If you use Google Reader as your feed reader and wanted a desktop version of it then you should try ReadAir. It is a new adobe AIR application that brings Google Reader to the desktop.
It is a early release so don’t expect to function fully. It doesn’t support keyboard shortcuts and themes yet, these [...]

Update: Feedburner has an explanation
Today morning i was shocked to see my feedburner counter, it is showing 40% less than yesterday’s counter. I checked other blog chicklets and their counters also effected today.
Logged in to Feedburner to see what is happening, and the culprit is Google Reader stats. Feedburner has not counted Google Reader [...]

Google Reader now shows the number of subscribers a blog RSS feed has via Google Reader.
To see the number of subscribers count for any feed click on Add Subscription button in your google reader and search with the name of a blog or keyword and it shows the subscriber count next to each feed.

These numbers [...]

The much awaited feature in Google Reader, the ability to search feeds with keywords is added today. You can search your subscribed feeds as well as shared feed items using keywords.
It took long for the company who is specialized in search to add this feature to Google reader. Along with search there are some [...]

Lifehacker came up with a firefox extension to pimp Google Reader in Firefox. Better greader is a Firefox addon that rolled up three greasemonkey scripts (maximizing the viewing area, skipping Google’s default subscribe mechanism, and adding keyboard shortcuts.) in one extension.
What it does:

You will get maximum amount of space for the feed viewing area.
Adds keyboard [...]