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Thank you for the heads up David
For the benefit of a certain company that used to promise to “do no evil” — I suspect that at least half of your readers that use your site (ie not just the republishers) use RSS.
I simply don’t have time to visit dozens of blogs and news sites every day — even if I focused on the “best ones”. Consumers’ time is valuable, even if the silicon valley billionaires don’t care.
I stopped reading several sites that stopped RSS … their content is probably still good, but my life isn’t about visiting websites purely to generate ad-clicks or increment visitor counters.
This is the internet age: waste my time, there are 1000 other sites that won’t. Show me a post I want to read, then I will visit your site.
I usually click through the RSS reader to visit Aleph Blog, not because some ad agency forces me, but because I want to. That, Silicon valley billionaires, is the future of the internet.
Thank you David for writing such a great blog
As a long time FeedDemon user, I found that RSSOwl provides a similar and easy to set up desktop alternative that does not rely on Google Reader