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Bloglines Shutdown Avoided

Posted by samzenpus on from the safe-for-now dept.

angry tapir writes "Pioneer RSS feed manager Bloglines will continue operating thanks to a last-minute agreement for MerchantCircle to take over operation of the service from Ask.com. Ask.com, which announced it would shut down Bloglines by Oct. 1 and then postponed the closure several times, said that MerchantCircle, an online network for local business owners, will manage Bloglines starting in December."

3 of 24 comments (clear)

  1. Re:One mans truth is another mans lies by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh for Christ's sake. A website going out of business for lack of income is hardly evidence of "them" censoring or oppressing you. The world does not owe you a forum in perpetuity for your rambling musings. If they're actually interesting, someone will keep them alive. 99.999% of all blogs are egotistical bullshit, They just have a larger vocabulary (and LOTS and LOTS more words) than your average tweet.

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    No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
  2. Re:Thank god for that by Shmoe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Never mind the fact that bloglines is an rss aggregator much like google reader. How bout some rtfa'ing up in this piece?

  3. Re:Thank god for that by Jurily · · Score: 2, Funny

    How bout some rtfa'ing up in this piece?

    You must be new here.