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How We Curate News in Tux Machines (Turning Thousands of Entries Into a Few Dozen Daily Pages/Clusters of Links)
Turning giant piles into summaries readers can digest quickly and effortlessly
Running Tux Machines isn't too hard for us because we've done this for many years already. Even prior to Tux Machines I had already done curation of Free software links (for over 20 years already). The process does require a deep understanding of the issues; without knowing the terminology, the names of people, the pertinent organisation etc. it's difficult to grasp how things are connected or how topics related to one another.
Some time soon a new version of Roy and Rianne's Righteously Royalty-free RSS Reader (R.R.R.R.R.R.) will be released under the AGPLv3. When we run it, as we do every day, it produces something like this:
We can then open articles of interest in new tabs, usually in Firefox. We then organise them, shuffle them around, and use a plug-in we made by our team for Firefox to extract summaries (no slop, just verbatim snippets).
Running Tux Machines is a lot of fun. It feels productive and fruitful, even in the face of jealous lunatics from Microsoft with their "assassins" down in London. The vicious attacks on us mostly serve to affirm the importance of what we do here. What we've done in this site since 2004. Stopping us is like trying to stop an elephant. Don't even try. █