Dave Winer wrote a blog post back in 2014, What is a River of News aggregator? There, he listed the essential properties of a River of News aggregator:
What is a River of News aggregator?
If you host such a site in a public locations, a few more properties follow automatically:
You just dip your foot into the river every now and then, said Heraclitus. 🙂
My own implementation is Planet Jupiter.
#Jupiter
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See also: Fraidycat app and extension for various browsers.
– Alex Schroeder 2020-03-23 23:23 UTC
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A mix of shapes and sizes make it way easier to understand what’s going on, where you are and such.
It’s even to the point that I’ve taken to holding oddly shaped objects (like my own hand) next to a prose page when I’m reading a book. It just helps me keep my fluttering eyes focused.
– Sandra 2020-09-07 20:48 UTC
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True. I guess in this case we’re not talking about a book where I want just that and where I might use a finger or pen to hold my place, but a huge list where I want to skip thirty posts before reading anything. So I just want a few words of the headline, a few words of the beginning if I want more, a few more words perhaps, and then if it passed all these tests, I’ll click the link. I’m using the format because I skim so much instead of reading it all.
In the case of the RPG Planet, however, people who really want a different experience can always subscribe to the merged feed and they can read all the articles however they want.
– Alex 2020-09-07 21:08 UTC