My much loved bloglines account has got to go. After 6 plus years of faithful service (an eternity in web terms) Ask have seen fit to kill it off.
Apparently no one reads RSS anymore (stats for Google Reader use suggest something different) – all part of the death of the blog meme (see also, Death of the blog comment and so on). All the cool kids are on twitter. So why am I so annoyed? Bloglines didn’t ever develop much (I tried the major revision they released and soon retreated to the basic old version) but it did a pretty good job of the task in hand. Reading was quick and I saved the things I either couldn’t follow up immediately or wanted to hang on to. I never noticed the problems others alleged with outages and the Bloglines Plumber.
So what? Just move to Google Reader like most people have already. Problem is I already have a Google Reader account used for a Current Awareness Service. I can have two Google Accounts logged in at once but it gets all tangled on itself quite frequently. Thus far I don’t particularly like Google Reader as a user experience either.
Oh and of course I work mostly in IE6 land. So everytime I go into Google Reader it suggests I need to upgrade my software. And Google are definitely starting to get more aggressive not even allowing IE6 folk to use some of their products (hurrah no Google Instant for me!) so I may be out on my ear in the not too distant future.
Others have said it but once more with feeling – thanks Ask – thanks a lot.
(the) health informaticist 
I feel your pain. I had a bunch of stuff saved in my Bloglines account. And now, I am a refugee in RSS land having moved to Google Reader, which I agree, I dont like as a user either.
I love the post-Christmas dip each year in RSS usage in the second graph.
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