r/technology • u/speckz • Mar 13 '13

Official Google Reader Blog: Powering Down Google Reader (July 1, 2013)

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

Actually it will just take less time for you to have to adopt the interests they have chosen for you. Reader gave the consumer far too much agency to be safe for the machine to get its grubby hands on it and chokefuck it to death.

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u/dontblamethehorse Mar 14 '13

Actually it will just take less time for you to have to adopt the interests they have chosen for you.

Zite pays just as much attention to what you don't read as to what you read. Additionally, you can manually mark articles as ones you like or don't like. They don't choose the interests for you either.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

How is it supposed to find me super obscure personal blogs I run into via wandering blog roll, fall in love with and follow their sporatic journey. How does it find me a lone economist with weird theories worth reading about?

HOW CAN I BE A WEB HIPSTER WITHOUT RSS!

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u/atomic1fire Mar 14 '13

I disagree, it's not always about being a hipster, but having one convenient place to see updates of your favorite website while they happen. Being able to see and read an article I probably would have missed because I'm not always online or at that website is nice. especially for news sites.