Many, many, blog posts by Alex Kessinger (frequent inventor of words). on Rumproarious

Instant articles are cool.

PPK is on a tear.

The words full stack will quickly be overburdened, but for now they represents an ideal.

Taken by a co-worker when App.net was still picplz.

Yesterday we got a look into how new news organization are working in a technical sense1.

Lark is a python library that provides a generic method for transforming a HTTP request into a redis command.

Feedbin.me has released the code that runs the service as open source, checkout out the Github.

Let’s say that there are only 1 million Google Reader users.

I have been threatening to do this for a while, and now I have.

The Sopranos is a story about a man that happens to be set in the world of organized crime.

Last week multiple signs started to appear that point to the fact that Facebook might be prepping a news reader.

Discovery is a pretty broad activity for one tool, but the idea is simple.

Juxtaposition is a technique that gets used quite often without anyone noticing.

Now that we covered context, I think it’s important to talk about motivation.

Sync is key for feed readers got picked up by Dave Winer on Twitter here is what he had to say: “Sync Is Key For Feed Readers (If so, then make web apps, and you’re done). http://4fj.r2.ly/" — @davewiner And then Peter Rojas responded: “@davewiner I need…

I understand that I am innately drawn to people talking about RSS readers.

Sync could simply be explained as the process of making everything the same in multiple places.

Growing up I was told that I had a learning disability.

David Pogue wrote a piece yesterday about Google reader.

Websites place content within a context of their choosing.

I don’t think the revival of readers will happen because one person made it happen.

I recently wrote about how large the feed reading ecosystem could be.

Clearly, the market for feed readers is in transition.

I am currently researching this question, but if you know the answer, or even if you think you know the answer.

Brent Simmons created a mailing list to talk about any new potential RSS syncing services.

Whenever there are big changes to Google Reader Chris Wetherell usually has something insightful to say.

At App.net we collect a metric ton of stats.

Do not feel guilty for not reading the tidal wave of information that piles up on your door everyday.

Markdown like RSS is one of those things that has fundamentally changed my relationship with the way that I work.

At PicPlz we built a hybrid mobile app.

I have been standards spelunking recently.

The new aesthetic sat in my overflow folder for a while.

I have had a fun few days processing the input I have recived about RSS needs better PR.

I had a short twitter conversation with Dave Winer yesterday about my blog post, RSS needs better PR.

RSS is in a bad state and it’s possibly in danger.

So, it happened.

There have been some bigger names weighing in on the coming Reader changes.

Google Reader is changing, and that leaves a door open for a competitor.

I am going to leave the breakdown of weighty subjects to other people, and hopefully I am biting off a small chunk of this pie, but I want to try my hand at figuring out why something is so good.

I saw Alexis Madrigal talking about using RSS on twitter today.

I gave a talk at the jQuery conference on sunday.

I recently spent some time getting to know backbone.js.

On occasion my blog posts receive outside attention, like when a piece get’s featured on a more popular website.

When I read about the death of RSS, I laugh, but I think the point is we need a new platform to consume RSS.

Last night it occurred to me, I might never use PHP in a serious manner ever again.

If you are interested at all in what is happing to curation you should read this well-researched article by Aaron Cope.

I have spent the last 3 years, or so, working at Yahoo!

I have been really impressed with the coverage of the javascript community over at DailyJS.

If you haven’t checked out anything from Jason Santa Maria, go check his blog out.

HTML5 is a loaded term that covers a range of ideas, but here is an attempt to explain it.