I'm like about Technorati's new Favorites feature, but I'm still not sure why.

It definitely has something to do with Reading Lists, and since they have just announced OPML support for Blog Finder categories, maybe we will have an OPML version of Favorites too.

Favorites pages are displayed in river of news mode (mixed sources, reverse chronological order), but they don't make very good reading pages since they only contain part of the post (I like full posts in my aggregator, but that might be just me).

Since Technorati has a copy of everything written in the blogosphere since the beginning (well... almost), I should be able to go back in time and check old conversations, something I can't do this easily in my aggregator (also if the back/next links at the bottom of my favorites page don't seem to work).

Knowing what I write and what I read, Technorati is in a very good position to offer very interesting services to its users, and this is definitely an important step in that direction.

A feature request: I would like to have more than one favorite page, for example not to mix Italian and English friends.

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