Dave Winer's take on feed reading in Firefox

Dave Winer came to MoCo yesterday for a chat about feed reading.

He gave us some food for thought, in particular the idea that limiting Firefox's feed reading functionality to a mere conduit for transferring feeds to the user's third-party reader of choice doesn't meet the needs of users who don't already understand the benefits of aggregated feed reading (which may well be a large majority of users).

Dave suggested we instead integrate feed reading directly into Firefox (while preserving choice for users who want to use another app).  I'm inclined to agree, but I'll note that there's a third option: we could simply choose a default third-party feed reader, just as we've chosen a default search engine, and direct users there when they click on a feed.