Old news, but finding this out made me sad:

Ask.com let our users know that we will shut down Bloglines on November 1.

Bloglines was my first and only feedreader. I’ve been using it for over five years. Until leaving on the trip, it was one of the sites I checked daily—actually multiple times throughout the day: Bloglines, Gmail, Justinsomnia, and repeat. For me it “just worked”. To bad there isn’t some way for Bloglines to exist outside of Ask. Oh well, *kicks stones aimlessly*.

Update: I trimmed my blog subscriptions down to 67, and imported everything into Google Reader.

Update: Not so fast!

MerchantCircle, the largest online network of local business owners, has agreed to manage the Bloglines service for us and keep it up and running with no interruptions for our users. That means your data is still there, intact, and you can continue to use your same log-in and password as always.

Unfortunately it was too little too late for me. I’ve already switched over to Google Reader…