Here's Why Google Reader Really Got the Axe
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#2This "all new all different" way of "actively consuming news" makes me very nervous. It really sounds like loosing too much control over content.
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#3What utter trash. Who says that Google Reader was about news, anyway? I use RSS to follow websites so that I don't miss content from them, and don't have to keep checking them manually. The updates aren't all 'news' and don't have to be instant or even timely. It just lets me gather everything in one place so that I can read it when I want to.
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#5So it was because they wanted people to move to Google+, like everybody has been saying since day 1.
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#6What utter trash. Who says that Google Reader was about news, anyway? I use RSS to follow websites so that I don't miss content from them, and don't have to keep checking them manually. The updates aren't all 'news' and don't have to be instant or even timely. It just lets me gather everything in one place so that I can read it when I want to.
The author seems to be attributing some general and unrelated comments to Google Reader - very irresponsible on her part.
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#7How is Reader passive versus Twitter and G+? It's completely active because you have to sift through hundreds of items and you have to decide what's important and interesting enough to share. That's a lot of work by the user. Passive news consumption is not Reader, but Twitter-like services where "interesting" articles are pushed to you. Twitter also doesn't have an unread count, so you only see what's shared recently. You completelt miss out on articles shared a few tweets ago because who scrolls back that far?
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#8Maybe one day machine learning will be able to better source me content better than I can curate for myself - but it sure as shinola doesn't even come close now.
In the meantime I'll spend my time with those tools that allow me to more effectively entertain and inform myself. And right now I do that with feedly... following blogs and news sources and gradually adding new ones over time as I discover them.
No one has solved content discovery - and won't for a while yet. So I'll do it the old fashioned way. Read stuff I like, follow the links that people I trust post, and occasionally find some gold through google search myself.
P.S. FEEDLY is AWESOME!
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#9It really boils down to that the costs outweighed the benefits so they are shutting it down. I'm sure it's also about political power structure within the organization. Google+ is the current favorite group so if they feel like reader is competing with them they can successfully advocate to get it shutdown. I think the same thing is going on with chrome vs android. That's why there's no chrome store or extensions available in chrome for android.
It's just lame when corporate political decisions are presented in the guise of " people's usage habits are changing" or "it's technically difficult..."
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#10How is Reader passive versus Twitter and G+? It's completely active because you have to sift through hundreds of items and you have to decide what's important and interesting enough to share. That's a lot of work by the user. Passive news consumption is not Reader, but Twitter-like services where "interesting" articles are pushed to you. Twitter also doesn't have an unread count, so you only see what's shared recentl…
Welcome to the mid 1990s, when the sexy new "Push technology" was going to kill the fusty old "Pull technology". Pointcast was an Internet darling and people thought HTTP was due to be taken to the knacker's any day.
That being said, bad ideas from the 1990s internet have a bad habit of being reinvented as multi-zillion dollar startups. I guess I need to start reading old copies of Wired for inspiration.