Q that probably isn’t even a problem: is it normal for Google Reader (in general) to pull feed items when you click on the specific feed name, but not when you just have all of your feeds displayed? I was clicking through a few individual friend feeds to check something else the other day, and Reader would often go “oh, huh, here’s some new posts”.

And I do understand that Reader is slower to update less-trafficked feeds. I just find it weird that clicking on individual feeds seems to “remind” Reader to check some of them.