In list view you can expand any entry by clicking on it, and close it up again to see the list by hitting Enter. There's also a nice list of keyboard shortcuts for navigating the entries and using the reader's categorization tools.
Google Reader gives you many more ways of slicing and dicing the information you're seeing than the other two readers. You can display individual feeds in the navigation pane, or sort them into folders. You can categorize feed entries by adding a star to the list entry, adding the entry to your "Shared Items" page, or tagging entries with keywords -- and you can use multiple keywords on an entry. The tags show up in the navigation pane as virtual folders.
Google Reader gives you a couple of ways of communicating the results of your knowledge-management activities. One is the "Shared Items" page, built automatically as you mark feed entries as shared. This page has a Web address you can share with others (it can be subscribed to via RSS, as well). The other way uses the tags and some knowledge of HTML. In the Settings menu for tags you'll find that if you make a collection of entries (not only the "Shared Items" but starred items, tagged items, and folders) public, you can grab JavaScript code that, when added to a Web page, will display a linked list of entry titles. You can configure the title, color scheme and number of items displayed -- and it's available for any number of collections.
Bottom line: Google Reader is the winner for helping you cope with the flood of RSS-delivered information in its intelligently designed interface. While it lacks the blogging integration of Bloglines, its unlimited sharing of collections via embedded JavaScript in other Web pages is very powerful.
NewsGator Online
Newsgator Online is a product of Newsgator Technologies, the same company that publishes the FeedDemon RSS reader application. Newsgator Online offers the most limited feature set of the three readers reviewed here, probably because it is obviously intended to serve as a free sample of the fuller-featured Newsgator Online Premium, available for $19.95 a year. (In another sense, Newsgator may be the most customizable of the three readers -- it's the only one to offer an application programming interface.)
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The free version of Newsgator offers a full set of services for finding and subscribing to feeds. There is a "Subscribe" bookmarklet, and you can install a "subscribe to this feed" function that appears on Internet Explorer's context menu and is accessible with a right mouseclick. The reader offers extensive browsing and recommendations for discovering feeds. There is also a "Smart Feed" option: You can set up a search of the feeds that pass through the Newsgator servers, and display the search results as another feed in Newsgator. Uniquely among the three readers, Newsgator Online will manage credentials for feeds that require a login and password.
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