On RSS Readers, Divorce and Marriage

In just a few days, Google Reader will be history.  I've used it to create over 18,000 Tweets, so yes, I will miss Google Reader.  The end has pushed me into a divorce (or maybe it's just a separation?!) — from Google.  I describe my Google divorce as kind of like when a married couple with children decide to separate … they still have to see their exes for the sake of the kids (and I still have my blogs with Google's Blogger, for now anyway), and it may be a cordial, but not quite blissful separation, but is still necessary.A number of my fellow diabetes blogging peers have already migrated from Google's Blogger to Wordpress (which offers its own RSS reader, incidentally) over the years because of the expanded functionality there.  I've actually thought about doing that, too, and I've had a Wordpress account for several years (mostly to claim the user name), so it remains theoretically possible that I could someday move my blogs there (I have another blog called "Harvest Gold Memories" which shares the sstrumello.com domain name, the difference being that's at "HGM" rather than "Blog" at the beginning, in other words http://hgm.sstrumello.com, rather than http://blog.sstrumello.com), but I've got so much going on right now, I don't want to deal with trying to import my customized blog templates over to Wordpress, so I'll stick with Blogger right now.  Down the road, all bets are off.By the way, feel free to skip around this po...
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