Testing ‘Google Recommended Reading’…

My readers know I’m a huge fan of Google Reader to aggregate news and ideas. Lately, I found a great new plugin called Google Recommended Reading from C. Murray Consulting that allows me to leverage my shared items in Google Reader as post or sidebar content. Currently, I use FriendFeed to accomplish this, but if you’re concerned about their future under facebook or just want to keep things simple, I highly recommend it — the functionality is great and they are incredible responsive — a feature was added to the plugin within 24 hours of a suggestion I made on their blog…

The widget is at the bottom of the sidebar and this is a test of their ‘display on page/post’ shortcode feature:

Here are 7 great posts I read this morning:

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