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Reading Into the End of Google Reader
- jamesbritt 14y agoThis, for me, is the money quote: Of course, my surprise and sense of outrage is misplaced. Google is a business, and it's participating in a trend toward facilitated helplessness, giving us walled gardens in which we can relax and easily share information among a socially similar circle, where our likes and dislikes and interrelationships can be coaxed into view, recorded, and monetized and where the information environment is shaped to fit our profile rather than our curiosity. [F]acilitated helplessness is the enemy we need to watch for and fight.