Because my Internet addiction requires automated tools to support, having Google announce that their Reader application is going down come July was annoying. Where appropriate, Reader is largely how I stay on stop of things that I care to stay on top of, and catch up with things that I miss. I treated it as my "choice meats" of the Internet, giving cognitive surplus first to my feeds, then to having the rest of the Internt wash over me like warm surf.

But anyhow. A tool is a tool. And it's time to migrate.

I'm currently looking at The Old Reader (theoldreader.com) to see how it matches up. I'm not sure I like that I can't group my feeds into tags/folders, but maybe I shouldn't have 100 feeds to clutter the screen to begin with (paired down from 140, I'll have you know). I enjoy that it has the "sharing" feature Google Reader had prior to Google Plus migration. If enough people were on there, I would feel slightly less guilty about littering somebody's inbox with horrible shit (imgur.com).

Or, you know, go play outside or something. Or shorten your URLs for Twitter.

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