Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
The reason the death of Google Reader matters, here, is that it marks a pivotal moment in the deliberate and engineered shrinking of the internet. When Google Reader died, article discovery shifted. People were no longer reading RSS feeds, finding new sites, following them, and being updated when those sites posted. Instead, they were scrolling on
... See moreThe largest crowds are drawn by the storytellers. It is around them that the people throng most densely and stay longest... their words come from further off and hang longer in the air than those of ordinary people.