[Xion]

I love how the closure of Reader reveals something about the tech journalists and "celebrities".

They throw tantrums. They throws hissy fits. They scream bloody murder. They divine doom and gloom for Google about how severely this will affect it in much more important markets like Android and Chrome.

And yet the world is not ending, and not every Facebook wall has this petition [1] plastered all over. Even GOOG stock underwent as a much as a correction, still hovering comfortably above $800.

What did happen, though, is that self-important "opinion leaders" had their illusions of power dispelled. No wonder they are furious.

[1] https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-r...

[mkr-hn]

It's too soon to say whether or not the power of the trendsetters was illusory. The nature of trendsetting is that the setters have to figure out what it means for them before they can communicate it. Any change will take time to distribute itself.