From reading the article, the author was clearly using an email-style aggregator. I strongly agree with Dave Winer; this may seem like a good idea at first, but it is grossly at odds with how the human brain works. River-of-news is the way to go and good keystrokes for scanning is the way to go. Google Reader is acceptable. (Ironic, since that's the picture used for the article, but it is clearly not what the author is using. If you look at the picture, it's what you get with a brand-new signup.)
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This sounds exactly like Dave Winer's thoughts on how RSS readers should be structured, minus the correct solution: http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/riverOfNews
From reading the article, the author was clearly using an email-style aggregator. I strongly agree with Dave Winer; this may seem like a good idea at first, but it is grossly at odds with how the human brain works. River-of-news is the way to go and good keystrokes for scanning is the way to go. Google Reader is acceptable. (Ironic, since that's the picture used for the article, but it is clearly not what the author is using. If you look at the picture, it's what you get with a brand-new signup.)