Well, after taking Kleio’s suggestion, I signed up for Bloglines.com, which is a web-based News Aggregator. So far, I do like the service… of course, I have a few suggestions:

1. When in the folder “Tree View” it is really annoying to have everything marked as read just by clicking on the folder name. It’s instinctive to click on the folder name to expend the folder (since it is underlined as a link) and when that marks everything as read, well, it pisses me off.
2. It would be very nice to not have everything automatically be marked as read… when I open a subscription. Sometimes I want to skim entries, but come back later to really read them, and I don’t want to “Save” entires, or use a pulldown to make them visible again. If you had a preference to be able to set “Mark As Read” to default to off with a “Mark Read” link, similar to the “Mark Unread” link in the Blog Title box, that would be really great. I think it would suit both styles of readership equally.
3. Nothing against the color scheme but it would be nice to customize it.
4. Making the “Saved Items” folder searchable would be the bomb.
5. It would be really cool if I could export an XML file with my saved entries.

I think that they are 95% of the way to my dream news reader… and if they go the distance and are able to add features like the ones I’ve suggested, I would gladly pay for this type of service.