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Just to be clear, Google Reader will not alter the source's content; you're only editing what YOU put in YOUR link blog.
It's not any different than linking to and quoting content on your blog. Which we do all the time. The question with Google Reader's new feature is the same question you always have to ask yourself:
Do you trust the source? The person who's running the link blog? Do you trust THAT PERSON?
Well, do ya punk?
I trust the folks I read linkblogs from, but if I were to expand my reading list by perusing lists available from ReadBurner or RSSMeme, I might not, as I don't know those people (I have spoken to and know fairly well everyone on my current link-blog reading list).
The fact I found disconcerting is that I could change a small portion of the original text, and it would get passed off as the original article to my friends, who can't see what changes I have made.
I would not consider this an extremely serious bug, since the people who could use this to their advantage would likely never abuse this, as it would cause a huge blow to their reputation if it was ever discovered.
Google Reader doesn't show articles from feedburner feeds anymore. If clicked on a feedburner feed in the left pane the URL box becomes something like https://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A...
and Google Reader will reload completely without showing anything in the main 'window'. It is obvious a part of the URL is repeated where it shouldn't.
I've seen this effect on several PC's now from several networks so it is not a local issue. This problem started a couple of weeks ago. All feedburner feeds seem to have this problem. Not sure whether this is a Feedburner bug or a Google Reader bug. Both are Google.
Where can I report bugs to Google anyway?