RSS Aggregator User Experience
I just switched on the activeRenderer view in myRadio. aR takes the standard Radio aggregator view and turns it into a collapsible outline, showing me only as much detail as I want for a given news item. I don't know why I hadn't noticed this option before, maybe it's new (but I admit I haven't been paying a great deal of attention.) My first impression is quite positive. One of the problems I have with the Radio-style layout is just the overwhelming amount of information that's on screen at any one time. The ability to collapse the news items to just the headline is great improvement. I've tried numerous three-pane, browser-based aggregator/reader applications, yet keep coming back to Radio/myRadio. The incorporation of aR has made the experience even better.

Update: One more thing the aR interface does -- it groups ALL news items under a single instance of the source. This is common in the separate newsreader applications, but Radio still groups all feeds by time, leaving the reader to scroll down through multiple instances of any given source. The aR way is much better. [b.cognosco] 
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