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After using the Artcasting feature in FeedLand, I have mixed feelings about how it works because of the way some sites use the feature. Sometimes it’s not hugely bad, just mindless, like a feed that attaches a picture of a bunch of basketballs on every story about basketball. I don’t want that in my river.…

Thinking about WordPress this morning, APIs and feeds… This last year I’ve gotten caught up with WordPress, have been asking questions, and one of the best thing about this setup is that the doors have been open. I have great teachers who are encouraging me, and of course are experts in and proud of WordPress,…

New feature. When a feed item has an image enclosure, we include it, after the body of the item, but before the icons below the item. So far I’ve only tested it with the demo feed. Click this link to see for yourself. I took a screen shot because this is likely to change.

A few days ago, Frank Meeuwsen posted, on his blog via micro.blog, a challenge to show him our blogrolls.  I found it via Chuck Grimmett. Frank is a longtime user of my various bits of software, and his blogroll is really good. His blogroll is of course sourced in OPML. It became the standard for blogrolls…

A new version of the Artshow app that builds on Bluesky RSS 2.0 feeds. It’s also a FeedLand app, and a news reader that doesn’t look like a typical news reader, Proof of concept that there’s more to feed “reading” than we might think (podcasting is a form of feed reading that doesn’t look like a…

I’m going through the Project list and deciding which things have to be done before “shipping” and which can happen after we ship. I don’t want to rush to have to write docs when we have a user who is asking for a complicated and yet-undocumented feature. This happened the other day with Reading Lists.…

I just added a new REST call for the FeedLand server — getriverfromreadinglist. It takes one parameter, the URL of a reading list. It must be one of the reading lists the server knows about, someone must have already subscribed to it. It returns a river structure with items from the feeds in the list,…

FeedLand is where feeds, news and people mingle. Where it’s easy to find a feed from another user and add it to your list of feeds. And categorize each feed so it shows up in the places you want inside or outside of your FeedLand. It also allows you to share lists of feeds with…

I gave a flash talk about FeedLand at the 51 / DotOrg / Other Bets Division Meetup in Málaga, Spain. Here is a snapshot someone took of me with the slide explaining who Dave is for those who didn’t know. In the short talk I planted the seed of reading lists for Pocket Casts and…

1. Create a stylesheet, put it somewhere where it’s publicly accessible. 2. In the JavaScript console assign the URL of the stylesheet to localStorage.urlStartupStylesheet. 3. Reload FeedLand. Example Enter this in the JavaScript console where FeedLand is running. localStorage.urlStartupStylesheet = ‘urlofmystylesheet’