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Google has retired its very pop­u­lar reader despite pub­lic cry. Of course, a whole lot of 3rd party soft­ware devel­op­ers have stepped up to fill in their shoes…

Thats is not the ques­tion though. I think Google is send­ing a mes­sage that blogs as a means of infor­ma­tion cre­ation & con­sump­tion is no longer accept­able to the grow­ing pop­u­la­tion of the Inter­webs. Of course, blogs will remain a means for long reads — but who has the time to do that these days?

RSS as a pro­to­col, will prob­a­bly con­tinue to exist and be used in sev­eral other forms.…this post is not about the devel­op­ment aspects of the blogs, but more so about the con­cept of what blogs are about.

When I started this blog sev­eral years ago, it is purely per­sonal and a means to keep my notes acces­si­ble via the Inter­net. Soon, I real­ized that my notes can pos­si­bly help other fel­low Pho­tog­ra­phers, and decided to open them up to pub­lic con­sump­tion. I have not really been keep­ing a track of how many read it, nor be inter­ested in doing it.

These days, there are tools to do this exact thing — Google recently released a new tool called Keep, to do just this. Of course, I have already been using Ever­note for sev­eral years now, and I am in no hurry to switch. Granted, that Google makes no guar­an­tee to keep the “Keep” around for a while.…given their recent deci­sion on Reader.

I am mov­ing my activ­i­ties to other forums such as Google+, Face­book, Red­dit and Twit­ter! Feel free to fol­low me on any of the above social cir­cles. I am reach­able at umesh@8thcross.com