You’re back on the list. I’ll let you know if anything “funny” happens. Let us speak of this no more while online.

It worries me that something I might come to rely on, like a newsreader, could have such an opaque development process.

OTOH, I rely on all kinds of stuff with opaque dev processes…

I’ve been using Shrook. I’m thinking seriously of switching to Blogbridge — it does some things that I’d REALLY LIKE to be able to do, really simple things like keyword-tagging, but can’t do in Shrook. And lately, Shrook has been struggling under the weight of my feeds (i, um, well, I aggregate a *lot* of feeds — in the low hundreds, and that list probably won’t get smaller). What I’ll probably do is start using BB for “work” blogging, and continue to use Shrook for more “personal” stuff. That will let me eval BB in a real-world environment.

I couldn’t switch to a feed reader that doesn’t have star ratings and smart folders. iTunes for RSS feeds. Without those, I spend waaaay too much time navigating folders, rather than keeping up to date.