On The Death Of Google Reader And The Future Of Reading

You can’t say they didn’t warn you. On Monday, Google Reader will no longer be available. The search behemoth is putting its RSS reader to rest, leaving millions of dedicated users scrambling to find other platforms for organization of their news feeds and content exploration.

One of the leading contenders in the race to replace Google Reader is the recently relaunched Digg Reader. The man behind the effort is CEO Andrew McLaughlin. A former vice president of Tumblr, he also served as the White House’s deputy chief technology officer and headed up global public policy at Google. As Wired magazine puts it in a recent profile, “Dude has bona fides.”

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