On July 1, 03 Mark Fletcher (developer of egroups) launched Bloglines.
Bloglines is a server-based news aggregator. With it, you can subscribe to your favorite blogs and newsfeeds. It will then track changes to those sites, making it easy for you to keep up to date with the blogs you read. You can download and install software like Feed Reader or Awasu. I have stopped installing any software on my windows machine. I use multiple machines and multiple operating systems, so a server-based solution made the most sense. There are many other advantages to using a service instead of downloading a program.