http://isource.com/2013/03/14/google-reader-shutdow/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 http://isource.com/2013/03/14/google-reader-shutdow/#comment-52872 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:20:00 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=60637#comment-52872 This is a great reminder to some tech enthusiasts who think that Google is some utopian tech philanthropic organization that they are actually a business. As such, they just made a business decision to cut a lot of their core users off at the knees in favor of pushing Google+ further down our throats.

]]> http://isource.com/2013/03/14/google-reader-shutdow/#comment-52868 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:34:00 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=60637#comment-52868 From 84 subscriptions, over the past 30 days I’ve read 5,144 items. Since October 15, 2007 I’ve read 300,000+ items.

]]> http://isource.com/2013/03/14/google-reader-shutdow/#comment-52859 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:24:00 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=60637#comment-52859 You have “read” 300,000+ items? That’s exactly why I switched away from a RSS feed and now almost solely use my Twitter feed instead. For me, Twitter is much easier to scroll through and pick out what I want to read. If I don’t have time to read an article while paging through Twitter, I simply send it to a news aggregate like Instapaper or Readability and finish as time allows. My RSS feed got too unwieldy to handle and I found that when I finally did get to it there was an overwhelming amount of articles to “read.” However, with Twitter I can keep the flow steady most days.

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