In the "there's nothing new..." dept. 2013: "lately I’ve been feeling a need to get back to the pre-Web-2.0 days of owning my own content...Remember when the people working on these products seemed so glamorous?"

daniel.industries/2013/03/13/the-rumors-of-google-readers-death-have-not-been-greatly-exaggerated/

(Had to fix a broken image on this one, which helped find the correct attribution, after some archive.org digging.)