But if you look around the Internet broadly, you see many, many more people online, many more people with smartphones and doing more of their reading digitally. "Most people look at the death of Google Reader and say, 'Oh, RSS readers are a dead end there's no need for them anymore.' In a narrow sense, that's true in that RSS specifically is not the most important thing for most users. What does the end of Google Reader signal for the future of how we read, watch or view media? We talked about content overload, the puzzling math behind our social media feeds and what one RSS reader's death means for reading's future.Īndrew McLaughlin is CEO of Digg and Instapaper, based in New York City. Somehow, the indefatigable McLaughlin found time to chat during the frenzied, final few days of readying Digg Reader, which went live this weekend. As Wired magazine puts it in a recent profile, "Dude has bona fides." A former vice president of Tumblr, he also served as the White House's deputy chief technology officer and headed up global public policy at Google. The man behind the effort is CEO Andrew McLaughlin. One of the leading contenders in the race to replace Google Reader is the recently relaunched Digg Reader. The search behemoth is putting its RSS reader to rest, leaving millions of dedicated users scrambling to find other platforms for organization of their news feeds and content exploration. On Monday, Google Reader will no longer be available. Google is shutting down the Google Reader on Monday.
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