A potentially serious, perhaps fatal, flaw in Google+ is that when an individual (or series of individuals) republishes something someone else has created, the information authority of the original is diluted with each republication.
The solution seems to be a way to provide a link with commentary within the Google+ ecosystem. Because Google most likely intends to sell advertising around everything in Google+, this is not likely to be a high priority concern in the ‘plex.
The problem isn’t unique to Google+, of course. Twitter retweets have the same flaw. That’s why no one can remember who was first with the “if you’re not paying, you’re the product” statement. But it’s much less of a problem with Twitter’s 140 character speed bump.
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