Google Reader Died Because No One Would Run It
www.buzzfeed.com/mattlynley/google-reader-died-because-no-one-would-run-it
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Theres a very simple corporate reason for why Google Reader was shut down earlier this month: No one internally deemed it important enough to even work on, much less save.