I have a bad habit of opening tons of links and then when closing their parents not knowing where they came from but that article was so good I had to backtrack and see where it came from, I really enjoyed it.

Now and then (not nearly as often nowadays) I come across really great blogs that I'd like to read on an ongoing basis and I think I used to use Google Reader or something until they killed it and then I just stopped - is there something comparable nowadays, and do most blogs support some common protocol?