Google really hurt the blogosphere with the dominance of Reader and then its shutdown. It’s good to pay attention to that now. When you start relying on a dominant product, everything is good, because it hasn’t gone away yet. You don’t feel the pain until it goes away.

– Dave Winer: Medium as an RSS reader

If you aren’t already following Dave Winer’s writing, you really should start now. His perspective and ideas on the open web is an important one.