Google Reader now lets you Comment

The way I share articles with friends is almost like a conversation. We each share subsequent articles to push forward the discussion. We are busy (and maybe lazy) and instead of articulating our points, we find and push articles that do. This has to be a weird modern way of communicating, but it works with certain friends.

That all said, we still do like to comment on the articles that each sends.

One of the frustrations I have had with the share feature in Google Reader is that when a friend shares something with me, I can not just send a comment about the article back to my friend in the interface. Instead, I would need to email that friend and that process took out a lot of the enjoyment in sharing articles.

Today, Google enabled a comment feature in Google Reader. This is great news and I am excited to use it and see how it augments the discussion.

There are dissenters out there. TechCrunch brings up some interesting points about Copyrights in a 2007 post.

For me, this is a welcome addition. Here is the official announcement from Google.

3/13/09 UPDATE: One more feature that Google needs to add is a 'Share on Google Reader' function for individual articles. Much in the same way that Digg, Reddit, Yahoo, and a multitude of others do. There are many times when I find an article out on the open web that I want to share. If I were to want to share it now, I would need to subscribe to the feed, find the post in Google Reader and then click share. That's lame. I just want to save and share it right from the original post.