Old Reader Officially Staying Open to the Public

It's official. Old Reader will stay open to the public.

 "We’re pleased to announce that The Old Reader will officially remain open to the public! The application now has a bigger team, significantly more resources, and a new corporate entity in the United States. We’re incredibly excited to be a part of this great web application and would like to share some details about its future as well as thank you for remaining loyal users. We’re big fans and users of The Old Reader and look forward to helping it grow and improve for years to come."

Read the details here


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Old Reader is Going Private - Time to Choose a New RSS Reader

Old Reader is going private in the next two weeks. So if you switched to Old Reader as your solution to Google Reader being canned, you need to find another one. Here are the details on Old Reader Blog as to why and when they are closing Old Reader to the public  "Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures"

If you are looking for a new RSS Reader here's a few you might want to take a look at:

NewsBlur.com: Right now they are not accepting free accounts. I tried to sign up this morning and there are 2100 people waiting ahead of me for a free account. For $24.00 a year you can get a premium account immediately. Free accounts have a cap of 64 sites. I may try this one as the demo looked like it would do what I want.

Feedly.com: This is pretty popular and it synched Google Reader feeds seamlessly before Google Reader was canned.  I'm on Feedly but have to admit I'm looking for a replacement. It is the most popular of RSS Readers but it just doesn't suit my needs.

Pulse: I use Pulse on my iPad and I really like it. It's more visually oriented than most readers but for iPad use I like that.

NetVibes.com: I signed up for a free account on NetVibes this morning. It's easy to set up, you pick a topic of your own choice or one of their popular ones, and NetVibes starts creating a dashboard for you. After it created my Genealogy topic, it pulled in hundreds of news stories, blogs and videos for me.  Don't worry, you can import specific blogs or websites. So far I am really liking NetVibes

IronReader: This RSS Reader is getting some good press. I haven't tried it so can't comment but you may want to check it out.

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Finding a Genealogy Blog to Follow

How do you find genealogy blogs you want to read? There are so many out there that it's impossible to read them all.

Here are two ways of finding a blog or two that you enjoy:

1. The Genealogy News service was launched in July 2010 - available in a daily or weekly edition - which gets delivered right to your email inbox. Over 30,000 genealogists have signed up to receive this FREE service that highlights items published at Genealogy Today, along with news stories from top genealogy bloggers and publishers. Signup at http://www.TheGenealogyNews.com/

2. If you want to choose from thousands of genealogy focused blogs, here's a list of over 2500. You'll have to take a quick look at each one to decide which appeal to you http://www.geneabloggers.com/genealogy-blogs/

I subscribe to most of my chosen genealogy blogs in Google Reader. That allows me to go to one site and read all my chosen blogs there.  And I'm signed up to get a daily email of The Genealogy News which gives me the top genealogy blog stories of the day.