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Occupy Google
By adamg on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 12:14pm
Forget Wall Street and Whole Foods - this is important: A group of users of Google Reader are planning "a wake" outside Google's Cambridge offices at 5:30 p.m.
We'll be mourning together outside the closest Google office, in Cambridge, near Kendall Square, where perhaps a Google employee or two will briefly notice our useless grief.
Bring flowers or signs or memes or eulogies. Wear black if you can.
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Not sure . . .
. . . What the point the protesters are making here- but Google, as a search engine to find what you are looking for, is becoming worse by the day. Makes a lot of money I'm sure right now- but it won't be for much longer is my guess.
I use it
to follow uhub and others. What I've heard is that Google is changing the Reader UI and removing the social networking functionality to merge it with G+.
Some people are not happy about that, as they prefer the current model.
I've heard also that Iranian users take advantage of Google Reader social networking because they are blocked from the "usual" sites. That will no longer be possible. Not sure...
I've never used the social
I've never used the social aspect of Google Reader, but the redesign is so awful I completely agree with the protesters. There are no lines to mark different sections, they removed the gode navigation bar button, the higher end graphics make it load incredbily slowly, there's an excess of blank space, and so on and so forth.
Agree
I know they're protesting (really, mourning) the loss of the social features. But I used sharing sparingly and I still hate the redesign. It's an awful waste of browser real estate. I'm already looking for a better-designed aggregator.
FeedDemon, at least, for Windows
And it integrates with Google Reader, no less.
I used to love it. Still would if it could better handle 1,000 feeds at once (what? a little excessive?). Alas, it doesn't, so count me among the people who doesn't much like the redesigned Google Reader UI (it's like staring into the endless void of nothingness now).
Any recs for the Mac users?
Any recs for the Mac users? I've been looking around but have come up empty so far.
A couple
How about the venerable NetNewsWire and Reeder?
Seconded
I use FeedDemon as well to read UHub and a bunch of other stuff. It does bog down a little if you click into a massively long list, but if you regularly read a smaller set of feeds it works pretty well for that.
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FWP
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I hope the irony isn't lost on them
Using Facebook to organize their wake for Google Reader because it merged with G+.
Ow...I think I just sprained something rolling my eyes that hard.
Protest within a protest
They should also protest the lack of event functionality similar to facebook's within the Google+ feature set.
Or would that be getting too meta?
Enough of the showboating
These performance art type protests with zombies and wakes and whatnot are becoming tiresome and only showcase the excess free time some people have on their hands. I wish they would use some of it to try to come up with some legitimate solutions to what they feel is wrong. Or maybe they are and I don't know it, but I haven't yet seen anything constructive come from the spate of recent protests by these amateurs.
This is why we need a draft
So now protests are in fashion, because people have nothing better to do.
Next up, the protest near McDonalds against the end of the McRib. Please bring your cholesterol results and a vomit bag.
You know, it is times like these that people should remember despite the cries about police brutality, no one is firing an automatic weapon into them like they did in countries like...Iraq...Libya...The Philliphines....Burma...Hondurus.
So as you are making my commute home to my wife and children longer because you are clogging up Kendall square, I will wish once more for a draft to thin the herd of the entitled, and the stupid. I'd vote for mandatory military sevice, it might make you realize that hardship is not having a slow internet connection.
Um...
I know these people, and while they are sad to lose their favorite internet social space, they're not exactly an entitled mob. First of all, they'd be too old for your magical hippie-killing draft. Second of all, they are able to express their disapproval at a business's decision in any manner they so choose AND care about the rest of the world.
Plus, they're not all that serious anyway, so you can give your high horse a rest. Sounds like he needs it.
The Reader/+ integration has
The Reader/+ integration has already led me to use + more in one day than I have since I signed up for the service. As for the whiners who want to mourn it, the functionality for reading is still pretty much the same.
Urgh.
Google products are quickly becoming inaccessible to me. The "new look" of Google docs is designed in such a way that, due to a disability I have, it is close to impossible for me to get anything actually done. And don't get me started on YouTube. Or the fact that I can't be in my YT and Docs accounts at the same time (my computer can't handle another browser).
There needs to be an UN-occupy Google. A boycott. That's what needs to happen.