Paolo Vademarin shares his whishes for an ideal RSS reader and i agree with most of his points.
While i’ve been a blogs reader from a few years now, I should say that I’ve never been able to use an aggregator for much time, I always felt that the mail-like interface many are offering was not fitting well the flow of news coming from the net.
I also wanted something that was available over the web (since I was most of the time out of my office or without my own PC) and i did use bloglines but the user-experience was just not right…
I was intrigued by the description of the way RoN readers works and some days ago I’ve started using the newsRiver tool for the OPML editor. I should say that the feeling is better than the tools I’ve used before (i’d also like a more dynamic interface for it, maybe with async calls to the server for page update…).
I was reading very few blogs regularly and use them as starting points to find the relevant news, but using the newsRiver I’m able to keep track of many more feeds than i was used to.
Wrt reading lists i view them strictly as topic or subject related, that is i don’t consider my subscriptions to be a single reading list. I would rather build some reading list out of those subscriptions bundling together those feeds which are relevant for some subjects. My aggregator would then allow me to filter the river of news by reading list showing me only the posts from those feeds.