How to Keep Following eagereyes After the End of Google Reader

With Google Reader shutting down July 1st, now is the time to find alternative ways to follow your favorite blogs. For this one, you can now get new postings on Facebook and through a dedicated Twitter feed, in addition to the RSS feed. See below for some RSS aggregator/reader alternatives to Google Reader.

I don’t use Facebook and Twitter to follow feeds, that’s what I have my RSS reader for. But for people who like doing that, perhaps using Flipboard or similar, I have now created pure feed accounts. No talking, just links to new postings.

There’s still my personal Twitter account, of course, where I will also retweet the new posting tweets.

Luckily, I never trusted feedburner, so almost 90% of you are subscribed to the feed URL on my website directly. This used to point to feedburner (via some redirect magic), but I switched that a few weeks ago, when Google announced the end of Reader. Feedburner is not on the chopping block yet, but it can’t be far behind.

Some time this or next week, I will completely phase out feedburner. If you’re following this site using the feedburner feed, you will see a posting appear that will tell you where to subscribe to the original feed. As the posting will point out, you will not see any further updates in that feed (other than maybe a few nag postings [...]