Last time Michigan and Ohio went at it, Ohio got Toledo and Michigan got the entire Upper Peninsula. Maybe if Ohio tries again Michigan will get all of Canada.

I use NetNewsWire as well; can't beat it. It's been around forever, free, open-source, and actively maintained.

Facebook and Twitter were a big blow to RSS, as a lot of people would follow news sites/blogs that would cross post to those sites, but it never died. Now that some of these sites like Twitter are imploding I hope more people go back to RSS. I never stopped using it and think it's a great tool more people should be aware of. It seems like the people who were involved in creating the early tools of the internet were really smart in thinking about protocols instead of monolithic platforms, then the Web2.0 bros screwed everything up for a while.