> For me the purpose of RSS is to get the newest headlines, choose the interesting articles and skip the rest.

That's the only way I ever conceived of it.

What the author describes is unappealing to me. I choose my RSS feeds deliberately. I sort them into five categories, only two of which are must-view. Around half the articles from those two will be worth reading and I want to know that I didn't miss anything from either one. The rest is there for when I have extra time to kill while standing in line at the store, waiting for an elevator, etc.

If everything is random, I'll never know if I missed the one article that would have been the most important to me.