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Because I get impatient with the time it takes to load a Google Reader Shared Items list that has even as few as 20 entries, I tend to delete items out of my Google Reader Shared Items list (and thus the linkblog) after a couple of days. Therefore, FriendFeed has become my official repository for all of my Google Reader Shared Items.
The benefit of this is that FriendFeed, unlike a Google Reader link blog, allows comments on the items.
The disadvantage is that my Google Reader statistics for shared (and starred) items are completely unreliable.
As for comments, if Google let you post comments on items within Reader, it's likely the blogosphere would erupt - much more than they ever did for Shyftr.
Thanks for your great post and your google reader shared items, here is mine http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16495325031...
Now I rely on FriendFeed to just aggregate everything automatically. It's just easier and more comprehensive. So I've stopped manually adding external services to my gReader blog and instead keep it clean with just shared blog posts and let FriendFeed sort them out with everything else.
One thing I've realized now that I allow FF to manage my lifestream (http://orangejack.com/lifestream), it gives the title only and often it's out of context. So I'm trying to make it a habit if I share something in gReader and the title isn't a good one, I share with a comment so it has context on my lifestream. Unfortunately, the owner of the post I share doesn't get the comment unless they are subbed to me or I go back and double-post my comment.
You can see this very post on our selection today in the international edition http://www.masternewmedia.org/index.html and in our Latino edition in Spanish as well: http://www.masternewmedia.org/es/
I share from reader but in a slightly different way to what you described.
I make topic specific bundles, like this one for "data viz":
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DataReadingViaTimG
Method:
Step 1: Create a folder and share it publicly.
Step 2: If a feed has consistently relevant items, just add it to the folder. All posts from that feed are included in the bundle.
Step 3: If a feed sometimes has relevant items, leave it out of the folder, and just tag the relevant items with the folder name. Then those selected items are included in the bundle too.
If you wanted to divide your shared items into separate feeds by topic, you could use just step 3 to do it.
Cheers,
Tim