Great blog post in defense of Google Reader

In short, this is not a workflow designed around sharing information and communicating about it. This is a workflow designed to make people click on things.

Taken in hand with the earlier announcement from Google that they’re shutting down Buzz (another quirky social network that didn’t achieve Facebook-level popularity), part of me suspects that someone in Google corporate looked at the Buzz and gReader communities, looked at Plus’s less-than-vertical adoption & use rates, and concluded that by killing Buzz and gReader’s social elements, these communities would migrate over to Plus.

That is, however, a ridiculous idea.