Gordon's Tech

Update 2/19/2024 : I did this using my free IFTT account but per IFTT "Starting February 15th, 2024, webhooks Applets will be disconnec...

Eons ago I wrote using my TrueName. In those days the sun was brighter, the snow softer, Google was good, and unicorns danced on rainbows. T...

On the Day of the Dapocalypse Google ended Google Reader Share , though  my old shares are still accessible  almost a year later. Google le...

alpha.app.net, the test bed for app.net development, is improving quickly. it's a bit hard to find, but there are now feeds for user pos...

Despite concerns about too many moving parts , I'm still using Reeder, Pinboard and IFTTT as my core information process workflow. I jus...

I was quite pleased with my jury rigged replacement for my long lost Google Reader Shares . (Few remember them now, the net years have passe...

A few weeks after Google 2.0 killed Google Reader Social , I decided I'd take the Twitter route . My Twitter feed was active for about...

I haven't found a replacement for the rough annotation-share-feed ecosystem that had grown up around Google Reader Social (RIP). I'...

Weeks after Google's Day of Infamy i'm still failing to fully replace Google Reader Shares . Recently I gave up on Tumblr, Postero ...

When G+ Profiles first appeared, I recall that public posts had feeds. Those feeds disappeared. Now G+ is more of a walled garden than Face...

I got pretty far along on the Tumblr alternative to Reader Shares . I even created a kateva.org subdomain with a Tumblr IP A Record to give ...

When a character in Charles Stross' Accelerando loses his prosthetic brain he's almost helpless; effectively amnestic. It's the...

(cross posted to Gordon's Notes and Gordon's Tech ) Google Reader shares are gone . I'm not going to switch to sharing via G+...