I have always liked the River of News approach with RSS aggregators (I like this definition btw). I like to quickly scroll trough very long pages scanning posts and news in a browser.

Since I started using BlogLines I have had a chance to group feeds I subscribe to, my current pattern is clicking on the group's title and get the river of news view of every group (I never read a single feed).

I separated them to get homogeneous flows, bloggers with bloggers, English with English, Italian with Italian, etc. It's interesting to notice that I read some groups more frequently than others.

After some usage, here's how I divide my rivers and how I read them:

• Comics - here's where I get my daily dose of Dilbert. I check this group once a day.
  
• Dashboard - Technorati links, feeds from our own k-logs, alerts, etc. I check this group every time it updates.
• English blogs - Blogs in English that don't belong to the following category. I check this group once a day.
• Friends - Blogs in English written by friends or people I like. I check this group several times per day
• Guitar - Stuff and news about guitars. Once a day (it doesn't update very frequently)
• Int News - News from international news sources (BBC, NY Times, Yahoo, etc.). I check this group rarely, maybe once per week. Quite often I mark all items as read even if I don't read them
• Italian bloggers - Weblogs written in Italian. I check this group several times per day
• Italian News - News from Italian news sources. I read this rarely just like Int News.
• Tech News - News from technology news sources. I read this group a little more frequently than other non-blogger feeds, but not that much.

The bottom line seems to be that I trust bloggers much more than other news sources to get my information. This doesn't of course mean that I don't read news sites. To the contrary: I read many news sites but I usually get there via a blogger and not their RSS feeds.

I'm curious to learn how other aggregator users group their feeds.

While in London I met Euan at the Apple Store, he asked about Shuffles and they had them on stock. So he got one. How could I resist?

Anyway, the toy needs 4 hours for the first charge so I went back to the hotel, plugged in, waited 4 hours (actually they weren't exactly 4... but it looked charged enough to me), loaded some music, unplugged and... the headphones weren't working! The left channel was weak and scratchy.

Went back to the Apple Store the following day and I got the unit replaced, no question asked.

Now I'm the happy owner of an iPod Shuffle, I'll throw myself out from the Vintage iPod Owners Club. ;-)