https://akakensmith.com/ Riding the packets . . . Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:31:09 GMT en-us rss.network v0.6.1 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:48:10 GMT https://ksmith.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/dscf9129.jpg https://akakensmith.com/ Riding the packets . . . akaKenSmith Wed, July 22, 2026 8:48 PM EDT https://demo.rss.chat/users/akaKenSmith/rss.xml <p>When my students and I studied historical episodes of active citizenship, we saw that six things needed to be in place for the activists to have a chance for success.</p><p><b>One of them was the ability to affiliate with others.</b> Not just write as we please and read what others write. Beyond that: to find partners and allies and take on the shared work of effective citizenship, through public speech and private planning, just as historical examples have shown.</p><p>By now we take for granted that we can read and write as soloists on the web. Looks like <a href="http://rss.chat">rss.chat</a>, however, is taking a very practical step forward in the power to affiliate.</p> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:31:09 GMT https://demo.rss.chat/?id=229 When my students and I studied historical episodes of active citizenship, we saw that six things needed to be in place for the activists to have a chance for success. **One of them was the ability to affiliate with others.** Not just write as we please and read what others write. Beyond that: to find partners and allies and take on the shared work of effective citizenship, through public speech and private planning, just as historical examples have shown. By now we take for granted that we can read and write as soloists on the web. Looks like [rss.chat](http://rss.chat), however, is taking a very practical step forward in the power to affiliate. https://demo.rss.chat/?id=222 <p>If "there's also a feed of everyone's posts together," I see that a small group of writers could collaborate on a topic of concern in a single instance of <a href="http://rss.chat">rss.chat</a>, creating something they think of as a single-topic publication.</p><p>This could be a topic of pressing short-term interest, and that response would be nimble, wouldn't it? When a weather disaster threatens a region of the country, for example, the tools are already in place here and there's a low barrier to entry for new writers to contribute. The feed would send the posts to a WordPress blog built in minutes for the occasion, yes?</p> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:23:05 GMT https://demo.rss.chat/?id=220 If "there's also a feed of everyone's posts together," I see that a small group of writers could collaborate on a topic of concern in a single instance of [rss.chat](http://rss.chat), creating something they think of as a single-topic publication. This could be a topic of pressing short-term interest, and that response would be nimble, wouldn't it? When a weather disaster threatens a region of the country, for example, the tools are already in place here and there's a low barrier to entry for new writers to contribute. The feed would send the posts to a WordPress blog built in minutes for the occasion, yes? If I understand correctly, it's RSS-in, RSS-out, small pieces designed to be loosely joined, and all meant to be locked open . . . yes, please. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:58:09 GMT https://demo.rss.chat/?id=219 If I understand correctly, it's RSS-in, RSS-out, small pieces designed to be loosely joined, and all meant to be locked open . . . yes, please.