"Hey Les.  Just realizing the new deal breaks a couple widgets I use at work that drew from Reader's shared items feed. Crap. It's not the first time I have been thwarted by Google in this way. They're not that open contrary to what they say or like to think of themselves. When a change becomes a snag for you, somehow or another it turns out to benefit them -- in this case by disallowing shared items from being displayed on a page that's not theirs. Thinking of trying Tumblr or something as the vehicle for non-technical users to make a feed." - Amyloo