Luckily, we have an even better option now: Calibre. There were a lot of platforms to do that, but most of them are not reliable anymore. So once we have the RSS sources ready, we need to import them. There is a tool called RSSHub does exactly this. But as long as the content is available online, we can use tools to crawl and convert it to an RSS feed. Many websites doesn’t provide full article RSS output. With limited sources, I can focus more on the whole article instead of a lot titles. For the news sources, they should be focus on facts instead of its own opinion, and should cover the whole story instead of partial fact. That’s enough for 1~2 hour’s daily reading. Basically 1 or 2 sources for local news, global news, tech news and culture. As a person who only wants to know important news and doesn’t want to lost in the overwhelming information, I subscribe to a few high quality sources.
RSS is open and flexible, so people have various ways of using it. RSS is also an open protocol, so you can choose whatever software you want without vendor lock-in. I talked about what’s wrong about the recommendation system in a previous post. You can choose the sources by yourself instead of some black box recommendation algorithms. RSS was so popular before Google Reader was killed. In this article, I will talk about one of the strategies of doing that: don’t read news on mobile phone or computer. In a previous blog post, I talked about one of the reasons I want to use mobile phone and social network less often. Update: check this article to see how to use a RSS reader I wrote to take back the control of your information consumption.
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