Wanted: email redirect to google reader note shares

I'm not so keen on Twitter, but I do like Google Reader. Lately, I'm particularly keen on GRs shared posts, notes and microblogging features.

There are just a few more things we need.

For example, the latest version of the NYT iPhone app supports shares to Twitter and Facebook. Alas, not GR shared notes, even though there's an API for creating Google Reader Shared Notes. Maybe this will come to a future app, but these days lots of companies fear Google. The NYT may not want to add this particular link.

Happily, there's always email. It's the lowest common interface; the means to bridge unwilling vendors.

So we need Google to provide a way to post to the GR Notes stream via email or SMS (for email at least they can use the Blogger post secret address approach). Or we need some 3rd party to setup an email gateway that would call the API for creating Google Reader Shared Notes. Mail to a secret address, add to the GR read stream that extends my older memory managers.

This ought to be of interest to people like ping.fm.

Update: I tried sharing this on the (once) official Google Reader Product Ideas site, but it's now rejecting submissions with an error message. So I created a getSatisfaction request.

See also:

• What my blogs are for: memory management and the Google-Gordon geek-mind fusion
• Fewer posts, more shared items – Google Reader changes my memory management
• Strange loops: Google custom and customized search - and a memory blog
• Google's confusing social graph strategy: Google reader friends via Google Chat
• Google reader micro-blogging and changes to Gordon Notes
• Loving Google Reader - Shared post feed
• Share anything in your Google Reader Share feed
• Ping.FM: a router for status updates ... with just one small problem.

Update: Via Louisgray.com I came across an app that syncs Twitter and Reader. It's not well documented, but if it posts Tweets to reader then I can use Twitter as a Notes poster.

Update: Nope, reader2twitter didn't seem to work, and it felt too rough for the likes of me. I tried pointing TwitterFeed to my Reader Shared Item feed, but Twitter output has misplaced URL encoding. It's not the answer, and, really, I'd prefer to use Twitter as a way to post items to my Google Reader shares -- not the other way around.