RSS, a day

[karlcow]

I was reading the piece about RSS Rethink. Something in there:

Subscribe to the nightly email. Read it from top to bottom once a day, instead of in fragments published through the day.

I'm not subscribed to the nightly email, but this is the way I manage my feed. aka one entry a day which collects everything I have written during the day, links I have found etc. entry does not have to reflect the writing process. It's possible to generate the rss entry automatically at the end of the day and aggregating everything which was written.

And honestly it's even less noisy for people, than multiple entries. Maybe some people prefer some atomic feed and some prefer an aggregate.

But be email nightly or RSS a day, it's just the transport which changes? Or is there something else? I'm curious. Thinking out loud The email has the benefits to be everywhere… almost… younger generations have a tendency to veer away from it.

also loosely related it reminded me of rss2imap

[notabene]

Quoting @karlcow

But be email nightly or RSS a day, it's just the transport which changes? Or is there something else? I'm curious.

Maybe it's the way we consume it, also.

I'm prone to leaving RSS in a heap in my reader (liferea) for months, but it's a bit more of an anguish to have emails pile up in my inbox (and I'm not doing filters because Thunderbird + Roundcube + K9-mail would make it difficult, somehow).

Then all of a sudden I binge-read a hundred or so entries. My mind goes something like: email calls for a response or action, RSS calls for a static read (and, sometimes, a reaction article, but not so often).

(Thinking out loud.)

[karlcow]

The nightly email is available as an RSS feed. However I'm sure it's going to look pretty awful because, unlike email, RSS readers don't allow us to include styles. I could of course add the style definitions to the source namespace, where I've put my customizations. If you're an RSS user, give it a try and let me know. — http://scripting.com/2020/01/22.html#a223957

http://scripting.com/rssNightly.xml

So let's see.

This is cool! 🚀 🎉 🎈

Thanks!

[karlcow]

The compact feeling could be solved with s/<div class='divSingularItem'/<p class='divSingularItem'/ but it works for me as-is.

[andyhat]

I use Newsblur as my RSS reader, which has the option to display entries in "Story" mode. Looks pretty good with your nightly feed:

Newsblur also lets me forward in email newsletters so I can view them along with all my RSS feeds, and it lets me pull in twitter feeds, too, even if twitter doesn't support RSS anymore. (It also handles stories without titles just fine).

And, yes, I do have way too many unread stories to read :)