[carpdiem]

At the risk of sounding like a shill, have you tried Feedly? (feedly.com)

I switched over to it ages ago after the death of google reader, and it's held up remarkably well for me, and now also includes welcome features for, e.g., intaking email newsletters, conducting automatic content-specific web searches, etc into the same RSS-reader UI.

It's one SW subscription I'm happy to pay for.

[faeranne]

I'm gonna have to give this a thumbs up for use too. I'm not a fan of it being propritary, or tied to a web service, but it works amazingly well for what it is. I'm still hunting for a good self-hosted or offline alternative, but till then, Feedly really does cover that gap.