My Netvibes Dashboard on Hold - Searching for a Good RSS Module

I’ve got a blog post queued up, ready to go, talking about the results of my feed categorization. But as I’ve started to plunk a few feeds and widgets onto my dashboard, I’m realizing something that might just be a show stopper, or at least will require a major shift in the way I view things.

Having my screen filled with things I’ve already read seems like a big waste of space. Sure, the built-in Netvibes RSS module lets me configure how many items to show, and you can “mark as read” so that they’re not bold, but I still have a screen full of widgets with grayed-out headlines that are no longer relevant. This is annoying on the big screen, but when I’m mobile this is a huge usability issue… I have to sit on scroll though tons of old data to pick out the new stuff. Tonight was the first time I seriously tried to use the Netvibes mobile interface, and having to scroll though screen after screen of already-read data was a huge time-wasting pain in the ass.

Is there a better RSS module? I found a Greasemonkey script that claims it’ll do what I’m asking on the full screen version. I haven’t tried it out, but my biggest usability beef is with the mobile interface. Unless there’s a module which can hide read items from the server side, this may be the end of my Netvibes adventure…