I’ve used RSS feeds for quite awhile now to keep up with blogs I enjoy. I also use it to follow scholarly journals of interest. Unfortunately, my current feed reader of choice (Digg Reader) is shutting down.

This is the second time my feed reader has shuttered (I used Google Reader before that shut down as well). Another particular problem I never really solved was link rot. Google reader has some metrics where you could see old feeds that have not had any new posts for awhile. Digg had no such service, and I tried my hand at writing python code to do this myself, but that code never quite worked out.

To partially replace this service instead of migrating to another feed reading service I will give Twitter a shot. Twitter is a bit chaotic from what I can tell — I much prefer the spreadsheet like listing of just a title to peruse news and events of interest in the morning. I had been using Google+ and like it (yes, I know I’m one of those nerds), but it is a bit of a ghost-town. So I will migrate entirely over to Twitter and give it a shot.