Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

November 14, 2013

BirdReader

Filed under: News,RSS — Patrick Durusau @ 3:49 pm

BirdReader by Glynn Bird.

From the webpage:

In March 2013, Google announced that Google Reader was to be closed. I used Google Reader every day so I set out to find a replacement. I started with other online offerings, but then I thought “I could build one”. So I created BirdReader which I have released to the world in its unpolished “alpha”.

BirdReader is designed to be installed on your own webserver or laptop, running Node.js. e.g.

  • import your old Google Reader subscriptions
  • fetches RSS every 5 minutes
  • web-based aggregated newsfeed
  • – mark articles as read
  • – delete articles without reading
  • – ‘star’ articles
  • – add a new feed
  • – sorted in newest-first order
  • – bootstrap-based, responsive layout
  • – tagging/untagging of feeds
  • – Twitter/Facebook sharing
  • – basic HTTP authentication (optional)
  • – filter read/unread/starred streams by tag
  • – filter read/unread/starred streams by feed
  • – full-text search (only works when using Cloudant as the CouchDB storage engine)
  • – icons for feeds and articles
  • – expand all
  • – browse-mode – go through unread articles one-by-one, full screen
  • API
  • – live stats via WebSockets (NEW!)

Not that you need another RSS reader but consider this an opportunity to create a topic map-based RSS reader.

You can subscribe to feeds or even searches of feeds.

But do you know of an RSS reader that:

  • maps authors across feeds?
  • maps subjects across feeds and produces histories of subjects?
  • maps relationships between authors and subjects?
  • dedupes aggregator content that appeared months ago but is re-dated to make it appear “new?”
  • etc.

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