Read Chris Heathcote's [anti-mega: RSS. Sucks.]. Agree to some points, no to others. At first: there is no software out in the world that really ALL users agree to and happy to use it. The better ones have a better implementation of the compromises and the problem is more general than related to RSS Aggregators only. Depends on what you expect to be solved by the SW: all what you want within one program, than it should be implemented by the OS, or - some tools that solve special problems or address different tasks to be done. The problem of each tool: it should integrate with all the others to get the result you want. A solution that just works out of the box is there for more than 20 years: UNIX and all the command line tools. They all work together by pipes and programmed by the shell. But: who really loves the command line? Other solutions still exists for GUI OS's: OpenStep (and may be MacOS X, but no hands on) and the Services concept: each program can offer services (specific tasks to be done), so a digital translator listen for marked words within a textbox and offer a translation service. The services interfaces are well documented and served by the underlaying framework, so it was easy to implement such integration. I think such more general (and easy to applied) approaches should be there on Windows and .NET than each tool implement a special plug-in interface of one other tool.

Far eastern: just tried [awasu] for about 5 minutes, the approach they use there is bit different than Bandit: the feed items are just bookmarks to the original blog page, categories not working but one the way. One feature that is jet also on my list: the summery view, and another one new to me: navigate to a feed item (configured for that feature) by the tray icon context menu. That's really nice. Think about to implement a variant with display new unread items. They have a nice website I recommend to view.