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1 July 2013updated 12 Oct 2023 10:39am

Google Reader is dying. Here’s where to go next

Don't bury your head in the sand, switch to one of these services.

By Alex Hern

If you’re like me, you’ve greeted today’s death of Google Reader with a growing sense of dread, and stubborn refusal to do anything at all to mitigate the fact that suddenly, a key part of the infrastructure of the internet is going to be turned off and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Well, there’s good news: Google’s vaguely-defined shutdown date of “after July 1” appears to mean that you have today to panic and prepare for the future. So let’s do that together.

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