Star Simpson

For color on this - I somehow ended up reading and sharing with a bunch of [actual/working] scientists, while I was in college

I learned SO MUCH just by hanging out in the comments section. It was as though my news, for a time, was peer reviewed.

And it wasn't acrimonious, it was fun. Most of those people were IRL friends but I even just met one "Google Reader Friend" about a year ago

That bond is super strong, because you felt like you'd get to know someone else's mind

Even or wayy more so than other internet media forms

I think this is mostly what people mean when they say they miss Google Reader.

(At least, it's what I mean.) People always recommend another RSS tool but that's the least of what's missing from the experience of it imo

Another thing that's important about the "reblogging" or sharing feature - with the bookmarklet, you could grab shreds/quotes of things