I just found on the Google Reader Blog that Google Reader will be retired on July 1, 2013. Uh, WTF! Ok then, anyone have any good suggestions as a replacement for me?
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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I already bounced a couple ideas off Blake. If you’ve got properly IMAP compliant e-mail (GMail does not count whatsoever) then rigging up rss2email on a server would at least drop feed posts in your e-mail inbox to read. Evan Prodromou was mentioning a bunch of other web-based services that can be self-hosted and there are desktop clients available like newsbeuter, canto, liferea, and Thunderbird. Mike Linksvayer also mentioned Newsblur as a possibility though it was under heavy strain at that time as people were migrating to it hurriedly.
I already bounced a couple ideas off Blake. If you’ve got properly IMAP compliant e-mail (GMail does not count whatsoever) then rigging up rss2email on a server would at least drop feed posts in your e-mail inbox to read. Evan Prodromou was mentioning a bunch of other web-based services that can be self-hosted and there are desktop clients available like newsbeuter, canto, liferea, and Thunderbird. Mike Linksvayer also mentioned Newsblur as a possibility though it was under heavy strain at that time as people were migrating to it hurriedly.