Thursday, March 14, 2013

And again..

So I open the Google reader and the message "Google reader will no longer be active after July 1 this year"... GREAT SH FU CRAP.. You know everything I could say I did and.. There really is no surprise here because last year about this time I got the i-Google to be just about set the way I wanted it and then a message appeared in the heading "i-Google will stop in November" and again I get screwed by Google.. This just keeps happening.. I was using bookmarks and that was great then a little over a year ago they updated to a no folder type of idea so if you have a thousand bookmarks they are just scattered willy nilly and all I could think was get a new bookmark site QUICKLY  and so I did, taking all my bookmarks to another site took a few days.. Then I took a lot of the bookmarks to RSS feeds and used reader to access them. How cool was that? well I knew it was too good to be true and today started the process of getting a new reader or in my case two or three..  Let's see,  bookmarks, i-Google (homepage) and now reader.. That's STRIKE THREE .. Guess what Google, I'm gonna one up you.. I'm gonna move everything I do off your fucking service.. The last entry for PNOP will in fact be December 27 as I set it up to be.. I'll find a new blog site and leave Blogger.. I will find a new video hosting site and leave YouTube..  I will shut my email site down.. I rarely visited Google plus and so that will be easy to ditch.. In short, I'm gonna try to beat Google to the punch by leaving everything I do there ...  Just a good Idea to me... Keep in touch, I will link to the new sites here and PNOP as well as Facebook and Twitter..

Badge Henry

(P.S.  after writing this entry I went and looked at the Google blog site (the Google blog) and read their reasoning for getting rid of reader.. Seems that the multimillion users they were hoping to get to use reader never got a hold..  They got a good number of users but.. I think the internet has so many ways of getting the news, reader was a way for me to not just get the news, but also check sites that matter the most.. When I started to look at what I currently have on reader it appears that I have just one shitload of a lot of RSS feeds.. I entered into quite a few sites to try to take the place of the Google reader and they are just    not..  Google Reader.. So what to do??  Well I start the day with a speed dial type of thing that is my "homepage" and it has every site that isn't in reader either because they don't have a RSS or whatever, and that means I check quite a few before even getting to reader.. Reader represents over a thousand sites, of which just like cable tv I only look at a handful.. So what was the big deal about losing reader??  I hated losing it but in the end will adapt to either having them moved to the speed dial, or moving a smaller amount to another reader.. Transfer is easy, at least the dipshits at Google did that for their faithful users.. Sadly the other sites aren't nearly what reader is, and so I will change to whichever I like and hold onto that.. So far that site is yet to show itself.. As far as changing to another video site, there are about 300 to chose from with the sites that are on Roku being the favorite.. But I think roku can have any number that I am looking at such as veoh.. Not sure I will leave Youtube but every other site will be.. I figure Blogger will be next to be cut, I think the five hundred million users just won't be enough..)

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