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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Calishat: Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader Updated and Now Available. “The Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader is a Google Sheets-based tool that lets you schedule your RSS feeds and give them expiration dates. I have used TOFR for monitoring breaking news topics over the short-term, scheduling feeds in advance for a known business-/stock- related deadline, and to ‘audition’ keywords I […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/12/calishat-temporary-obsessions-rss-feed-reader-updated-and-now-available/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/12/calishat-temporary-obsessions-rss-feed-reader-updated-and-now-available/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>MakeUseOf: Sick of Too Many Tabs? These Simple Tricks Saved Me . “My web browsers used to look chaotic at best. A random website open in one tab, Google Docs in another, and perhaps a video to listen to while I worked with some extra tabs involving research pages. Eventually, I got fed up with working like this, and some simple tweaks changed everything.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/02/makeuseof-sick-of-too-many-tabs-these-simple-tricks-saved-me/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/02/makeuseof-sick-of-too-many-tabs-these-simple-tricks-saved-me/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>How-To Geek: Why I Still Get My News and Alerts From a 25 Year Old Tool. “Catching up on the news means either dodging paywalls on traditional media sites, or wading through toxic comments on social media, right? Wrong: there’s another way. RSS has been keeping us informed for over two decades, and it’s as relevant today as ever.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/10/how-to-geek-why-i-still-get-my-news-and-alerts-from-a-25-year-old-tool/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/10/how-to-geek-why-i-still-get-my-news-and-alerts-from-a-25-year-old-tool/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>ZDNet: How to set up your own article archiving service – and why I did (RIP, Pocket). “Mozilla killed Pocket, but your bookmarks don’t have to die. Here’s how to self-host ArchiveBox – with a little help from ChatGPT – and take ownership of your reading archive.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/zdnet-how-to-set-up-your-own-article-archiving-service-and-why-i-did-rip-pocket/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/zdnet-how-to-set-up-your-own-article-archiving-service-and-why-i-did-rip-pocket/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Alex Chan: Creating a static website for all my bookmarks. “It’s taken hundreds of hours to get all my bookmarks and saved web pages into this new site, and it’s taught me a lot about archiving and building the web. This post is the first of a four-part series about my bookmarks, and I’ll publish the rest of the series over the next three weeks.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/alex-chan-creating-a-static-website-for-all-my-bookmarks/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/alex-chan-creating-a-static-website-for-all-my-bookmarks/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>MakeUseOf: I Tried 5 Google Chrome Bookmark Alternatives, and This Is My New Favorite. “Google Bookmarks shut down in 2021, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other options. I’ve tried different Google Bookmark alternatives and found a new favorite you will also love.” +1 for Raindrop.</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/09/makeuseof-i-tried-5-google-chrome-bookmark-alternatives-and-this-is-my-new-favorite/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/09/makeuseof-i-tried-5-google-chrome-bookmark-alternatives-and-this-is-my-new-favorite/</a></p>
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