yeah, this is really pretty darn lame. I think I've probably been using reader for nearly a decade now (or almost at least) and honestly, it's my start page, and the one I hit more often than ANY other page on the internet. think of all the linking, think of all the tabs I spawn out of there. Think of all the MEDIA and publishing companies and sites that uses it to filter the flood gates of the internet.. I'm really pretty surprised. I'm meeting with some Sr. Mgmt at goog later in the week and will certainly be letting them know that I think this is a bone head move. Yeah, the numbers are probably not there, but think about that TARGET audience.

Honestly, if I had to think about it Google Reader is one of the things on the internet that I WOULD pay for, at LEAST 20-25$ a year (must save me 100X times in time saved alone)

As the alternative, feedly seems okay. The fact that they are currently engaged with Google to basically fully integrate the API and the code/views in the feedly platform means that they could simply take over the lost souls (again, many of whom I would predict would pay for proper access)