Bloglines Shutdown Avoided

angry tapir writes "Pioneer RSS feed manager Bloglines will continue operating thanks to a last-minute agreement for MerchantCircle to take over operation of the service from Ask.com. Ask.com, which announced it would shut down Bloglines by Oct. 1 and then postponed the closure several times, said that MerchantCircle, an online network for local business owners, will manage Bloglines starting in December."

Thank god for that

[$RANDOMLUSER]

There aren't enough blog sites.

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[mr_mischief]

Just think: the raving madness and blatant inaccuracies of Bloglines now brought to you by the folks who bring you the raving madness and blatant inaccuracies at MerchantCircle!

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[Shmoe]

Never mind the fact that bloglines is an rss aggregator much like google reader. How bout some rtfa'ing up in this piece?

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[Jurily]

How bout some rtfa'ing up in this piece?

You must be new here.

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[Shmoe]

I've always been more of a lurker, but if you'd like to get into a uid war -- let's rumble :)

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[davester666]

So you're not new. You're obviously just a slow learner...

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[$RANDOMLUSER]

Oh for Christ's sake. A website going out of business for lack of income is hardly evidence of "them" censoring or oppressing you. The world does not owe you a forum in perpetuity for your rambling musings. If they're actually interesting, someone will keep them alive. 99.999% of all blogs are egotistical bullshit, They just have a larger vocabulary (and LOTS and LOTS more words) than your average tweet.

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[drinkypoo]

YHBT.

HTH, HAND.

With that said: if you want a perpetual forum for rambling musings, there is web hosting. It comes with a bill, but it's like eight bucks a month and it has so many uses.

MerchantsCircle, eh?

[ThatsNotPudding]

Note to self: delete Bloglines account before the data harvest begins.

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[alen]

just use Google, they won't harvest your data

to big to fail!

[Combatso]

Thank god bloglines remains.. there were 10's of dollars at stake

Too late - I switched to my own aggregator

[Call Me Black Cloud]

When Bloglines first annouced the shutdown I looked for a good replacment (didn't like Google Reader) and found an open source solution. I installed Tiny Tiny RSS on a shared hosting account and it's as good as Bloglines, better, actually because the uptime is greater. http://tt-rss.org/redmine/ [tt-rss.org]

Too late - I switched to Google Reader

[danheretic]

Out of laziness I switched to Google Reader. Now out of laziness I don't feel like switching back. I'll bet most people are in this boat (switched already.) So much for a last-minute save for Bloglines.

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[Perky_Goth]

Pretty much. Especially with Bloglines problems at updating feeds.