Bloglines is fabolous but too complacent,could use tagging.
Newsgator sucks and Rojo is decent. Feedlounge is great but not worth the $5/month, so yeah!

If you are interested in this topic, you could check out the “Perfect Feedreader”. It’s my own 25 points which would make a feedreader perfect.

I’m using Liferea for reading newsfeeds on my Linux box. It’s a very powerful tool, Liferea can even save a username and password for feeds that require one.
http://liferea.sourceforge.net/

http://feedsaggregator.codicesorgente.it
http://www.circus.it
http://riassunto.jk.it

Although, I just hope the sluggish performance improves – don’t know why they had to roll out the new design (ie: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it)

Have you tried reblog? PHP / MySQL Sourceforge project (see reblog.org) with the right use of AJAX and runs on your server. I know you’ve indicated you’re not much of a techie, but the installation is straightforward (you just edit one file with your config details). I’ve been trying it out as my main RSS reader since reading an excellent post about it on Lifehacker and have been quite impressed.

The one thing that makes reblog better than the other online readers is you store and keep the data. You aren’t reliant on somebody else’s server being up or down (bloglines plumber, anyone?). You can control how often you want to check the feeds instead of hoping the online reader is being responsible and respectful to publishers. You can search past posts through your RSS feeds (those you’ve archived or marked as published). For those who read a lot of feeds, you can get a good workflow going where pounding through 500-1000+ posts a day is a swift and organized process.

In fact, I got to this very post through reblog this morning.

One thing I do *not* like about reblog is how it makes everything public that you have marked as ‘published’ — in my case I added a robots.txt file that tells the robots to stay out of that out directory. I’m thinking about going a step further and adding authentication as well to the output file. It’s not that I don’t mind sharing what posts I find interesting, it’s just that it shares too much of the post (the entire post) and that has splog connotations (something you’ve written about here at problogger before as being concerned about and which I agree wholeheartedly).

This comment might sound like an ad for reblog, but I have nothing to do with them. Just a happy reblog user and problogger reader who is curious what you think about this compared to the online RSS readers mentioned in your piece above. If you’d like someone technical to help you set it up (no charge) feel free to drop me a line privately at the email in my address.

But Newsgator is the only service that syncs with both FeedDemon and NetNewsWire so it’s my choice, no matter how cool some of the other sites may appear to be.

A.H