Each week in a video, my friend Maria poses a question about some Pigeon of Discontent raised by a blog reader.
In an age of Facebook posts and retweets, Google Senior Vice President Urs Holzle said in a post on the official Google blog that Reader was losing popularity.
And unfortunately, other than the personal discovery of that blog as a reader, there is no way for me as a company to quantify that emotional connection.
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"We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go, " said software engineer Alan Green on the Google Reader blog.
Some bloggers are allowing Google to place advertising links next to their postings, and thus get paid every time a reader of their blog clicks on them.
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Laws differ by jurisdiction, and the information on this blog may not apply to every reader.
In the comments section of The Volokh Conspiracy, a reader of that indispensable legal blog provides a rebuttal.
We have just announced on the Official Google Blog that we will soon retire Google Reader (the actual date is July 1, 2013).
Gone is the physical distance that reduces the tension surrounding nasty attacks in other online forums, for instance in multiplayer games, chat rooms, or in the reader comments sections below news articles or blog posts.
Twitter is used by many as a teaser, to drive the reader (via link) to a longer message, blog, article or website.
If the Comment were in response to one posted by another reader, I would permanently delete it because I police this blog and will not tolerate trolls or personal attacks.
In his blog, he added:" "Google destroyed the RSS feed-reader ecosystem with a subsidised product, stifling its competitors and killing innovation.
For a more extensive list of Google Reader alternatives, check out this This Google Spreadsheet from the Online Journalism Blog.
Lines like that led one reader of The Day, Nina Lentini, to collect her favorites on her blog Life Without End, an endearing compendium of the way survivors thought people might have wanted to be branded, or just the way they wanted to brand themselves.
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Our Reader Comments of the Week come from a post on our What's Next blog about about a mobile app being developed in Boston that would use your phone to automatically report potholes to the city.
As Lady Fate would have it, the company apparently outed a memo of the features on its French blog earlier today, but before it could yank the 'pull' switch, an eagle-eyed reader managed to grab the text and run it through -- surprise, surprise -- Google Translate.
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