DON'T BLAME THE OTHER BROTHER IF YOUR RSS FEED STOPPED:

Destruction Of Bloglines Now Complete; Founder Prepares To Switch To Google Reader (Michael Arrington, October 18, 2008, Tech Crunch)

Users who hadn’t already left Bloglines for Google Reader and other functional RSS readers are doing so now, largely because Bloglines has stopped working and the company has done absolutely nothing to communicate to users what is going on or when it might be fixed.

Even Bloglines founder Mark Fletcher, who sold the company to Ask.com in 2005, is ready to jump ship. In a Twitter message yesterday he said “Bloglines, please stop sucking. It’s been a couple weeks now. I don’t want to have to move to Google Reader. Sigh.”

Thanks to RSS feeds it is possible to whittle your email load down to a minimal level and track numerous sites quite efficiently. But that requires a working reader. We use Google Reader and it works well.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 20, 2008 7:28 AM