{"id":23148,"date":"2011-10-22T17:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T23:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/22\/unblogged-bits-sat-22-oct-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2011-10-22T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T23:30:33","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-22-oct-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/22\/unblogged-bits-sat-22-oct-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 22-Oct-11 1730)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Petition to Google: don’t kill Google Reader<\/a> – I like that the petition is being done through Google Docs.<\/li>\n
  2. Wherein I try to explain why Google Reader is the best social network created so far \u00ab Here is a thing.<\/a> – The writer isn’t completely accurate about some of the limits of Plus, and is certainly more vested in their Reader community than I am … but the point that not all communities need or want to interact in the same way, or that folks may belong to more than one community — or that bouncing between two Google sites might be less convenient than staying in the one that does the job for you. I can conceive of ways that the Reader \/ Plus link might more seamless (similar to how Reader comments and Buzz and email have become), but I don’t see that happening from the start, if at all.<\/li>\n
  3. The Unsocial Network: Why Google Is Wrong to Kill Off Google Reader – Forbes<\/a> – Note: Google Reader is not<\/b> being “killed off.” It will still (for the nonce) remain as a fine RSS reader. But it is getting a large chunk of its utility amputated in favor of a less-perfect prosthetic. I will still be able to read the wide array of sites I do now — but I won’t be able to share the things I think are worth sharing, nor see what others I follow deem worthy of sharing. I’ll be able to do so, maybe, in Plus, but much less conveniently (a page of partial-text\/illustrated Plus posts is a lot less convenient than a lengthy title list of posts that I can skim through quickly. Plus is certainly prettier, and even arguably better for casual browsing, but not for a full-blown information exchange. As things stand, I’ll still be using Reader, but it will be less convenient and less informative than it is now.<\/li>\n
  4. Western Digital buys Hitachi, Seagate buys Samsung<\/a> – “Will having only two major makers of hard drives make it easier to raise prices?” Um … duh?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Petition to Google: don’t kill Google Reader – I like that the petition is being done through Google Docs. Wherein I try to explain why Google Reader is the best social network created so far \u00ab Here is a … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 22-Oct-11 1730)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31651,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/08\/remembering-google-reader.html","url_meta":{"origin":23148,"position":0},"title":"Remembering Google Reader","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 8-Dec-12 11:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"I was a heavy, heavy, heavy Google Reader user, and nobody was more ticked off at its \"gelding\" as Google Plus was rolled out than I was.Today? \u00a0Google Plus to me is more successful as a social platform (its design), and in provoking discussions. \u00a0I have become engaged with additional\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23135,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/google-reader-google-plus-and-the-fud-factor.html","url_meta":{"origin":23148,"position":1},"title":"Google Reader, Google Plus, and the FUD Factor","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Oct-11 12:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"Note: Folks who aren't interested in Technical Web Stuff should move along to the next post, or look at cute kittens or something. 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