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I'm not sure about the OP, but I use Fever:

You have to host it yourself, but after using it for five minutes it proved to me that it is was more than worth the $30.

Thanks for this recommendation. As a Bloglines user for years who has tried and failed a few times to like Google Reader, Fever seems to be exactly what I am looking for. It took some time to get everything up and running on my server and configured, but is a solid application and agree it is more than worth a one time $30 fee.

Particularly interesting is its concept of Sparks (a.k.a. RSS feeds with a high volume of posts that you wouldn't subscribe to normally.) Fever uses them to help "feed the fire" and surface the most relevant/interesting content from the publications you do subscribe to.

Also works very well on the iphone. These are just first impressions but so far I'm pretty impressed.

I use the NewsFox plug-in in Firefox.

The answer shows my bias, I suppose, but I alternate between Plum (a feed aggregator that I am building) and Fever, which is great, but doesn't work even remotely how I want it to, and I hate that it's a self-hosted application that I pay for. It's worth the money, to be sure, I just really don't like the model as it applies to me.