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A Month on my RSS Drip

My Tiny Tiny RSS installation.

My Tiny Tiny RSS installation.

As part of the Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative this spring, I began to explore the world of RSS feeds.  Perhaps my favorite part of the DoOOFI was its focus on managing incoming flows of digital information.  The immersive sense of information overload was always the hardest part of living a digitally-engaged scholarly life for me, and in our group we discussed lots of technological and cognitive strategies for managing that information flow to make it useful rather than overwhelming.  As a part of this discussion, I installed Tiny Tiny RSS, an open source RSS reader, on a partition of my domain.  I’ve been using TTRSS for about a month now, and I have some observations about RSS as a technology for managing your digital life.   Read more

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