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Well, I am still not posting regularly because I am bouncing back and forth between using Bloglines and Newsgator. Well, this is my analysis.

I started with one aggregator a long time ago. It was unusable under any circumstance. I switched to Bloglines until some minor annoyances - like feeds I have marked keep on loading in the background until they finsh. Bloglines shouild terminate that feed to the user when they tell Bloglines to mark it read. Period. There is no, NO excuse for their not being able to do so. Specifically, Lifehacker and a couple of others, but Lifehacker was singularly the most annoying.

Then I switched to Newsgator based upon a lot of recommendations running around the web. It was given a number one position by more than a few reviewers. BALDERDASH! It is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOW, so slow, it makes maple syrup creeping down a maple tree trunk on a cold winter's day look like an Olympic sprint champion. I can load a text only blog's full text postings faster with Bloglines than I could load the same blog's capsules on Newsgator.

I also like Bloglines ability to open another feed in another tab or window - something you cannot do with Newsgator. This may be in the works of the new beta, but that loaded so slooooow it made regular Newsgator look like that same sprinter.

Well, I am back with Bloglines for the interim. The search continues.

Maybe I can download enough stuff so I can find something interesting to post although there were so many posts in the 178 I am monitoring, I just marked them all read. Onward!