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Yep, I’m still upset about the recent changes to Google Reader. And no, sharing everything on Google+ is not a valid alternative, I don’t want to spam people’s feeds every time I go through hundreds of posts in my Reader.

But I think I found a nice little hack to imitate the old Share functionality. You can keep using the +1 button to share posts just as you did before. Selected posts are then displayed on your “+1’s” tab on Google+ (here’s how you can make sure it’s visible on your profile). But the problem is that Google doesn’t provide an RSS feed for that page. I guess that’s just another attempt to force people to spend more time on Google+ *shrugs*

Luckily, you can use a service like Dapper to create an RSS feed of your Plus Ones. Just follow the instructions from this post: Use Dapper To Create RSS Feeds From Any Page, Including Google Plus Posts. (Hint: your +1’s page URL is the same as the URL for your posts page, except it ends with “plus ones”; for instance, this is my +1’s page: https://plus.google.com/114358985182522646484/plusones)

So, from that you get an RSS feed of your shared… errr… I mean, your +1’s items like this one. And to make things a little more pretty, I even set up a Paper.li paper - iAlja’s Web Scout - that aggregates items from that feed. 

I know, I know, it’s not an ideal solution, and there are several limitations, but it will have to do while I wait for a real alternative :)