Provide an interface for keyboard navigation to skip
through items, mark them as read, change feeds, etc.
Something similar to GoogleMail may be nice as users
are already getting used to an interface like that.
Try to use the "accessKey" or other Accessibility
preferred interfaces specified and supported in XHTML
with minimal Javascript overhead. It needs to degrade
to non-JS capable systems. They don't need the keyboard
nav, but all other functionality should work as well.