Arstechnica has the story, though I heard it from google themselves when I went to reader this morning, as I do every morning!
Here is google’s spring cleaning announcement (which also looks like they are getting rid of CalDAV, so looks like no more interface with iCal. Yipee, thanks Google and FU!).
Honestly while it took me a while to get to RSS, it is how I interact with the internet, not through crappy social sites like Facebook or especially Google +. It is what I do on my iPad (thanks to REEDER, which uses Google Reader as a back end) and on any computer I work at. I log into GMAIL and Google Reader.
Hell this makes me think I need to stop relying so heavily on GMAIL as Google will likely kill it one day with little notice. And how about Blogger? Will they be next? What else is google going to kill?
There is a petition on Change.org that already has over 40,000 signatures in 2 hours! So please sign it.
In the mean time I am trying out NewsBlur which costs $12 a year, but gets it feeds from your Google Reader feeds, so at least you have the same feeds set up. Still the interface is certainly not as easy or as quick as Reader. AAARRGHHHHH!!!!