{"id":358,"date":"2013-03-14T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=358"},"modified":"2023-12-30T16:15:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T16:15:47","slug":"life-after-google-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/life-after-google-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Life after Google reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s finally going, should have left it when they swapped RSS publication for Google Plus only. Here&#8217;s the then alternatives &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>Where to go?<\/h4>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the<a title=\"google blog ...spring cleaning\" href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/03\/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html\"> Google Blog<\/a>, <a title=\"added to at Google Reader Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/googlereader.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/03\/powering-down-google-reader.html\">here&#8217;s the Google Reader Blog<\/a> and<a title=\"Lifehacker on what to use next\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130617041832\/http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5990456\/google-reader-is-getting-shut-down-here-are-the-best-alternatives\"> here&#8217;s Life Hacker<\/a>. Dave Winer says<a title=\"Good Riddance\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190518110946\/http:\/\/threads2.scripting.com:80\/2013\/march\/goodbyeGoogleReader\"> Good Riddance<\/a>, and suggests you <a title=\"mediahackers.org\" href=\"http:\/\/tabs.mediahackers.org\/?panel=dave\">build your own river by checking his out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Melange on <a title=\"How to get the OPML\" href=\"http:\/\/isiria.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/10\/how-to-export-google-reader-feeds-into-opml\/\">how to get the OPML file<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Replacements<\/h4>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Productivityist on his view on <a title=\"Productivityist, part of a series\" href=\"http:\/\/productivityist.com\/goodbye-google-ridding-myself-of-google-reader\/\">how to get off it as a Mac<\/a>\u00a0User, it&#8217;s part of a series and he decided that Google Reader was a step too far, although he talks about the obvious alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>The one&#8217;s I have found by harvesting advice is below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Feedly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.feedly.com\/\">http:\/\/www.feedly.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Newsblur\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsblur.com\/\">http:\/\/www.newsblur.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Bloglines\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150109185004\/http:\/\/www.bloglines.com:80\/?\">http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"the old reader, built as a clone before it got shit\" href=\"http:\/\/theoldreader.com\/\">http:\/\/theoldreader.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not sure about Bloglines, it&#8217;s where I came from, but no-one is suggesting that one should go back!<\/p>\n<h4>Bloglines<\/h4>\n<p>So giving this a try, exported the OPML nad uploaded, that was easy. It has a widget and reader view. Need to get to grips with UI. Seems to be more difficult to dismiss the boring bits.<\/p>\n<p>It has multiple widgets that give you massive choice of how each news feed looks and feels. The tags\/folders\u00a0correspond\u00a0to pages.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s mobile\/small scree interface is poor.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t see how to make a forwarding feed.<\/p>\n<h4>Feedly<\/h4>\n<p>Getting in is easy; it has an Android version.<\/p>\n<p>The blog has an, as yet unread, article on getting started for google reader exiles.<\/p>\n<p>Both the screen and phone version will require a\u00a0reorganisation\u00a0of the hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>This is rather awesome, it has a share with delicious feature, a <a title=\"http:\/\/blog.feedly.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.feedly.com\/\">blog<\/a>; it requires the installation of an addin\/plugin, which I have done on my works laptop, using chrome, and home desktop using firefox. I ma not yet happy with the hierarchy, but I am sure I will.<\/p>\n<p>The share with features are a good first step to recreating a news feed, but at the moment you have to use my Delicious or <a title=\"my internet spore\" href=\"http:\/\/davelevy.info\/mingle\/\">mingle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s finally going, should have left it when they swapped RSS publication for Google Plus only. Here&#8217;s the then alternatives &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[111],"tags":[125,112,1184,124,114,113,116,117,115,911],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","tag-bloglines","tag-cloud-2","tag-deprecated","tag-feedly","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-migration","tag-news","tag-reader","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/feedlyontablet.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9968,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/9968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}