{"id":48616,"date":"2014-12-02T18:08:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/google-reader-is-now-really-dead.html"},"modified":"2014-12-02T18:08:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:08:18","slug":"google-reader-is-now-really-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/google-reader-is-now-really-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Reader is now REALLY dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently the Google Reader back-end has been still chugging along on life support, providing a variety of quiet services (only the front-end having been taken out behind the barn and shot<\/del> sent out to the country where it could romp and play with other retired Google products).<\/i><\/p>\n

Until November 14th, when apparently someone got around to unplugging the server.<\/p>\n

Which makes perfect sense, because it was right about then when a script call I had in the sidebar of my blog, which was pulling on a list of sites in one of my old Google Reader groups to serve as a link list, suddenly stopped working.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>John E. Bredehoft<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Shawn Rossi<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nSo long, Zombie Google Reader | FeedBlitz – Email Marketing and RSS<\/a><\/span>
\nWe all know how to stop a zombie, right? Get it in the head. Fine in the movies or “The Walking Dead,” but it’s not so simple for zombie products or technologies. Case in point: Google Reader. The product was “killed” by Google in the middle of 2013, and it was no longer available to end users.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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