Rodent Regatta

RSS FEEDS VS. NEWS AGGREGATORS

I’ve read with interest the discussions about various RSS feeds – 0.91, 1.0, 2.0, etc. A couple of times, I’ve found myself wondering if all the time and talent isn’t being wasted on the feed when the aggregators could use some help.
When my Radio news aggregator refreshes every hour, I go through it making a first cut. All of the entries show up with check marks by them. I uncheck the stories I may keep and delete the rest. When I’m through with this step, I’m left with a list of possible posts in the news aggregator that made the first cut.
I then glance at this remaining list and determine what I might want to post or editorialize. Mentally, I come up with a sequence for the posts and by pressing ”POST” the story is moved to Radio’s text entry box where I can add a heading or title, and add, change and delete text. I then publish the finished entry.
The beauty of this approach is two-fold as I see it. First, I can publish things with not much more than a mouse-click or two. Second, when the story moves to the text entry box, it carries with it two very important attributes. One, all of the links are preserved (because of WYSIWYG, I think), and, two, a final attribution showing the site where the original entry came from is appended to the entry.
Until third-party news aggregators provide this functionality, complete with the preservation of the links, making entries to weblogs will require multiple windows and manual restoration of the links that are part of the entry. There’s more to Radio’s news aggregator than meets the eye!
To my knowlege nothing of this sort exists for Blogger, Movable Type or any of the other weblog tools. If I’m wrong, someone correct me.