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Pity RSS2PAGE isn’t web-based and free as it seems to be a good option to present your newsmastering efforts…here is a sample of what you could make.

What is good about it is the look, it databases all your items, and the fact the you can make categories and sub-categories…so you can make a category such as Entertainment and have a number of sub-categories, like Movies, Music, etc…
The limiting thing is the you can’t read the top level category as a river of news (it’s not clickable), and you can’t see the source feeds within a sub-category (ie. you may want to read all items from just one source within the Music sub-category).

In all I like the professional look, you can now make your own news portal and generate some income from the ads…the categories are clean and visibile, and all items are indexed.

Imagine making a news portal out of a Public Bloglines account, this is what it would look like.

You might need Feed Digest or MySyndicaat for full processing features, all on offer here is straight simple merging of feeds (this is what each sub-category is composed of)

Where is the search box?

Where is the tag cloud (ie. if you use blogs or bookmark services as your news sources)?

Where is the feed, and category feeds?

Besides being web-based and free:

SuprGlu has a tagcloud, a monthly archive, and lists the sources (although the limit is you can’t view posts by source)

Blogdigger Groups also archives all posts (but you can’t browse by date), also lacks folders…but it does have search and feeds, but it lacks the professional look of RSS2PAGE.
Blogdigger groups lets you view results from just one source, whereas the most granular RSS2PAGE gets is a sub-category…I wish Blogdigger Groups would let you view contents by a selection of sources, not just one or all.

I guess Blogdigger groups has the advantage of a powerful search feature, but the presentation lets it down, they’ve been talking about revamping this service for a while…hey another cool feature is that it has an OPML file reading list…they were trendy ages ago.

MySyndicaat has the processing power, but the presentation is still in it’s infancy.

kickRSS is not too far off Blogdigger Groups (actually the labels are better, and there is a date archive, but keep in mind it doesn’t store items after 7 days)

Then there is the lightweight RSSMix.

Who know if Feed Digest will get beyond processing feeds and into aggregated portals.

Others:

Peoplefeeds (more about personal aggregation)…but I like tabbed pages, similar to categories in a way…why not have both (also has a tagcloud).

Bozpages is more simple, but it has different views (display boxes or RSS widgets), such as Fyuze, Etamp and others

…more.