ninme 'splains it to you. Deeply annoying since the whole activity of this blog lately is simply passing links along.
I await a third party rescue, since google's only interested in google plus-ing me (not interested until they relax the no pseudonym policy), and I'd have to have a whole new identity for that. Recommendations welcome.
Update: Well, it's ugly, but it's functional: for the time being, I switched to FriendFeed, which gives me what I want: a bookmarklet with which to easily share links. Agree completely with blostopher's comment, citing a TechCrunch reader:
The new Google Reader continues the Google revamping of including lots of white space and reducing the actual amount of content available. Message to Google: It's all about content, not white space. Also, the nearly colorless theme is just totally dead and lifeless.Designers think it's about how it looks; readers think it's about the content. How long before they kill Blogger, I am wondering?