Google announced
a few months ago that they would be shutting down Google Reader because of a
declining user base and I was crushed. I’ve only been using Google Reader for a
little more than a year because an internship had used it to track certain
blogs. I’ve been reading blogs but I was often getting behind because I didn’t
have a blog aggregator. Enter Google Reader: the hero that saved me from having
twenty different bookmarks in my Chrome browser.
The thing I
liked about Google Reader was that it let me read full posts without having to
actually visit the site. There were a few blogs that had that “more after the
jump” that would make me click through to the site if I wanted to read more,
but they had a brief intro so I could decide whether I wanted to read more or
not. Since starting my blog here on Blogger, I’ve been able to migrate my blogs
but it doesn’t give me the option of reading them all; instead, I have to
individually click through to each site and read the full post. I’m guessing it
has something to do with driving more traffic to those blogs since I’d want the
same thing for my blog – more actual page views.
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| RIP Google Reader. I'm going to miss you dearly. |
D-Day is July 1st
for Google Reader so I have about a month and a half to find an alternative. I
found this article on LifeHacker with some alternatives as well as their Top 5 picks but
I thought I’d get some peer advice. What do you use to track all your blogs?
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