Barbara Stephenson of Rojo tells me they’ve implemented a few new features over the last few days, two of which related to requests that I (probably among others) had made.

• They’ve made the selection for “Show unread” a sticky preference, meaning that once I set that option it stays set for return visits to the site. This is very useful, as I typically only want to see stuff I haven’t read yet; another bit of evidence that Rojo gets the attention problem (and a feature that some other web aggregators don’t seem to offer - I don’t see the option to view all items in Bloglines, for instance, or the see only unread items in Feedster). The only thing I’d quibble with (and it really is a quibble) is that the option is currently set site-wide - if I decide that I want to view all items for my feed of NPR stories, that doesn’t necessarily mean that I also want to see all items in my other feeds. This item was in the Rojo Suggestions wiki, and has been marked as completed (yay!).
• Rojo added unread counts to the list of tags (used to be available only per feed). This is also great (though a little disheartening; my unread items in the feeds I want to keep up with every day are up to almost 2300)!

My thanks to Rojo for listening to the users. I’m looking forward to many happy hours browsing the feedstream!