Nutshell’s a .Net based aggregator. It has a ticker bar that appears at the top of the screen which is kind of nice, but doesn’t allow me to scroll down the full list of all posts within a certain channel (at least as far as I can see). No river of news, no use to me.
Uninstalled.

• http://rssfeederdotnet.sourceforge.net/
• offers a blogpaper that looks as though it might do the trick.
• imports OPML OK, though it imports duplicates of feeds that are in more than one tag in Rojo – I suspect most aggregators will do this, though.
• chokes while getting perhaps the 70th feed (of 450+) – and doesn’t recover well,
• backing off this one for now – I’ll come back if nothing else seems to suit.

My dear Rojo seems to be having problems lately, at least for me, and I’m tired of missing hours of bloggy goodness without decent recourse, so I’m looking for a desktop backup plan.

The sole and only absolute criterion for me is that I be able to read my feeds in the safe and effective “River of News” style – way back when (almost a year ago now – when my blog was still on Blogspot) that was what I was looking for when I discovered MyFeedster. Rojo took its place when I started to get better results from it, and I’m addicted to the ease of use that the river allows.

Other than that I’ll judge each on its merits, and I’ll be posting about each one I try here.