Comments on: Why the death of Google Reader doesn’t bother me that much — social news has won

By: Kevin Horne

Kevin Horne — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:41:06 +0000

I was thinking Business Insider…

By: Nathan Jones

Nathan Jones — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:44:28 +0000

Sorry, I meant “Filter Bubble,” not “Social Bubble.”

By: Nathan Jones

Nathan Jones — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:41:02 +0000

The biggest problem with using Social Media for your news content is a phenomenon called the “Social Bubble,” in which you only hear about news from people/groups you agree with, which skews your perception of the world.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:45:41 +0000

Am using Vienna and very happy with it.

By: darrellgrundy

darrellgrundy — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:07:39 +0000

Very interesting article, and it gave me hope. I had a clean-out of blabber-mouths in my Twitter account, Follow’d a few of you insightful writers, reviewed the resulting news feed and was bored after a couple of minutes. There’s just so much mindless dross compared to a good NewsRob offline cache hooked up to Google Reader. I am not converted.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:06:13 +0000

I agree with Ithaca. I seldom get on twitter because I can’t just scan it. It is like obtuse code written by someone who doesn’t get why x and y and myStr (etc) are horrible variable names.

By: ubuntoid

ubuntoid — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:27:37 +0000

RSS feeds are how the social filter finds the news to share in the first place.

By: yt75

yt75 — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:01:40 +0000

I for sure wouldn’t read that without an RSS reader (netvibes).
Although true I might stop reading MI anyway, not because of social, but more for him being such a prototype of the boring pseudo intellectual media optimist half blind analysis crowd.
Better stick to a few sources for things that matter, and for this RSS is indeed very practical.

By: Mark Mascarenhas

Mark Mascarenhas — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:52:55 +0000

News news news – is that all yiu care about ?? I read blogs for long form commentary, essays etc. RSS and Google Reader helped me receive and organize 300 feeds-not one of them was news! And the few ads that I ever clicked on were on those blogs. Google Reader should have been monetizable. (And damn ‘Social’ btw)

By: Gustavo Lapido Loureiro

Gustavo Lapido Loureiro — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:48:11 +0000

Tom, would you recommend a couple of desktop-based readers?