Re: Sad news regarding google reader

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What has wiki.emacs.org/ got to offer in the way of self-contained rss 
readers compatible with emacs?  I need to do work on my windows emacs 
installation to get it up to where the Linux installation is but it 
would be nice to have a self-contained rss reader inside of emacs 
working on both platforms.

On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Steve Holmes wrote:

> The sad part isn't that google reader is going away. The sad part is
> this offering ran other RSS agrigators out of business and now they
> pull this rug out from under us.  We need to go back to self contained
> RSS readers.  the bad part is so many reader clients such as what run
> on mobile devices use Reader exclusively and do not store RSS feeds
> locally.  What would be much sadder is to have RSS go away entirely
> and we would be forced to use web interfaces for all our news sources.
>  I love RSS agrigation whether it is done locally on a computer or
> mobile device or if it is cloud based.  The main thing Reader was good
> for was you could sync your RSS feeds between different devices.
> 
> We should all realize that we as users of Google's free services are
> not their customers! the only customers Google has is its advertisers.
>  They couldn't make any money with Reader so throw it away along with
> any other free services they offer.
> 
> On 3/21/13, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If you haven't heard, Google is shutting down Google Reader on July 1.
> > Maybe it'll keep on chugging and just not be supported, but I don't
> > think this is the case. I doubt Google has done much to support Google
> > Reader in the last few years anyway. I think this is more of a retasking
> > of the compute services used to serve up Google Reader. I haven't heard
> > of it being integrated into any other services. The rumor is that RSS is
> > considered irrelevant now and Google is trying to drive more traffic
> > into social networking offerings like Google Plus. I think our hope is
> > that someone else will provide a similar service with the same open
> > API's Google Reader used.
> >
> >
> > On 21/03/13 01:39, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> >> What sad news!  I use google reader every day.  I hope if that is the
> >> case, they integrate it into something else.
> >>
> >> I also use www.google.com/ig <http://www.google.com/ig> customized
> >> google home page - I can get all my bookmarks no matter where I am in
> >> the world and other things right there where I need them.  Google said
> >> that was going to go, but it is still there and I use it all the time.
> >>
> >> Oh, what a cruel world!
> >>
> >> David
> >> David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA <http://www.qsl.net/n1ea/>  Radio-Officers
> >> Group <http://groups.google.com/group/radio-officers?hl=en> -- Join CW
> >> email list <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/cw%20> -- Historic
> >> Morse Recordings <http://tiny.cc/n1ea>
> >> *Gopher Hole:*  gopher://sdf.org/1/users/djringjr/
> >> <gopher://sdf.org/1/users/djringjr/> (native or with Firefox's
> >> Overbite extension) or via http to gopher gateway
> >> <http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org/1/users/djringjr/>
> >> *C**hat* Skype: djringjrMSN: djringjr@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> <mailto:djringjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>AIM: N1EAicq: 27380609
> >>
> >> =30=
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> <mailto:tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>     Is anyone else as disappointed as me about the news Google plans to
> >>     retire
> >>     reader soon? I've really enjoyed using google reader since Raman
> >>     added the
> >>     greader client.
> >>
> >>     Any recommendations on other good RSS readers/aggregators for emacs
> >>     which
> >>     provides similar functionality to greader?
> >>
> >>     Tim
> >>
> >>     --
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> >>
> >>     Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It
> >>     takes a
> >>     touch of genius (and a lot of courage) to move in the opposite
> >>     direction.
> >>                                                                ?Albert
> >>     Einstein
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > --
> > Christopher (CJ)
> > chaltain at Gmail
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