I noticed today that Bloglines have improved their RSS reader by stopping it from refreshing the navigation frame every time you click on it. Yawn.
However, I discovered that Google’s RSS Reader has also been overhauled, and that while it seems like most of their changes are aimed at making it more like Bloglines and every other RSS reader out there, which is to say more like an e-mail program, it also has a more obvious “River of News” interface now: like an LJ friends page, you see all the items organized on the page in reverse chronological order, rather than (as Bloglines does) sorted by their sources. The Google reader also has a fancy gimmick of marking items as “read” only once you scroll past them.
Since I uploaded my list of subscribed feeds from Bloglines to Google a while back, when I first tried out the site, reading it is an odd experience, because there’s a great deal of feeds which I’ve since dropped still there. It’s a glimpse into a past where I used to look at (if not read) more stuff. Anyway, maybe I should make the effort and try using it regularly.