NewsBlur vs Yahoo News Digest

NewsBlur has a discovery algorithm that users can "train" to show stories they are interested in and hide ones they don't care about.

By default arrow keys and spacebar are used to quickly navigate stories, but they can be rebound for premium accounts.

NewsBlur allows users to customize the font size, line spacing, story layout, and type faces.

Very fast to navigate around the UI and load articles.

NewsBlur offers an option of reading articles just like they are displayed on the original site.

Works on iOS, Android, and as a webapp.

Feeds can be grouped into folders for easier management and to allow users to separate feeds for work, comics, research, etc.

Burblog is a simple, customizable website for sharing stories with comments that people can subscribe to.

You can forward email newsletters to a user-specific email address to have them aggregated in your feed reader along with your RSS content.

NewsBlur is FOSS, so it can be freely modified & redistributed.

Free version has a limit of 64 sites. Upgrading to unlimited sites costs $1/month.

Great look and feel to the app as you swipe though stories or scroll down on a headline to read more details. Most stories come with custom designed graphs tailored for the story.

Rather than give you full articles, the app creates "Atoms". It's a short summary of the news event, generated from a variety of different sources.
It provides infographs, images, videos and more to help you quickly understand the news event. This means you are able to read through all of the news stories in minutes.

Hard to get lost in reading news when you only get 8-12 stories at a time.