Michael Sauers is currently the Technology Innovation Librarian for the Nebraska Library Commission in Lincoln, Nebraska and has been training librarians in technology for more than 15 years. He has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller. He earned his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael’s eleventh book, Semantic Web Technologies and Social Searching for Librarians was published May 2012 and has two more books on the way. He has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs Web sites for authors and historical societies, takes many, many photos, and reads more than 100 books a year.
http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/
I already bounced a couple ideas off Blake. If you’ve got properly IMAP compliant e-mail (GMail does not count whatsoever) then rigging up rss2email on a server would at least drop feed posts in your e-mail inbox to read. Evan Prodromou was mentioning a bunch of other web-based services that can be self-hosted and there are desktop clients available like newsbeuter, canto, liferea, and Thunderbird. Mike Linksvayer also mentioned Newsblur as a possibility though it was under heavy strain at that time as people were migrating to it hurriedly.