Anyone have any advice on how to work around the sudden disappearance of the “share” feature in Google Reader? I was really enjoying having a efficient way to point readers towards worthy posts by other people. Got another feed reader you recommend?
Anyone have any advice on how to work around the sudden disappearance of the “share” feature in Google Reader? I was really enjoying having a efficient way to point readers towards worthy posts by other people. Got another feed reader you recommend?
Ah, I have researched. Apparently Google wants me to +1 or be gone. Need to think about that one.
Yeah, I think they’re undermining themselves (again, Buzz was a flop) by forcing people to use it this way.
Another blog I read decided to switch to a comment format that requires me to register for a particular platform. I’m not going to do it, so… no more comments from me? I just don’t get it.
It’s very weird what these companies do. I quit bothering with putting any effort into facebook, after I went through a lot of trouble to set it up how I wanted it (using the standard features fb offered), and then arrived one day to discover everything had been tossed out. Um, okay, not going through that again. [I still use fb, but only the bare minimum.]
I don’t know what I’m going to do about this one. It doesn’t look like putting my time and effort into google+ is going to let me do what I want. (Maybe it will — it’s all a top secret, you have to register to find out what the thing is and how it works and all). We’ll see. If enough people love it, or I just have to for whatever reason, then I will. Otherwise, no.
The way I’ve worked around it is that I had public tags…so instead of just having my shared stuff, I had a shared tag called “worth reading.” I had another one for my articles in various places (“in other places”). I can’t use the little bookmarklet anymore (they don’t support it). I couldn’t figure out how to tell you to set one up, though. I’m not sure if you can but you might try researching it.
Google+ is ok … quite a lot like Facebook, in fact, although it seems to me that people actually have more substantial conversations there. I +1 posts, but I also drop them into Facebook … mostly because I have many friends there who’d never see anything from me otherwise.
I spend very little time in either otherwise, but I do see people clicking through to read things from both places.
melissa wiley has blogged about this and shared what her alternates are: melissawiley.com/blog
Like the new look!
Julie, Sarah & Entropy – thank you! I’ll take a look tonight.
(And yes, Entropy — glad you like it. I wasn’t 100% sure, but I was ready for something new and perky. I’m cleaning my house out too. It feels like January — powerful urge to change things.)