Tried FeedReader yet? I'm happy with the Linux derivative, Liferea.

For the internet goes a saying: Wherever there is simplicity, there is spam... I think easy commenting will therefore be out of the question for a while. And public referer logs will slowly disappear as long as people spam them.

I like the way you take the trouble to mention all those URLs, btw. :)

Have you tried Bloglines, another online reader? I use FeedDemon, which I like, but I don't need to sync subscriptions.

Good suggestions about additions to newsreaders -- newsreading, blogging, and commenting belong together, and I think they will grow together over time.

Here are some pages I wish I had known about before I tried a lot of aggregators: John Abbe's RSS Resources and Lockergnome's RSS page.

Thanks for the comments. FeedDemon and FeedReader both use IE for viewing the articles. This is something I really want to avoid. I am so used to the idea of tabs, find as you type and other Firebird features, and would rather not give them up.

Bloglines looks really good though. Functionally very much like FoF, but much more polished. I've imported my OPML feeds and will be trying it out for a while. One really cool thing I liked was the ability to view older entries (even the ones that are not included in the current RSS). This is really neat - though not really useful.

Also, this, and this give a very rough idea of the popularity of various news aggregators.

ankit

The one thing that you overlook about "Feed on Feeds" is that it is a server side aggregator which means that you need to host it on your own server. I liked FeedDemon but they now only have a 30-days trial version. I think I will go back to Bloglines but again, as the list goes long bloglines beacomes too clumsy to hanle. To me nothing better that a desktop aggregator.