I withdraw the suggestion to use the name of the RSS feed as a placeholder for untitled posts.
However, I do still maintain that repeating the first few words of a post twice is bad design.
In the case of untitled posts, what should Newsblur do with the space that the title would otherwise occupy? I think that would depend on the view—whether we’re looking at the full, list, split, magazine or grid view. Perhaps leave the title blank in the full, split, magazine and grid view, and use the first chunk of text as the title in the list view?
Feedbin and Inoreader do a good job of handling this problem—perhaps take a look at how they do it? (Newsblur is otherwise superior for me, which is why I’m here. 
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A separate but related problem: Feeds that intentionally include the first few words of the content in the title field for untitled posts. Examples of these are untitled feeds on Tumblr and kottke.org. I’d love to see Newsblur fix that too, but perhaps that’s a problem for another day.
Thank you for giving this request your attention and thought.
