Old news first
Point for discussion: when browsing items in your favourite RSS feed reader, does it not make more sense for the reader to present the oldest new items first?
It’s a continuity thing: if I’m catching up with a blog that has a few unread posts, I want to see the oldest items first so that if newer items reference them, I get the reference. I use the “next unread item” command in NetNewsWire all the time, but by default both the Mac edition and iPhone/iPod touch edition put newest items first, so the order of reading always feels backwards to me. (I’m only talking within one particular blog or site: I don’t care that much which order I read the different blogs themselves.)
There doesn’t seem to be any preference to control this in either edition of NetNewsWire.