If you’re serious about writing a memoir, what topics should you include, and what can you leave out? And how honest can you really be about the other people in your life? Some of America’s leading memoirists wrote things they lived to...
Britain’s new polar research ship is named RSS Sir David Attenborough, even though an online vote overwhelmingly chose the name Boaty McBoatface. Versions of this playful construction go back at least as far as a 1987 episode of the television...
metagator n.— «I’ve recently sung the praises of “metagator” (meta-aggregator) sites such as Popurls and Original Signal. These sites display data from RSS feeds on particular topics. They’re very useful if you’re trying to...
river of news n.— «Radio Userland helped jump-start RSS in that format’s early days, and it still warrants a look today. Though it requires a download, Radio Userland works as an online reader, listing all feed items in one column, in...
podiobook n.— «Terra coined the phrase “podiobook” to refer to serialized audiobooks delivered via an RSS feed.» —“Podcast Novel Collects Over 5,500 Readers, and Counting” PRNewswire Apr. 19, 2005...