I heard the news that Google is going to drop Reader in a few months. I was heartbroken at hearing this; I searched for other “proof” that it was indeed not a joke.
It wasn’t a joke. They are going to give it the axe unless by a miracle the petitions that are circling the web manage to save the service. It is a simple, clean service that just. gets. it. done.
This week I have been trying Feedly, which seems to be a combination of Flipboard and reader. I tried Flipboard before and wasn’t happy with it. Now I have tried Feedly for a week, and I am not entirely happy with it either. I don’t like the “flipping” experience. (I enjoyed writing that line because I think that somewhere in my head I was saying it as it was doing double duty.) (Hah, duty…)
I digressed there, sorry about that.
A friend of mine is checking out “The Old Reader” which I heard about this weekend, but I haven’t yet tried.
I will continue to look around, as RSS isn’t dead. I don’t care what they say about Twitter and the other social media stuff taking RSS’ place. RSS comes to you; Twitter has too much static in its broadcast. I haven’t seen Facebook pull the readership that most RSS feeds do. I just can’t bring myself to be on Pinterest, I just don’t get that one.
What readers do you use?
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