Starting poking around more of the rss/rdf and related bits sites.
I think I see why people like it now. It is a land ripe for silly hacks.

Not exactly sure how all the tech/weblog cliches seem to
have ingrained into so many people fiddling with this stuff
though. I want to retch every time I see “smart mobs” or
“emergent networks” or “audblogs”. More than a little
fanaticism. But then, that can be a
good thing.

I decided all the web based aggregators and all
the gui readers sucked. Or at least, all the ones I tried. I really
have no urge to run a app server locally I have to talk to
via a web browser. Or fire up another large gui app to read
text.

So I found rss2email
and hacked it up to deliver to local mbox files. Seems to work.
Probabaly not actually useful, but what the heck.