It’s official!
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JenniferT (@wysiwygjt) February 19, 2013
WTH? Powering Down Google Reader
As I logged into Twitter Thursday morning, @ahoova’s tweet greeted me:
Why? Why would google reader shut down? WHY—
Ahuvah Berger Burcat (@ahoova) March 14, 2013
And what followed were several hours on a roller-coaster ride of emotional ups and downs and reading more about RSS feeds and apps than I’ve done in years. I consume a lot of RSS feeds in my Google Reader, but apparently overlooked this one:
Powering Down Google Reader (via Official Google Reader Blog and posted to WordPress.com via Reader’s “Send to” button.)
What does this mean for me personally? For me the Reader is not only about reading but being able to share interesting reads and not just to FB, Twitter and by email! Google Reader also lets you publish a public page of any selected feed or groups of feeds and that page itself has a feed. I’ve used them to populate WordPress.com RSS widgets on several of my sites. On this site, that’s the “Blogging News” in the footer. Come July 1st, those will disappear, unless I can find a replacement.
And on the lighter side, Ian in Hamburg has gone all out poking fun at the demise of Google Reader (with tongue in cheek…I think).
Meanwhile, over on Rob Cottingham’s “Noise to Signal”…
Update: Will the bad news from Google never end? What’s next, Google Alerts?
Update2: WordPress.com users can import their Google Reader subscriptions to the WordPress.com Reader. Announcement here.
Could be related:
Killing Google Reader is like killing the bees: we’ll all be worse off
Hellas
Hellas, a set on Flickr.
Hard to believe that it’s been nearly six and a half years since our trip to Athens and Santorini. Greece is both familiar and exotic at the same time and I fantasize about returning to those lovely sites and especially the ones we didn’t have time to visit on this trip.
Via Flickr:
Athens and Santorini..this time.
The weather, cool, windy and mostly sunny, was perfect for walking, which we did everywhere. This was our first vacation in ages where we didn’t see the sights from a car window and I was thrilled.
PSA
My Mini spotted in the Wild
Apparently my Mini was off partying without my knowing about it. In fact, I was sitting right next to it when this photo was taken by the event organizer, but it seems Mini’s WP stickers were more of an attraction than the woman who owns them. Regardless, thank you, Google Campus coordinator, for providing the full picture.
The only constant is change
Working on making some creative and professional changes/challenges, but only good ones. Time will tell. Until everything is sorted and I have more time to post again, please feel free to check out my archives or read a random post.
