Bloglines is my online feedreader of choice because you can often read posts much older than when you first subscribed, and you get the blog feature to share clippings and comments (you can use it as a full blown blog or as a mini blog), also good for discovering new blogs to read...has quite a few ways to do that. You can get in big trouble and end up sufferring from information overload if you start checking out the public blogrolls of the people that are subscribed to the same feeds as you. You could end up doubling your feed count very quickly.
By the way, Google Reader comes in 3 flavors, all 3 of which can be used in a desktop browser, each having their pros & cons:
1. The one everyone already knows about. (Too slow for use on my current PC)
2. Blogger Dashboard (needs a
Blogger account) - They call it "following" and it can handle a lot of feeds (I have over 200 loaded in it) and is great for speed reading excerpts of all your feed's posts from the last 24 hours. There is no read/unread status for items and you can't save or mark them in any way...just a river of headlines, excerpts & links to original items. This is very good for people suffering information overload and will help you limit yourself. Runs good on a slow pc/connection.
3.
Mobile version - no frills, no clutter, fast loading on desktop, and bonus is fast loading mobile versions of web pages with no scripting and very few ads, when you click a link from a feed item...also allows sharing items with friends, like it's big brother (shared items will link to original pages unless they are read in Google Mobile). This is good for the slowest of PC's that can't handle Bloglines (or very slow dialup connections), but you'll need access to a decent PC to import your OPML and set it all up in the regular version of Google Reader, first.
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