{"id":1003,"date":"2013-07-02T18:50:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T13:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2013-07-02T16:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T10:35:41","slug":"my-google-reader-stats-rip-google-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/my-google-reader-stats-rip-google-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"My Google Reader stats &#8211; RIP Google Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google just discontinued its RSS reader today \u2013 \u00a0RIP Google Reader.<\/p>\n<p>They launched Google Reader on <a title=\"Wikipedia - Google Reader\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Reader\" target=\"_blank\">October 7, 2005<\/a>. I discovered and started using it to read feeds since\u00a0October 30, 2006 just after a set of new features were implemented.<\/p>\n<p>The impact it had on how I discovered, curated and consumed data has been phenomenal.\u00a0In \u00a06 years, 8 months, I read close to 166k posts. That\u2019s a whopping 68 articles, posts, blogs & pictures that I viewed everyday! The following stats just summarize, my reading patterns. I have about 90 pages, out of which 88 are active, that I regularly follow using their feeds not to mention the occasional use of Reader Play.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogs \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a021<\/li>\n<li>Facebook Feed \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01<\/li>\n<li>Twitter Feed \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a07<\/li>\n<li>Finance \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a07<\/li>\n<li>Google Related \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 19<\/li>\n<li>Marketing \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 6<\/li>\n<li>Photography \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a09<\/li>\n<li>Tech Stuff \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a016<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Toons \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1007\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1007\" alt=\"Summary\" src=\"http:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Read-items-440x72.png\" width=\"440\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Read-items-440x72.png 440w, https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Read-items-620x102.png 620w, https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Read-items.png 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004\" alt=\"Last 30 days reading\" src=\"http:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chart-l30d-440x153.png\" width=\"440\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chart-l30d-440x153.png 440w, https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chart-l30d.png 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last 30 days reading<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1005\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1005\" alt=\"Reading by day of week\" src=\"http:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chart-DoW-440x153.png\" width=\"440\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chart-DoW-440x153.png 440w, https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chart-DoW.png 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reading by day of week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1006\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1006\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1006\" alt=\"Reading by time of day\" src=\"http:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chart-Tod-440x153.png\" width=\"440\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chart-Tod-440x153.png 440w, https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chart-Tod.png 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reading by time of day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A few more statistics that I could get out from the backup that Google Takeout provided. I would have loved to see these trends over a longer period of time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>20 people were following my reader shares and\u00a0I was following 12 people.<\/li>\n<li>I starred 16, liked 89,\u00a0made notes on 234 articles and\u00a0shared 775 articles.<\/li>\n<li>My followers shared 5311 articles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mihai Parparita wrote some <a title=\"Google Reader is Dead\" href=\"http:\/\/readerisdead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Python scripts<\/a> that download everything from your Google Reader accounts, including the entire content of the posts from your subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of days back, I moved to\u00a0<a title=\"Feedly Cloud\" href=\"http:\/\/cloud.feedly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feedly Cloud<\/a>\u00a0as well as <a title=\"Hive Reader\" href=\"http:\/\/hivereader.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hivereader<\/a>\u00a0which are neat alternative to Reader and giving both a spin simultaneously. \u00a0Feedly seems to be the most popular reader that people are switching to right now and serves my purpose well. Doesn\u2019t show any reading statistics \u00a0or have RSS sharing features as of now (shares via <a title=\"Buffer App\" href=\"http:\/\/bufferapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buffer<\/a>). \u00a0Hive looks rudimentary as compared to Feedly but has a direct share and follow features.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully both will have\u00a0more features added soon.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way,\u00a0Mihai, who spent 5 years working on Google reader, recommends <a title=\"NewsBlur\" href=\"http:\/\/newsblur.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBlur<\/a> and <a title=\"Digg Reader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/reader\" target=\"_blank\">Digg Reader<\/a> as good alternatives to reader.<\/p>\n<p>.Before I sign out, here is a <a title=\"Dave Winer, Nerd TV, Interview MP4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/cringely\/nerdtv\/player\/?show=006&ext=mp4\" target=\"_blank\">nice interview<\/a> of Dave Winer, the inventor of RSS (<a title=\"Dave Winder - Nerd TV - Transcript\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/cringely\/nerdtv\/transcripts\/006.html\" target=\"_blank\">transcript<\/a>) at PBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google just discontinued its RSS reader today \u2013 \u00a0RIP Google Reader. They launched Google Reader on October 7, 2005. I discovered and started using it to read feeds since\u00a0October 30, 2006 just after a set of new features were implemented. The impact it had on how I discovered, curated and consumed data has been phenomenal.\u00a0In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"","book_review_title":"","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"","book_review_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,10],"tags":[60,92],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rambling","category-technology","category-trends","tag-google-reader","tag-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1547139559-c89c59d117611.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}