Unless I am very much mistaken bloglines has finally nailed the performance issues plaguing the service. Performance was bad enough that Stephen, for example, has been trialing an alternative (Bye For Now Bloglines). Others are too, if the co…

i've been using the Rojo (www.rojo.com) reader since january and have become a big fan. Rojo has been a big proponent of tagging which can, over time, suggest good posts and/or feeds to read.

agreed on the waste of space. i don't think the UI is particularly good at making use of the real estate available to it.

on the naming front, i actually don't mind that. simple names, to me, are always better than complex ones. particularly the complex ones that try to fully describe the products function.

as for the UI, while i'm with you in that this isn't the app for me, i support them trying to be innovative. they might have missed the mark here, but at least they're not cranking out the same old stuff.

Alex: will do. so far, the experience has been great. it occasionally stops refreshing after i've put my machine into suspend a couple of times, but after a login everything's back to normal. loving the keyboard access.

Bob: yeah, it is a lot of feeds. i'm not like Scoble in that i try to read everyone – there are a number of feeds that i check maybe weekly or biweekly only – but it still makes for a lot of conversation tracking. NetVibes does seem to be a bit too portalish for me, but good to be aware of.

Lee: am actually seeing some traffic from Gregarius these days, so i'll have to give that a look. can't speak for the FeedLounge guys on the invite situation, but i do know that they're trying to make it available to as many people as possible while keeping the experience solid for their existing users.