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[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/06/RSS-Fountain.jpg] If you’re reading this post in Google Reader – or an app that syncs with Google Reader – the you have around 48 hours to find a replacement. Google Reader dies on Monday. I’ve just written a
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Looking for something to replace Google Reader
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Laura Hazard Owen, writing for Paid Content, identifies why the “social media has killed RSS” idea doesn’t apply [http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/14/google-reader-please-dont-go-i-need-you-to-do-my-job/] to many of us: > The best thing about Google Reader, from my point of view, is that it allows me to scan a
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Sometimes, checking your news reader before you hit the sack is an error. Last night was one such night – because I flipped through articles to find that Google is killing off Google Reader [http://googlereader.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html]. For many of you, this will mean little
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Here’s an issue many people aren’t aware of: > Does Google Reader really only poll feeds once an hour? bit.ly/RSU9Ia [http://t.co/5btxsxxv] Bit of a fail for use on a news desk if so #journalism [https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism] — John Thompson (@johncthompson) November
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[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2012/08/in-my-pocket-ipad-2720.html] In 2001, when I first became aware of blogging and RSS feeds, I used to speculate about magazines of the future, built of feeds which allowed you to select the reporters, reviewers and commenters that mattered to you. In
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Mr Whatley on RSS and commonplace books [http://whatleydude.com/2012/08/commonplace-books/]: > However, I prefer reading everything at random. It’s a habit I’ve kept for a long time but it’s something that’s recently been re-enforced by learning about the origins of the commonplace book,
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One of the nice things about shifting from a corporate employee to freelance consultant-for-hire type, is completely defining my own work style and tools. For example, I just figured out how to solve the “where did I read that?” issue that often plagues me when blogging. For example, while writing
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[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/11/readerrev.jpg] Today has been filled with people howling in protest at the changes to Google Reader – and I just didn’t notice the difference. But then, I rarely actually log into the interface; the majority of my consumption
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Talking of RSS [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2011/01/rumours_of_rsss_demise_are_greatly_exagg.html] , I note than some more changes have hit everyone’s favourite paywalled enterprise, The Times online. First up, the blogs now have a free-to-air front page [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/
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So, I missed that whole “RSS is dead, I tell you! Dead! DEAD!” meme that made the rounds a few weeks ago, by virtue of being on holiday. I’m glad, frankly, because attention-grabbing link bait by tech bloggers in pretty low down on my list of “favourite types of
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[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/10/photo.jpg]A little while ago, I was flicking through feeds in Newsrack [http://www.omz-software.de/newsstand/]on my iPad. I chose to share an article via Twitter, in the application. I pressed send – and saw the Tweet