Why?

Some vague feeling that if it were useful, correct, refined, and thought-out enough it would be in a book or periodical.

Hmm, I see it somewhat oppositely. I find that most books are bloated and spend most pages regurgitating information I already know, where blog posts tend to present only the novel information, using hyperlinks to link to information required to understand the given post.

If I know nothing about a topic I find books to be really valuable, but for topics I'm already knowledgeable on, they are terribly inefficient.

The title doesn’t accurately reflect what’s going on here. Apple News hasn’t supported users adding their own feeds for a number of years.

This article is about how publishers get their feeds into Apple News. Apple now requires publishers to provide a custom feed format rather than an RSS feed.

That's exactly how I read it.

I cannot recall ever seeing Apple promoting non-ANF format, and publishers who used RSS instead of ANF were not permitted to get analytics on their product... so I guess it was just a matter of time.

85 million monthly active users according to Apple.

I wonder if they’re defining “active users” as not only people who open the Apple News app, but also people who happen to see Apple News headlines in that Today View screen (the screen left of the home screen). I’m still using an SE so can’t be sure of this, but I’d bet all new iPhones still default to Apple News piping into that view: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/view-news-stories-in-...

85 million people too lazy to hunt out another news app, or just aimlessly opening apps on their phone when bored.

Do you know what qualifies as ‘active’?

I consume most content via RSS. It certainly doesn’t feel dead to me.

There are ways to get Facebook, Instagram and Twitter content into RSS too if that’s what you need.

I am interested in getting these three as rss feeds, not that I use them very much, much getting them into a reader would help others very much.

a quick search shows some things saying public pages can be made RSS, but nothing like a bot that can suck in what your wall or whatever would be and push it into a feed that can be read otherwise.

Here's to hoping the twitter open api thing and the few stories about portable data and standard export for social etc come true.

Or maybe I need to dig deeper, but my gut feeling is/was - finding a way to pull these feeds would lead to the method being killed off by these walled gardens at some point so don't bother. I'd love to be wrong on this.

I use twitrss.me 's Perl code (https://github.com/ciderpunx/twitrssme) to generate custom RSS feeds of twitter users and twitter searches locally which my native feed reader (QuiteRSS) then displays.

I run a long bash file with lines like,

perl twitter_user_to_rss.pl NASAJPL > ~/limbo/www/rss/NASAJPL.xml

perl twitter_search_to_rss_wtf.pl "electrostatic sail" > ~/limbo/www/rss/electrostatic-sail.xml

I use RSS Bridge. You can host it yourself, which is probably better, or use a public instance.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/blob/master/README....

The comments on the quoted OSX Daily article suggest that News hasn’t supported RSS since at least 2017, so not sure why this is news now.

Other Amazon employees have commented on the thread saying that their working conditions don't match the picture the OP described - so either practices differ between warehouses, or there's something else going on.

Practices differ between warehouses and at different times, depending on volume.

She didn't have a phsyical kindle device available.

Note that as much as people complain about proprietary file formats, this guy can open a word file from 1990 on a modern machine.