Also setting up demo.rss.chat was a good thing to do, but if it requires moderation, that'll be the point at which I consider asking people to run their own services. We are working dilligently to make running an instance easier and easier. 

Think about blogging, RSS and podcasting -- we managed to get the first apps out in each of the categories, and we enjoyed some success, but what was really successful was seeding the market. This time, at my advanced age, I'm hoping to do another seeding. The web has done so much good for us, I want to help it get back on its feet, if I can. Hoping to interest other people in doing the same.

BTW, I already have a fine feed reader -- FeedLand. We're going to make a fresh pass over that, and make sure it's all well hooked up to RSS.chat, both ways. Any feed readers software can follow what we do there. I think the most important thing will be dynamic subscriptions, what we have called reading lists in the past, basically allow people to subscribe to subscription lists.