It's crazy to me the amount of grousing about the Google Reader cheese-moving. The old system was an opaque, user-antagonistic, hacked-on mess.
The new system (integration with +) is rational and a superset of the old system, as far as I can tell.
I also choose to consider this as a precursor to many rational changes/extensions to Google Reader.
Let me be clear: I am sooo glad that I can finally direct Google Reader shared items to specific groups, so I don't have to spam everyone who follows me with every single item, which pretty much guaranteed that 80% of my feed was irrelevant/stupid/boring to any given person.
Now all I need are public, topical feeds that are subscribable/discoverable. RSS, in other words.
The new system (integration with +) is rational and a superset of the old system, as far as I can tell.
I also choose to consider this as a precursor to many rational changes/extensions to Google Reader.
Let me be clear: I am sooo glad that I can finally direct Google Reader shared items to specific groups, so I don't have to spam everyone who follows me with every single item, which pretty much guaranteed that 80% of my feed was irrelevant/stupid/boring to any given person.
Now all I need are public, topical feeds that are subscribable/discoverable. RSS, in other words.