Bloglines is the best RSS reader out there, and I'm about to tell you why.
1. It's Web-based so you can keep up with your RSS subscriptions from anywhere. Read a few in the morning from home, and they're marked as read when you later log on from campus or work. You don't need to download a reader application.
2. There's a bookmarklet to auto-discover and subscribe to the feeds on any page you visit.
3. You can e-mail to a friend, "blog this" or clip any article. Clipping an article puts it in your choice of folders for later perusal. It works fast so you need never hesitate to send something off or save it for future reference.
4. It's free.
I'd change just one thing about Bloglines: When I signed up, at least, the "My Blogs" listing of my subscriptions defaulted to displaying the last month's worth of entries. This created a long load time for me and must have been a heck of server load for Bloglines, so I'd suggest changing the default to display the last 24 hours or week's worth of posts.
Bloglines' creator, Mark Fletcher, deserves a pat on the back.
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