With the ending of Google Reader, this past few weeks has seen many users fleeing to other sources to provide them with their aggregated news content. Here are a couple great alternatives:

The Old Reader

TinyTinyRSS

While reading about Google Reader, I came upon a few pages that were quite interesting:

What is Google doing? (an opinion piece from Reuters)

The Google Graveyard (leave flowers on the grave of your favorite deceased Google services)

Mario Loria is a builder of diverse infrastructure with modern workloads on both bare-metal and cloud platforms. He's traversed roles in system administration, network engineering, and DevOps. You can learn more about him here.