From d00436ce061819d7d99c84a61bf71d084a28acd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Garry Ing Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 12:20:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] reader --- _notes/google-reader.md | 8 ++++++++ _notes/rss.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 _notes/google-reader.md diff --git a/_notes/google-reader.md b/_notes/google-reader.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..767de07 --- /dev/null +++ b/_notes/google-reader.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +--- +date: 2021-05-02 +status: 🌱 +--- + +> Google Reader was an [[RSS]]/Atom feed aggregator operated by Google. It was created in early 2005 by Google engineer Chris Wetherell and launched on October 7, 2005, through Google Labs. Google Reader grew in popularity to support a number of programs which used it as a platform for serving news and information to people. Google closed Google Reader on July 1, 2013, citing declining use. + + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_notes/rss.md b/_notes/rss.md index e951011..9aba3f4 100644 --- a/_notes/rss.md +++ b/_notes/rss.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Recent reporting and reflecting on the afterlives of RSS: "RSS is undead" "RSS d Partially convinced by the take that the current web is "the legacy of RSS, even if it’s not built on RSS" (Werbach, quoted from below): -> The first is a story about a broad vision for the web’s future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development. RSS was one of the standards that promised to deliver [a] syndicated future. ...And yet, two decades later, after the rise of social media and Google’s decision to shut down Google Reader, RSS appears to be a slowly dying technology, now used chiefly by podcasters, programmers with tech blogs, and the occasional journalist. +> The first is a story about a broad vision for the web’s future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development. RSS was one of the standards that promised to deliver [a] syndicated future. ...And yet, two decades later, after the rise of social media and Google’s decision to shut down [[Google Reader]], RSS appears to be a slowly dying technology, now used chiefly by podcasters, programmers with tech blogs, and the occasional journalist. > The fork happened [in 2000] after Dornfest announced a proposed RSS 1.0 specification and formed the RSS-DEV Working Group. RSS would fork again in 2003 [into Atom], when several developers frustrated with the bickering in the RSS community sought to create an entirely new format. After the introduction of Atom, there were three competing versions of RSS: Winer’s RSS 0.92 (updated to RSS 2.0 in 2002 and renamed “Really Simple Syndication”), the RSS-DEV Working Group’s RSS 1.0, and Atom. Today we mostly use RSS 2.0 and Atom. > Today, RSS is not dead. But neither is it anywhere near as popular as it once was... [The most pervasive explanation is] ... Social networks, just like RSS, provide a feed featuring all the latest news on the internet. Social networks took over from RSS because they were simply better feeds. Another theory is that RSS was always too geeky for regular people.