Why RSS

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RSS is an old-fashioned way to receive feeds from creators directly. It allows you to access information in a way that is stable, free of distraction and untouched by algorithms.

Below are my feeds.

My Curation ๐Ÿ”—

For Taiwanese ๐Ÿ”—

I like commentaries or investigative journalism, so here are some of them. They are all free to subscribe, but the last two contain articles that require membership (which deserves the fee, I would say).

For People Interested in Physics ๐Ÿ”—

Phys.org popularises frontier researches with easy-to-read summaries and provides back-links to the related journal articles; its feed on general physics, in particular, often gives out high-quality content.

Symmetry focuses more on Particle Physics and often gives out soft content that serves as good reading.

From other websites to RSS ๐Ÿ”—

Some blogs offer RSS buttons that you can subscribe its RSS by simply clicking them, but for others you need certain tricks.

Medium ๐Ÿ”—

You can learn how to pipeline posts on Medium from this article.

Blogs built with WordPress ๐Ÿ”—

While there are blogs that don’t offer the forementioned button, some of them actually generate RSS feed automatically. The feed can be access by appending /rss (or /feed) to the url of the website. For example, Humanity Island (https://humanityisland.nccu.edu.tw) doesn’t have the button in the page, but you still can access the feed from https://humanityisland.nccu.edu.tw/feed. 1


  1. The trick was mentioned by Ying-Hua, Pinkie, Wen. ↩︎