‘First’ there was Today … and then there was ‘Current’ .. and downloaded both today - despite already using Reeder and NetNewsWire from @brentsimmons and Feedland from @dave and Readwise (though not quite the same I agree.) - and let’s not forget the next one coming in from @manton
Exporting and importing OPML files twixt them all is a fun way to spend an afternoon - but wouldn’t it be so much easier if I just had a single OPML file that all the apps talked to?
Is that too hard?
This seems to be on pace with my recent conclusions following reading that (I paraphrase - my bold) ..
The market intelligence market was valued at USD 12.1 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach USD 21.4 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 8.2% The market is consolidating around value-add - not just raw data, but curated, contextualised intelligence delivered into existing workflows.
That’s exactly right. It’s like SAAS horizontal plays losing to highly focussed vertical plays. The same is happening with ‘information and intelligence’. Thats what we are doing.
Anybody exploring 🔗 Birdy Chat?
We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”.
💬 Martin Fowler
Not a new message - I have been reading it over and over for a long time - even before ‘AI’.
Why? Because it is really about the increased fractionalisation of work - so that the tech overlords can better harvest human skills in order to codify, automate and ‘remove the human from the loop’.
It’s why when asked what I ‘specialise’ in - I have answered - for years …
I am the space between the boxes on the organisation chart.
@canion has written one of handful of posts reviewing two new RSS reeders out in the past week.
Downloaded both today and it is clear that they are very different to the usual.
Muscle memory - and even how I think about my news feed is going to have to be flat-earthed.
🔗 Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks
If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive, you incentivize your newsroom to create clickbait. You’re ensuring that you have to compete for views for every single article, instead of building a direct relationship with a recurring member who is buying your product because they think it’s worth it overall.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
I would go further.
It also incentivises bad behaviour in music. I am looking at you Spotify.
I can just about understand why you would choose to keep an old Twitter account going … but why anyone would start a new one is beyond me,
Anyone who has ideas … LMK.
I can just about understand why you would choose to keep an old Twitter account going … but why anyone would start a new one is beyond me,
Anyone who has ideas … LMK.
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A spectacular event to look forward to (my take) - or “artsy navel gazing on his part?” (the take of a friend of mine who is also a fan.)
