Introduction The "best" feed reader is largely a matter of individual preference. There are many good ones. Most of them, including the best, are free like browsers. The one that matches the way you want to work is best for you. :-) No matter which reader you choose, it should give you some way to back up your feeds, preferably as an OPML file. You may also be able to use your OPML file to move to another reader, although the formats may not be compatible.

Article by Doc Searls. About how surveillance capitalism keeps us prisoner to corporate masters and how we need to break out of this.

Bit of Internet history. I always liked these smileys the best.

Article in which Robin Rendle explains RSS feeds, feed readers, how they work and how to use them.

For creators & fans of independent digital media, celebrates and advocates for independent blogs, podcasts, video, music, ebooks, digital art, and more.

A history of the internet web book. This site provides a free, comprehensive reference about the Internet and its main technologies, including the human history. It was the first book published on the Web, on January 7, 2000, and last updated September 8 , 2017.

A sequel or addendum to the Cluetrain Manifesto addressing encroachments on internet freedom, privacy and other places where the Internet has been assailed.

News and resources covering social media, search engines, databases, archives, and other such information collections. Since 1998.

Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed.

The Cluetrain Manifesto

Geocities had tens of millions of "homesteaders" as the digital tenants were called and was bought by Yahoo! for three and a half billion dollars. Ten years later in 2009, as other metaphors of the internet (such as the social network) had taken over, and the homesteaders had left their properties vacant after migrating to Facebook, Geocities was shutdown and deleted. In an effort to preserve 10 years of collaborative work by 35 million people, the Archive Team made a backup of the site just before it shut down. The resulting 650 Gigabyte file is the digital Pompeii that is the subject of an interactive excavation that allows you to wander through an episode of recent online history. This website is an interactive visualisation of the 650 gigabyte Geocities backup made by the Archive Team on October 27, 2009. It depicts the file system as a city map, spatially arranging the different neighbourhoods and individual lots based on the number of files they contain. In full view, t

If you look deep enough, beneath mountains of attention hoarding, illusion photography, trending trends, you'll find the old Internet, the one with content, knowledge, individuality, but you need to look hard. Can it be saved? Essay lays out what happened to the Internet and why we should rebuild it.

Website publishers have been incentivised to do exactly the opposite of what could have made the web so great.

Article about the commercialization of the web leading to the Web 2.0 as feudalism.