In the next week, we’ll be making some highly requested changes to Google Reader. First, we’re going to introduce a brand new design (like many of Google’s other products) that we hope you love. Second, we’re going to bring Reader and Google+ closer together, so you can share the best of your feeds with just the right circles.As a result of these changes, we also think it's important to clean things up a bit. Many of Reader's social features will soon be available via Google+, so in a week's time we'll be retiring things like friending, following and shared link blogs inside of Reader.
This is great news. Most of the information I consume daily comes from Google Reader (the rest is email). I don't use Google+ because there's no way to share posts from Google Reader directly, and I refuse to copy the link, go to another tab, and copy it in Google+.
Let's just hope the opposite way will also be available, ie, I want to be able to see my Google+ timeline inside Google Reader. Otherwise it doesn't make sense.