Well, its not like you guys were the first to use Connect as a product name for a web service anyhow. There was Adobe Connect, and WebEx introduced a Connect product a few days after that...
Nice work. I guess the focus on small font sizes comes from looking at this from a reading experience POV, right? Curious what you think of techniques like sIFR for headlines and such...
I use NetNewsWire on the Mac myself, but my techniques are similar. I'm glad it doesn't offer the statistics you get from Google Reader - if I saw how much stuff I read on a monthly basis it would probably depress me...