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Tag: news

How To Use Reddit to Stay on Top of The News as well as more Good News

2024-11-102024-11-10 Danie
Red colour background with small Reddit logos on. A graphic of a newspaper is in the centre which has a title Daily News, and below that a smaller title saying Top News. Superimposed over the bottom right of the newspaper is a bright red Reddit logo with a smiling face on it.

Despite there being pretty good alternatives to Reddit (think Lemmy etc), Reddit still can’t be matched for the sheer volume, breadth, and depth of content to be found. Having hands-on moderators also means that the […]

Bloggoodnews, news, positive, technology

The Continent is a free (of cost, ads and trackers) news publication for Africans by Africans

2024-07-272024-07-27 Danie
Magazine front cover showing title The Continent and founded with Mail & Guardian. Top banner states African journalism, 27 July 2024 Issue 169. It features an image of a globe covered in smartphones, with a woman sweeping a path through them using a broom.

The Continent is a weekly newspaper produced by African reporters, photographers, illustrators and editors. It is designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp, Telegram channel, Signal or e-mail, and has become the continent’s most […]

Blogafrica, journalism, news, TheContinent

Stop using Social Media for News, RSS is Much Better!

2024-05-262024-05-26 Danie
A webpage showing various category names down the left-hand side. In the centre there is a list of5 articles with the heading All Personal Feeds. Each article has a bold text title with an associated excerpt paragraph from the article. To the left of the title and excerpt is a thumbnail image from each article.

RSS is one place for you to quickly sift through numerous sources of news quickly and efficiently. It’s up to you to decide what feeds to add – as many or as few as you […]

Blognews, RSS, technology

Feeeed is a reader app that goes beyond tracking RSS feeds with an extra bell and whistle

2024-03-112024-03-11 Danie
A mobile phone app screen showing a news feed with titles and a thumbnail image for each news item.

RSS feed apps are a really great way to focus on what you want to see and read about, but once you’ve read the feeds, the app is blank as it only shows what is […]

Blognews, RSS, technology

News aggregator app SmartNews’ latest feature tries to tackle doomscrolling through negative news

2023-09-202023-09-20 Danie
Smartphone tilted to the left, showing a screen with title News From All Sides, with a list of news article headlines down the screen.

News aggregator SmartNews is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help combat the anxiety associated with regularly consuming negative news — something often referred to as “doomscrolling.” Instead of encouraging impulsive scrolling […]

Blognews, positivenews, technology

Fluent Reader is a modern looking open-source desktop app for RSS News Reading

2023-08-082023-08-08 Danie
As per post title, with a blue logo with letter F

Are you frustrated with trying to source news about your interests from busy social media bias, or all the clutter and distractions of actual news websites? Don’t have time to visit 20 different websites to […]

BlogFluentReader, news, opensource, RSS, technology

Flipboard Is Now a Mastodon ‘App’ – Will have Mastodon Feeds like it had Twitter feeds before

2023-03-012023-03-01 Danie
iPhone and iPad screens showing news feeds

Flipboard has been a popular newsreader for years, grabbing data from news sites and social media feeds into a single “social magazine.” The service is now going all in with Mastodon, the rapidly-growing open-source social […]

Blog#flipboard, mastodon, news, technology

Cross-Platform Open-Source Fluent Reader is my current best choice for an offline RSS news aggregator

2022-11-232022-11-23 Danie
Screenshot of Fluent Redaer RSS reader application showing RSS feeds

I’ve happily been using self-hosted web-based FreshRSS for a while now. I chose it mainly because it suited my needs, and when I travelled regularly, I could work from the same shared source of articles. […]

Blog#fluentreader, news, opensource, RSS, technology

Scrolla is making news more accessible to South Africans by being extra light on data use, especially for pre-paid data customers

2022-10-312022-10-31 Danie
Scrolla Data Lite Zulu

The costs associated with paying for mobile phone data in many African countries are often incredibly high, making it prohibitive for lower income readers to access news. As our mission is to bring high quality […]

Blog#scrolla, news, southafrica, technology, zulu
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