It IS interesting. I've spoken with a number of bloggers in the past couple days and goog VC's, investors. The thing is, while G+ is the "future", (personally, I still consider it an also ran, it's more of an ANTI-FB than a goto, the percent of bloggers who see traffic from G+ vs. those who see traffic from Google Reader is nothing. Almost a rounding error. There are a couple who ONLY use G+, and therefore their numbers are much higher, but compared to offering both (or all including ezines, digg, etc.) reader still brings in the lions share. Still not really sure the motivation here.