about -- place of innovation, generosity, value-driven discourse and always, always, something new to learn.
Kevin Smokler (Kevin Smokler)Inspired by Matt Haughey’s public posting of the RSS Feeds he subscribes to, I’m doing the same (below).
What is RSS, you ask? A method to subscribe to what your favorite websites publish and have their updates all in a single place. Think of it as DVR for the Internet, food delivery instead of pickup except for the web. Podcasts would on the same technology and concept: Subscribe once, receive forever without asking again.
Jeremy Felt (jeremyfelt.com)I followed several new to me feeds today and then decided—why not share? There may be no other way to rediscover the social network that is blogging.
Warren 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.
@bix (micro.blog)I’ve started building a list of blogs and newsletters, although currently it’s just a subset of my full list of subscriptions. I’ll add more as I decide what I’m going to continue to follow longterm. The inclusion of newsletters is why it’s not a “blogroll”.
Ton Zijlstra (zylstra.org)After my recent posting where I asked people which RSS feeds they read, I received several responses. One of them is Peter’s. Like me he was publishing an OPML file of his feeds already. OPML is a machine readable format that most RSS readers will be able to import, so you can subscribe to blogs I...
