Wasps Who Pilot Roaches

JWZ discusses a kind of wasp that can subvert the will of roaches and drive them into its nest.  Holy cow.

supports_microsoft_rss_platform

Added supports_microsoft_rss_platform to AggCompare.com per this conversation.

We need a generic aggregator synching system with which.  Period.  Why shouldn’t I be able to use 5 different aggregators(1 for phone, 1 for desktop, 1 for pda, 1 for home, 1 for travel)-OK, that’s overkill, from 5 different vendors?

Introducing AggCompare.com

No two RSS Aggregators are the same. Features that seem core in one aggregator are far down on the feature list for another. It’s hard to make a choice. Enter AggCompare.com. It’s only a few hours old and I still have a lot of plans for it, but it’s ready to start storing the data. Please head over there and enter a profile of your favorite Aggregator.

If you have any feature requests or if you think it’s missing some important criteria, let me know in the comments section of this post.

Update: Praneet(in the comments) is right, of course. I need to put descriptions on each of the criteria. One task that’s going to be a real hassle is naming and describing the various view types. For instance, I always felt like Gregarius and FeedLounge both have River of News views, but Dave(who coined the term) noted today that River of News is not just a merging of the feeds, chronologically, but it also means no feed list on the side. Maybe it would help to have some 80×80 icons that appear when you mouse over the name of a view in the AggCompare edit mode and in the list mode.