Rarely (if ever) have I posted about anything tech related. As one who reads multiple blogs on a daily basis, I was surprised to hear that Google was closing the shutters on Google Reader on July 1st of this year. Doesn't everyone use Google Reader? I've used it to organize my RSS feeds for years. All of my favorite blogs are in one place and when there is new content to read, Google Reader lets me know.
If you are a Google Reader user, I found an article in USA Today that gives a short summary of a few other RSS readers. I'm thinking of going with Pulse although I do like the look of Feedly. It's the last sentence of the Feedly summary makes me wary, "Although the service relies on Google Reader's API, developers say they are creating their own version that will take its place when Reader shuts down July 1". Truth be told, I don't know what the hell an API is, but I know that I don't want any glitches. I just want to choose a reader and be done with it.
This makes me wonder of blogs are becoming a thing of the past. Blogging has been a really nice way to share with all of you and my gosh, I would've never have met Katina without my blog! Well, Google Reader may be saying goodbye to y'all, but I don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon.
And Hitler, I know just how you feel...
Surprisingly, I don't use any RSS feed readers to do my blog reading (I honestly just go to my blog and then click on all the links of 'recently updated' blogs).
API - Application Programming Interface...it's like a library I think - So let's say people are programs (but corporations aren't people), and libraries are libraries. A person owns a library, and opens it so others can go to it as well, but what happens when that owner decides they don't want to run that library any long and so he shuts it down? The people that have been visiting will need to either find a new library or build their own.
Posted by: katina | Mar 15, 2013 at 09:33 AM
I, too, don't use a reader. I Google "Mulish & Co" and click on your listing. I use other people's blog lists to click on the blogs I like or I Google the name of the blog, like I do yours. Honestly, I don't actually know what "RSS" stands for and although I tried to subscribe to a blog (Wabi-Sabi Home) one time by clicking on the RSS feed.--I didn't do it right because I never got fed. :-(
Posted by: Laura | Mar 15, 2013 at 09:00 PM
I don't use an rss reader either. So it sounds like everyone is safe?
I have two bookmark bar folders. One titled "fun" and one titled "read this", then I just go through them every day or two as I feel like it. I've considered how sad it is to have a folder titled "fun", as if I'm reminding myself to have fun. But then again, I have a bottle titled Xanax (which does have xanax, not candy), so theres that.
Posted by: Nina Potts | Mar 16, 2013 at 08:06 PM