Okay, so it’s not exactly Occupy Wall Street, and the cause isn’t quite so dire as the recklessness of investment bankers gone wild or the government bailouts, but Google Reader is being cut off at the knees, and a number of its die-hard fans (including a few I know from Google Reader) have taken to [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 23, 2011
News that Google is killing off Google Reader’s social features and integrating the RSS service into the Google Plus platform has been met with a mixture of excitement, apathy, and dread. Many users of Google Reader, such as myself, realize the importance of including Reader functionality within Google Plus. Many of us also think an [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 21, 2011
I wrote a pretty sober piece about the death or near-death of Google Reader yesterday, but after reading Sarah Perez and Austin Frakt and after thinking about just how much I use Google Reader every day, I’m beginning to revise my initial forecast. Stay calm is quickly shifting toward full-bore Panic Mode. First of all, [...]
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It was only a matter of time. When Google announced last week that it was killing off Google Buzz, those of us who use Google Reader began to get nervous. Would Google kill off Reader as well? Would we Google Reader fanatics be forced to use some other less interesting service? Well, the answer to [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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