I've posted up a first copy of what i think the reader on hecticrss will look like. It works pretty sweet, its all AJAX and it automatically updates. Only thing i dont like is if you scroll down the list of items and click one, you lose ur scroll position and it goes back to the top. I haven't found a nice enough solution yet. take a look, i've even put some links on there so u can try it out without too much effort.