The bloglines team is looking for some freedback. Here are my top 5 suggested changes:

  1. Remove the “My blog” feature. There are so many alternative blog publishing services that this one is just redundant. The ability to publish blogs merely detracts from the core blog-reading features of Bloglines.
  2. Replace “Clippings” with Del.icio.us integration. When it comes to online bookmarks, everyone is using Del.icio.us. Why not offer a tighter integration with it? Alternatively, allow anyone to plugin their bookmarking service of choice?
  3. Get rid of the exclamation point (!) indicator. Replace it with a message that is displayed in the right panel when a user clicks on the affected blog. Make the message more descriptive by giving more information about why the feed is not updating.
  4. Add the ability to cluster related blog posts much like Google news. We all know the blogsphere has a tendency to become an echo chamber. I would dearly love a feature that looked over all the feeds and clustered related posts together.
  5. The “Add, Edit, Options” links at the top and the “Extras list” at the bottom of the left frame feel out of place. The navigation is awkward and I find myself clicking around to find simple things like import/export of opml. I’d suggest re-working the flow.

Thanks for asking.