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24 June, 2013

Bye Bye, Google Reader


The soon-coming demise of Google Reader fulfills the tenants of Murphy's Law.  In particular, the one about when something is really good, it will be discontinued.

 Please take the time to switch my humble blog over to your new feed service, kind reader.

 I very much like Cristina Dalla Valentina's blog, and here is her suggestion to use Feedly as an alternative.  What is your idea or plan? 
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13 comments:

  1. Cristina Dalla ValentinaJune 24, 2013 at 7:59 AM

    I'm glad you enjoyed my post, Casey, and I hope will come in handy! Ciao!

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  2. Ruth ArmitageJune 24, 2013 at 8:13 AM

    I have switched to feedly too. I'm liking it so far, almost as well as Google reader.

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  3. Casey KlahnJune 24, 2013 at 8:51 AM

    Thanks for covering the issue, Cristina! Ruth - glad to hear it. Since my homepage is The Colorist, it was always so easy to just look on the dashboard for my blog interests. Now, I have to go elsewhere. Grrr.

    I think I used to use bloglines. Don't even know if my account there is active.

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  4. CERULEANJune 24, 2013 at 2:07 PM

    Thanks for this post, Casey.
    I mostly read the blogs I follow in "draft.blogger.com/home". Does that disappear too?

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  5. Casey KlahnJune 24, 2013 at 8:36 PM

    That's exactly what goes away, Eric. As I understand it. With it, I expect that lovely FOLLOWERS or MEMBERS box to go inert. Just my suspicion.

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  6. Celeste BerginJune 24, 2013 at 9:48 PM

    thanks for the info Cristina and Casey!

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  7. Casey KlahnJune 25, 2013 at 7:10 AM

    You're welcome, Celeste!

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  8. Karin Goeppert and Kenneth BurnsJune 25, 2013 at 11:24 AM

    I use blogger.com and I suppose this will be gone too. Have you switched to "feedly" yet, Casey?
    I wonder if one can wait until, well, say July 2 and see what will happen and what will be turned off???

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  9. Casey KlahnJune 25, 2013 at 11:47 AM

    Blogger will stay, as it is out blog host, but the feeds of other blogs subscribed to will disappear.

    I haven't switched yet. If you're going to wait, just copy down who you follow. Or, take a screencap of your google reader list.

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  10. CmichaudartJune 25, 2013 at 1:11 PM

    The more I learn the behinder I get. Ditto on the Grrrrr!
    What a pain...

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  11. Casey KlahnJune 26, 2013 at 4:35 AM

    We'll get through it. Of all the blogs I follow, I'd say a fraction are active. Hang in there, Cindy!

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  12. AnonymousJune 28, 2013 at 10:10 PM

    I switched to Newsblur. They had free accounts but were swamped with google reader refugees. Yearly subscription is about 22.00 dollars. Its similar, and you can import your feeds and saved stories.

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  13. Casey KlahnJune 29, 2013 at 4:48 AM

    Thanks for the hint of Newsblur, Tracey.

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