Blog Aggregator question with answers From: Dave Ewick dewick@southfieldlibrary.org To: michlib-l@mail.mcls.org Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:18:28 PM Subject: Blog Aggregators When Google Reader died I shed a tear or two. I never found another blog aggregator I really liked. Google Reader was so simple to set up and then let run - I just read the items I liked and skipped the rest. Now I find I'm missing out on things I used to keep up with easily and want to start following several blogs again. So, for those of you who read many blogs, what are you using? Any & all suggestions are welcomed. - Dave I've been really happy with Feedly (http://feedly.com). I use it mainly on my phone and iPad. - Matt Church, Director at Berkley Public Library I too was an avid Google Reader fan. I have been using Feedly. I use it on my phone and iPad, as well as my browser on my desktop at work. They have made improvements to make it more like Google Reader. - Erin Schmandt I switched to Feedly. It is easy to use and I like it. - Judy Hauser My favorite is Feedly. I used to use Google Reader as well and it was an easy transition when I had to move the feeds over. - Kathryn Ribant-Payne, Programming Specialist at Sterling Heights Public Library I have substituted theoldreader.com . I don't like the name and it lacks the feature that allows you to just e-mail things, but oh well.... - Gail Powers-Schaub, Library Director at Baker College Great question! I'm curious to hear any suggestions. I started a Feedly account when this unfortunate incident happened. Feedly is adequate, but not great. I've run into a few glitches when trying to subscribe to some of the same sites I subscribed to with Google. In addition, there's some inconsistencies with displaying some images. - Kimberly Schaaf, Librarian at Springfield Twp. Library Yes, I still miss Google Reader, but I had over 250 journals I was keeping up with, so just switched to feedly.com as suggested by Google. I still don't like it as much as reader, but they have fixed some of the more annoying glitches that they had when first started. - Molly Mahony Use feedly! I really enjoy it; it just takes a little bit to get use to. - Vicki Kouchnerkavich, Youth Services Supervisor at Henika District Library (AW) I just started using Blog Lovin', but haven't used it enough yet to decide if I like it or not. – Syntha Green I have seen positive reviews of The Old Reader ( http://theoldreader.com/%20%20%20) . Some other similar tools are Pulse, AOL Reader, Digg Reader, and Flipboard. Hope that is helpful! - Ashley Rosener, Grand Valley State University I tried a bunch and then stuck with Feedly. I don’t like it as much as Google Reader, but what can ya do? I find Twitter is increasingly my go-to site for tracking most social media and blogging activity. Most blogs tweet new posts, and those that don’t should. - Kevin Driedger, Librarian for Conservation and Digitization at Library of Michigan