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    If you’re an old-time blogger, you probably remember Freshly Pressed. 16 years ago (!), the folks at WordPress.com launched a new blog where they highlighted interesting blog posts from the WordPress.com community every week. We iterated on the idea a few times over the years but the main idea stayed the same:a curated collection of posts that entertained, enlightened, and inspired. It was our way of saying “we like you, we really like you” to creators, and amplifying their great work for others to find. Great Writing Deserves a Spotlight: Freshly Pressed Is BackFreshly Pressed went away for the past few years, but I’m happy to say that my team brought it back! It’s got a fresh coat of paint and most importantly, it’s got quite a few interesting blog posts already!Im really happy and proud that we were able to get this done. Today, more than ever, I think we could use a bit more humanity on the web.The old web felt like a city. You could turn down a random alley and find a weird little shop. You could get lost and discover something beautiful by accident. You could end up in a tiny shop you didn’t know existed or sit on a bench and people-watch.Now it’s a mall. Every path leads past a store. Every store wants something from you. Even the “public” space is engineered to keep you moving toward purchase.Straight from today’s Freshly Pressed post, I miss being unmarketable on the internet.So check some of those blogs out. Give them a Like. Leave a comment. Start following them. And if you find good potential candidates for the next Freshly Pressed post, send them my way! All you need to be featured is a WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress site running the Jetpack plugin, and most importantly, an interesting, or funny, or unique story to tell! Bonus: if you’re more of an RSS person, you can also get Freshly Pressed posts straight in your RSS reader via this feed. Pinging @davew, I know you’re always looking for good feeds 🙂
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    Over at WordPress.com, we recently added a new feature to the WordPress.com Reader. You can now build a list of blogs you like, and recommend them to others.What if your readers could help your blog grow? What if the writers you love could introduce their audience to yours?That’s the idea behind recommended blogs, a feature now available in the WordPress.com Reader that lets you share the blogs you enjoy most with your own audience.Let’s Grow Together: Introducing Recommended Blogs Since the WordPress.com Reader lets you follow any site that supports RSS, you can recommend blogs on any platform or CMS. As long as the site includes an RSS feed, you’ll be good to go!You can view my recommended blogs in my WordPress.com Reader profile. Ever the champion of the Open Web, @davew asked me if one could fetch those recommended blogs to show in their own app or tools. Since this is WordPress.com, recommended blogs are indeed available via the WordPress.com REST API. There are different endpoints one can use to fetch and show recommended blogs. All you need to get started is a WordPress.com username.Side-note: WordPress.com usernames are also Gravatar usernames, so once you have a Gravatar username, you can show all sorts of information the person chose to make public in their profile:Check our API documentation to find out more.Once you have a WordPress.com username, you can make a request to rest/v1.2/read/lists/<username>/recommended-blogs/items to get a list of their recommended blogs:We also have another endpoint you can use to export the list in OPML format: wpcom/v2/read/lists/<list-ID>/export. You can get that list ID from the API response just above. That can be handy if you then want to import the list in your own Reader!If you haven’t tried the WordPress.com Reader yet, this could be a good opportunity to give it a try!
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    Dave Winer on Decentralisation, WordPress, and Open Publishing, by @davew and @nathanwrigley:https://wptavern.com/podcast/186-dave-winer-on-decentralisation-wordpress-and-open-publishing#podcasts #interviews #openweb #rss #wordpress #apis
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    What Mastodon is to ActivityPub . . .Wordpress is to RSS.| #Wordpress #RSS #Mastodon #ActivityPub