The battle is over. In this theater, Google Reader has won the day.
In Bloglines' favor:
- Visible feed subscriber counts
- Automatically picks up redirected feeds better (I think)
- Autorefresh works better, the subs panel and items view stay in sync automatically
- Integrated search
- No phantom saved items
- Starring is sweet
- Reading feels a hell of a lot faster, collapsed headlines mitigates my discomfort with River of News style reading.
- Better at false duplicates
- Saving items is easy, saved items are out of the way (although I get a demerit for never getting into Bloglines keyboard shortcuts)
- Tagging of feeds and items
- Holding out hope for a GData based GReader API.