Twitter's actually replaced my Facebook consumption outside of Friend updates since it's more realtime, but something like reader can't really be substituted. Between feeds to shopping and deal sites, obscure political technology or economic blogs, foreign language stuff and so on it would be too tedious to try to keep up with everything just on Twitter or the other social media sites. Not to mention, that Reader worked across all platforms with good synchronization. Portable devices and the regular computer. With the last few updates, jaws finally ironed out the bugs that made Reader a challenge to use in some areas.
Since the drop dead date is still a few months away, I'll keep using it. Grabbing the opml file is easy enough. Hopefully things may be sorted out by then and a decent cross platform substitute will emerge. Oh well... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 9:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Google Reader To Shut Down July 1st To some extent, you can use Twitter lists to do what RSS feeds do. For example I have a general news list, and a tech news list. Most major news publications publish their RSS feed to Twitter. However, I prefer using an RSS reader for anything but breaking news where I want real time updates, where of course Twitter can't be surpassed, because of the ability to preview the news story in any good feed reader. With Twitter, you get the headline and the URL. With Feeddler, I can read enough of the story right there in the article list to know if I want to open the full article. Twitter just can't be as efficient in this respect. Jonathan On 14/03/2013, at 11:17 AM, Christopher Chaltain <[email protected]> wrote: > It's hard to argue that the relevance of RSS hasn't diminished somewhat over the years, but with the rise of social networking and just the sheer amount of information on the web, that could be said for a lot of things. As far as mostly being replaced by Twitter, that's just not the case for me. Maybe there's a Twitter client and service out there I'm not aware of, but I haven't found anything that's as easy to setup and use to get updates on the pages I want to follow as RSS and Google Reader in particular. If I have to rely on Twitter, I'll be spending a lot more time to get at much less relevant information. > > On 03/14/2013 04:51 AM, Sean Paul wrote: >> Well, let's see if it actually does shut down or just stops getting >> supported. Me personally I never found it accessible at all. Frankly, >> I found it a pain in the... Well, you know what I mean there. If >> you've got all that sunk with your feeddler you should already be in >> good shape there. I've seen folks talking throughout this thread >> talking about rss, etc. Frankly RSS isn't as relavant as it once was. >> Twitter has pretty much taken its place. &, the line posted somewhere >> in this thread about everything accessible to the blind going away? Really? >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* Cristobal <mailto:[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 13, 2013 20:00 >> *Subject:* Google Reader To Shut Down July 1st >> >> Talk about a major bummer. >> >> Can anyone recommend accessible alternatives to Reader? Something >> that would work with apps for i-devices too? I'm currently using >> Feedller on boht my iPad and iPhone. I've got over two hundred and >> fifty subscriptions and even though I use my pc a lot, I've gotte to >> the point where I reach for my phone or iPad to sift through the >> various rss entries as much as I do through the computer. 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