That inbox-esque aspect is one reason I just stopped using RSS entirely. There are some nice aspects to it, but on the whole, I feel that the read/unread business bugs me more than it helps me. I'm not sure where I saw this analogy, but it really does feel as if a magazine had this "53 STORIES YOU STILL HAVEN'T READ" counter flashing at me. I'd rather just read the magazine as I want to, and throw it out when I'm done. Same with websites--- I'll visit and read them if I want to read their content. No reason I need it pushed to me with some software keeping track of reading it as if it were a TODO list. Sometimes I forget about particular sites or blogs for months, and then remember and read them, and somehow that's fine with me too, since much of the best content isn't so time-sensitive that I need to know about new articles within a day of them coming out.
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That inbox-esque aspect is one reason I just stopped using RSS entirely. There are some nice aspects to it, but on the whole, I feel that the read/unread business bugs me more than it helps me. I'm not sure where I saw this analogy, but it really does feel as if a magazine had this "53 STORIES YOU STILL HAVEN'T READ" counter flashing at me. I'd rather just read the magazine as I want to, and throw it out when I'm done. Same with websites--- I'll visit and read them if I want to read their content. No reason I need it pushed to me with some software keeping track of reading it as if it were a TODO list. Sometimes I forget about particular sites or blogs for months, and then remember and read them, and somehow that's fine with me too, since much of the best content isn't so time-sensitive that I need to know about new articles within a day of them coming out.