● 07.07.23

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●● How We’ve Leveraged RSS Feeds to Curate News and Research/Survey News Sites for Articles

Posted in Site News at 7:35 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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http://techrights.org/videos/rss-force-multipliers.webm

Summary: When it comes to actual news on the World Wide Web, it has become a Soddom and Gomorrah of plagiarised/computer-generated text, misinformation, disinformation, and outright spam; but with a little work it’s possible to squeeze out the signal from the noise and this video explains what we use

THE changes we’re making to our workflow and the Free software developed for the workflow (see our Git repository on Gemini) can help us do the same tasks as before, except a lot more quickly and sometimes exhaustively. It has already made us far more efficient this year, freeing up time for tasks other than Daily Links.

The video above focuses on some of the more recent changes, which include colour-coding for themes and topics. At the core of these pipelines we have RSS feeds (or Atom) and there’s more processing done to cull/remove the chaff. The Web of 2023 is nothing like it was in 2013 or in 2003. There’s not much journalism left in it and even distro reviews are quite rare. This means that a lot more curation is required to meet similar standards and keep up with substantial news. █

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