Both have increasingly strained relations with America, which they accuse of holding them back. Both Russia and China want to assert themselves as regional powers. It is proof that Mr Putin has allies when he seeks to blunt Western sanctions over Ukraine. The deal will help the Kremlin reduce Russia’s reliance on gas exports to Europe. That an agreement should come now, after a decade of haggling, is no accident. But it counts, too, for the geopolitics that underpin it. Mr Putin called the deal the biggest in the history of Russia’s gas industry. The deal capped a two-day visit to China by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, that included a regional-security summit and joint military exercises off the Chinese coast. Their agreement calls for Russia’s government-controlled Gazprom to supply state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation with up to 38 billion cubic metres of gas a year between 20. I’ll add an update once I’ve got a good working system that I’m really happy with.ON MAY 21st, after a nail-biting session of late-night brinkmanship, China and Russia signed an enormous gas deal worth, at a guess, around $400 billion. If you want to do it on the cheap, but still have a application frontend, you could use a free feedly account linked with a $5 ReadKit application and $3.99 Mr. I may try out NewsBlur iOS apps + ReadKit with free subscription first, though. I will probably choose Feedbin as my sync service because it has a nice web interface and is open source with a GiHub repository. Reader (prob best reader for iPad) and ReadKit frontend for Mac OS. So I think I am going to follow Naupaka Zimmerman’s ( lead and use a backend sync service that is compatible with Mr. The good news is that after some discussions and searching, it looks like there are some very good options with some very elegant interfaces. It seems as though, for now, there is no real simple stream-lined option to fully replace my previous system. Unfortunately, you’ll have to get a different one (or more) for your iOS or other devices. I don’t mind paying for high quality software or other good products.Īpplications/Programs like ReadKit, Fluid, NewsBar, and NetNewsWire act as nice front end readers for the sync services. This doesn’t guarantee that a company won’t sell your information (unless it’s specifically stated in their purchase agreement), but it hopefully provides a longer term security. Otherwise you can pay $24/year for the premium service. NewsBlur has a free option for up to 64 feeds but there is a waiting list for that. As Ethan White pointed out via Twitter ( this makes you the product rather than the software. Additionally, as with any service that doesn’t get other external funding (big grants for socially valuable software), they will have to sell your information to make a profit. There is worry that without a better business model they may not last (If google couldn’t make it work…). The problem with all of these alone is that when I click on the RSS link on a site, I don’t have any option to subscribe with one of these programs, I have to manually enter the feed – I heard that this might not be the case with NewsBlur).įeedly is free but has some available premium services. Unfortunately, they don’t have stand alone Reader applications for Mac OS (feedly might for Windows, and NewsBlur has ipad and iphone apps but no current Mac OS X app). Feedly (free), NewsBlur ($24/yr), Feedbin ($36/yr), and Feed Wrangler ($20/yr) are just a few of the very popular RSS services that sync subscriptions. I’m finally getting around to looking for a more permanent solution to replace my whole system. Then Google shut down it’s reader service which basically powered the above readers. I could then read my news, blogs, and TOCs as time allowed, wherever I went. I’d click yes and then it was synced on my account across all my devices. When I clicked on an RSS link on a website, my browser ( Firefox) would ask if I want to subscribe to the feed using Reeder (or Google Reader). I settled on Reeder most recently and had it synced on my mobile devices as well. When Google Reader had been working, I tried Gruml, NetNewsWire, and Reeder as RSS reader apps that synced with Google Reader. I even had RSS feeds for specific questions on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange to get answers to computing and statistics questions. I originally used it to follow blogs and training logs of runners, then started following academic blogs (organized into various folders), and even started getting my scientific journal table of contents via RSS to avoid a dozen TOC emails every Friday afternoon. If you don’t use RSS, it’s worth looking into. I used to use Google Reader to keep all of my RSS feeds synced. Apparently it was popular but not sufficiently profitable. Unfortunately, back in July 2013 Google dropped it’s immensely popular RSS feed reader.
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