[vineet]

If Google is shutting down reader, are they going to remove RSS feeds from Blogger? What about Feedburner?

I think Google's better move would have been cut a few features and 'Plus-ify' Reader - kinda like they have been doing with their other products. They would have evolved an important user base, shown commitment to the RSS standard, and kept a number of important apps using their api's.

Aren't they after all supposed to be championing the open web?

I don't think this is intentional, but it now hard to argue againsT people saying that they intentionally waited till they killed the RSS readers market and then shut down their product.

[camus]

blogger and feedburner are next. They want you to move to spooky G+ ...