> The organic variety of internet destinations of those days in particular Ironically, this is what a lot of people criticised Google Reader for: "it's killing

> The organic variety of internet destinations of those days in particular Ironically, this is what a lot of people criticised Google Reader for: "it's killing variety in the space, empowering Google to control the RSS ecosystem as a whole". Which it did - the death of Reader was the death of that ecosystem.