I have resolved the issue I had with extra characters appearing in my reBlog posts. The culprit was “magic quotes” and php. I was able to disable magic quotes by adding the following line to my .htaccess file:
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
The folks that produce reBlog sent me the tip. A complete description of the havoc magic quotes causes is detailed
here.
So after moving on from my Radio based site, I now have a pretty efficient way to read posts and “reBlog” them to my site. I still like the UI offered in Bloglines better, but I’m getting used to reBlog.