Google Reader just got a lot more interesting for those people who share a lot of stories.

In an interesting move by Google, users of their Google Reader product that share stories with other people can now hold conversations about those stories via built-in commenting.  Up until now, only the person sharing the story could make a comment, but with this new additional feature, anyone who is in your sharing circle can join in on the conversation.  All one needs to do to participate is look for the “Add Comment” link at the bottom of each share story.  The discussion will then appear below the story for others to see.

According to the Official Google Reader Blog, you will also be able to use this new feature from your iPhone so you can even comment on the go.

While it is an interesting idea, I have to agree with Adam Ostrow of Mashable and Duncan Riley of The Inquisitr when they express concerns of how this may steal comments and click-thrus away from blogs. Mr. Ostrow worries about the fact you can not currently import these comments into your blog, so it is like lost conversations. Mr. Riley also has a valid point in that if something impassioned you enough to make a comment about it, why should you bother clicking through to the site now to make it when you can get just as much satisfaction from doing it right there in Reader?  There is going to have to be some way for comments to move and back and forth between your blog and Reader, or else you will see a lot of full text feeds being cut down to snippets to get people encouraged to visit the blogs again.

This is an interesting idea, but I’m just not sure if it was completely thought through on how it might impact the bloggers who create the content that is the life’s blood of Reader.