For a while, I've been passively looking for a RSS parser in Python.  Lo and behold, when surfing the blogosphere this morning, I came across a recommendation by Aaron Swartz: Orchard.  In fact, Orchard looks like something even better than just a RSS processor -- it's a general toolkit for handling node-containing documents (a class that encompasses basically all the documents I care about:  METS, RSS, IMS-CP, OPML, OpenOffice.org XML, etc).  Looking forward to trying it.  Here's the obligatory paragraph blurb on Orchard:

Orchard is a data manipulation framework centered around "nodes". Nodes are quite similar to "objects" in most Object-Oriented languages but emphasize passive data models over methods and behaviors, or object models. Nodes in Orchard languages act just like native container classes -- hashes in Perl, objects in Python.

There are a lot of blogs right now that I know about and read occassionally that aren't on my blogroll yet.  I've been wanting to have an integrated solution -- one that holds together references to blogrolls that I accumulate while browsing, materials I've dumped into Ecco, a tool that would let me read off other people's blogrolls, one that also is a RSS crawler and aggregator -- all rolled into one.  Perhaps a solution exists already but I just haven't had the time to find it.  (I imagine there is, with all the pieces out there to do the job now:  RSS aggregators, blogroll indicators and collectors, RSD, trackback,  etc.)

Oh LazyWeb, may you make such a solution manifest to us all.