where is this feature on Google Reader? - Jeff Quinton

I saw it when I logged in for the first time after they added it, but you click on "Sharing Settings" under Friend's Shared Items to see this. - Robert Scoble

Scoble, off topic but, did you get my message on twitter ? - Alemsah Ozturk

Alemsah: which one? About poverty? - Robert Scoble

Scoble, about social net worth - Alemsah Ozturk

It's easier to follow when you don't have to consume tons of information - on FF you can easily browse through the links while on GReader you'll have to scroll down entire blog posts which must be more difficult. - Svetlana Gladkova

I don't see it. Please provide URL. - Robert Scoble

If you sent me a DM, I can't see those. Twitter bombs everytime I try to look at DM's. - Robert Scoble

I think it also has to do with the fact you are featured by Friendfeed - Loic Le Meur

Loic: nice theory, but explain how I got 9000 on Facebook or 10,000+ on Pownce or 31,000 on Twitter or 1000+ on Plurk or 1000+ on Upcoming.org. Why do I see such low numbers on Google Reader, despite being the #1 user of Google Reader for a very long time (according to Google employees) and giving Google Reader a ton of praise (and a link on my blog). I think a lot of people aren't using the friend feature in Google Reader, but don't know why. - Robert Scoble

GReader should provide a shortcut when subscribing (or having subscribed) to someone's shared item to add him as a feed or as a "friend" without the need to enter an email adress or to have him in your contact list. - Olivier

Perhaps because bookmarking is still seen as a personal/niche activity. I personally prefer that people analyse the news instead of try to link it to me, I can find that myself also. Noticed similar varying levels of engagement between writing something and doing a "delicious-links" posts. - Vincent van Wylick

Scoble: yep that was a DM ... damn :) will send mail then - Alemsah Ozturk

I think that Google Reader is not as much of a social media tool as it is meant to be for a single user and the following was an afterthought. Friendfeed is a social tool so it is right to expect more followers on here. - Andrew Fielding

@vincent GReader sharing is different from bookmarking (they have the star function for this), for me shaing means : tell people/services (FF) subscribed to me that I find this interesting...@robert if someone is subscribed to your shared item, I guess you do not see him as a "friend" in GReader even if he is in your contact list - Olivier

I follow you on both. Its actually considerably more difficult to find your shared items feed in Google Reader. You either have to go looking for it specifically, or (in my case) pick it up from a link Louis Gray posted. Contrast that with Friendfeed, where you show up as a Friend-of-a-friend almost immediately. - DGentry

I subscribe to your items as an rss feed, and I am sure a lot of other people do as well. That wouldn't show up. - Christian Leonard Quale via twhirl