As we are all aware Google Reader disabled sharing other than on Google+ in it’s new version. This obviously upset me immensely because I used my share feed for my blog. After trying out numerous suggestions, this is what worked:

1. Subscribe to your original shared feed
2. Pray to God you had created a public tag prior to the switch-over to the new reader and despite whatever you named it, use it! Newly created tags are by default private and there is no means of making them public at the moment.
3. Using the old tag, create a bundle. There should be drop-down to the right of the tag name in the left pane.
4. Also add/drag the subscribed shared feed into the bundle.
5. Change all your blog widgets using the original Shared feed RSS to the RSS feed for this new bundle.

I tried using Chrome extensions to display the original shared icon but that has a number of issues:
- The extensions stopped working for me soon after
- My email got hacked into around the time I got the extensions. It could have been because of insecure scripts
- Google is going to eventually remove the original sharing from its API so might as well stick with something they’re not going to scrap soon. Or one would hope so.

Hope this helps some fellow frustrated soul.

Tags: Google Reader