Google Reader Goes Down, Finally Some Free Time
8:10 am June 25th, 2007 by Sal Cangeloso
In some unexpected news, I woke up this morning and found that Google Reader was not working. The site itself is still working- I was able to login and to view the titles of my feed, but the only unread items were 8 posts from Memeorandum. After browsing through those I tried to refresh the page and no new stories came up. I used Reader yesterday afternoon but did not check it after 9pm last night…
It looks like this probably is relatively widespread. TechCrunch posted about it as did a few other people and there is an unofficial thread starting over at Google Groups.
Normally I would be pretty unhappy if a Google service went down, especially Gmail, but it’s refreshing not to feel obligated to read all my RSS items this morning. With something like 125 feeds there can be a lot of posts on Monday morning and I have been getting pretty burned out lately, so even after the weekend a few extra hours without my feeds will fine with me.
You still have to wonder what is going on over at Google though.
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I don’t know about “free time”. If the RSS feed reader is down, and I feel I still need the news, I have to do a lot of browsing – TechMeme and all the major sites. So, while it may have been a mini-vacation, Google Reader’s absence didn’t do me many favors.
Yes, the RSS reader saves time, but it can create a lot of extra reading too. I took the chance to limit my news this morning to Techmeme and Google News and a few other high points, not my normal 100+ feeds.
It was a nice break, but you’re right about all that extra browsing if you can’t afford to hold off on your reading for the morning…