Google Reader – end of an era

Today is the last day of updates to shared items in Google Reader, as Google converts Google Reader to push eyeballs to Google Plus.

I’ve removed the shared items widget from this blog, though there are still a couple of links to my shared items archive at the bottom right. Not sure how long they will work.

I’m going to try switching over to Tumblr to store and publish the items I want to share from Google Reader. The link for that is http://iponderus.tumblr.com, and the RSS feed is http://iponderus.tumblr.com/rss . So ironically you can view the feed of my shared items from Google Reader in Google Reader, but it will be Tumblr powering it now.

I think the preferred method (at least the one Google would prefer) is that I “plus one” the items. However my Google Plus account is personal, so no one besides close friends and family would be able to see those, as best as I can tell. Good move Google. Oh well, progress is like this sometimes.