If you look at my other post, it covers how I tend to read a bunch of stories on one “river of news” style stream. Think about a newspaper. You don’t read every story in it. Nor do I read every article in my feed stream. I scan the headlines and read what’s of interest to me. And when you have so many feeds, a stream I find is much easier than trying to read feed by feed.
I agree on blog search — it struggles if you go purely by keyword search and time ranking. Google allows you to rank by what it considers relevancy; Technorati lets you up the “authority,” and I’ve found Ask’s blog search to be better on the spam a bit.

Great article, but a bit confusing for those of us who are new to feeds.
Why even have a desktop RSS Feed? How do you read 70 feeds a day anyway? And Jason follows 200! That’s just not practical for the average business person. Somehow, our news preferences need a more advanced solution. Also, how to get relevant news out there from new sources without all the effort. Lastly, rss search is a joke. When I search on keywords in any of the blog search engines, including Google Blogger Search, Sphere and Weblogs, I get spam out the wazoo.
RSS and Atom Feed Search is marginal at best. To sum things up, we need to find and manage these feeds in a more user intuitive way.

Danny- A couple weeks ago I discovered that the Great News desktop RSS reader (http://www.curiostudio.com/) syncs with Bloglines. I follow like 200 feeds and use Great News at home and Bloglines at work and on the road. I’ve found the sync functionality very useful so far… might be another one to check out. J