I've been reading a few discussions lately about RSS feeds and aggregators.
Jake of Codestore mentions it here
The main argument against most RSS aggregators is that they remove the personal touch of viewing or reading something on someones actual site, and therefore viewing the page/content in the exact way the webmaster intended.
I got to thinking that the way I'm using Trillian and its RSS plug in to use. I have my main blog type sites in a section on Trillians contact list - RSS items come under the sites heading, listed as itemised "contacts", with a hoverover summary showing if one is available. However when I click on its title, I'm taken to the url of the item instead of it being viewed through the aggregator.
It ends up working something like a usenet message summary scan, where you're going on titles to find something of interest, and it works well. When I'm in a hurry and want to check many sites at once, I can browse their article headers for something that interests me. Its quick, but it also removes the major homogenisation problem of using a full aggregator.