Oh, and apropos my serial enthusiast ways, I've shacked up with a different news aggregator again. I was using newsRiver again, but the temporary lack of a spare server to run it on in the midst of the move had me feedless. So, after a brief flirtation with Bloglines - which went down promptly after I started using it - I switched using Gregarius. I have to say: This is a pretty keen aggregator. It doesn't support reading lists, but I have an itch to implement that support. Otherwise, the feed folders work pretty much how I'd like them to work - as a prioritized and stratified River of News. I might also think about hacking my evolving feed reader template as a drop-in theme for Gregarius.



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[...] I’ve got a long, long, long history of doing this - partially because of my serial enthusiasm, and partially because none of the aggregators I’ve used so far have satisfied all of my itches. Some tie up my laptop in terms of memory and CPU, some aren’t fast enough UI-wise to help me really blaze through skimming, and some aren’t flexible enough for me to tweak to my particular liking. [...]
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