Yumi stap storian: How we built scienceblogging.org

Dave Winer has been working all year on a new RSS project (RSS 2.0 will mark 20 years in September). I'm excited to see what he builds and what community grows up around it. #

Back in 2010, as we were preparing for the annual ScienceOnline conference, a few of us launched a site to harness the many RSS feeds coming out of the blossoming science blogging world; scienceblogging.org pulled in the top headlines from blogging networks and collectives, group blogs, news sites, and more. Here, for instance, is the August 2011 Wayback Machine capture of the site. (Later, we built a better mousetrap at scienceseeker.org.)#

When I look back at that, I feel proud of what we built then; that site, and our conference and the global community that grew up around it, were exhilarating. Since then, I never stopped using RSS, and I have been probably the loudest voice for RSS feeds at Duke University (see my Duke River of News).#

Let's see where RSS goes over its next 20 years.#