Then Aggie brought me some information on Newswire, which sounds cool. The problem is that it may be too high tech to get adopted (sad isn't it), and it's not clear how they intend to distribute Newswire itself.

If RSS really takes off, then it seems like RSS notification of some kind is necessary. Then again, I'd be happy if someone just dumped rss items into an inbox that was hooked to my aggregator (spam excepted, of course -- which I guess is why this can't work, sigh). The other problem with e-mail and push-like solutions is the centralization aspect of it. If I rely on the blogs I read to remember that I read them, then if they crash and loose the subscription list, I might never find out (unless they are one of the top-tier daily bloggers). Newswire does sound cool.