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Yesterday’s announcement that Google are discontinuing Google Reader from July 1 is a disappointment.
People ask how I keep up with online content.
Simple.
Instead of going to hundreds of websites, an rss subscription for each website in Google reader means that everytime new content was posted on each blog, there it was, all on one page in my web browser.
In the time it takes people to read a newspaper (not our local Border Watch, but a city newspaper) I can scan the internet.
Google state they’re discontinuing the feature because less people use it, and that’s no doubt true.
A telling factor is also that it was free, and there was no way Google seemed to be able to rejig it to make money from it.
I was seeing content pretty much free of ads.
So I’m in the market for a new rss reader over the next couple of months.
One aspect of this is that people will start producing them again.
Google had pretty much killed the market, at least for desktop usage.