Danah Boyd at Apophenia has once again thought outside the box and expressed some great ideas. This time it is about what a newsaggregator should be able to do. It's easy for us non-programmers (well - I don't program in low level languages like C) to make all sorts of pie in the sky requests. But still. We need this stuff. Read her meaty post. Just give me:
i want to be able to choose to watch an entry, a topic or a person. I don't want to be forced into a person only; this unit of view is way too big.You have to read her elaborations to see how great this would be. I love that it's probably quite possible and thus not too distant for us to get this - how about later this year?
My other personal favorite would be simply to be able to filter my list of feeds easily. I want to have my own categories that I can assign to any feed so that I can just read on the topic I'm interested in at a particular point in time. I have too long a list to read everything. I'm making due for the moment by creating folders and grouping my feeds. That's a start.