Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1, I explained what RSS is and how to use it. Please read that if you need a refresher on why RSS is awesome and why you should be using it if you take reading news on the internet seriously. The prefix to Trimming in Public is “Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash.” For the bloggers out there who read IntoMobile, I hope you get a better idea of what I do to keep on top of the news. For the readers who read IntoMobile, I know that this site isn’t the only mobile focused technology publication on the internet, and by sharing which sites I read I’m hoping that you’ll keep on coming back here. Taking out the trash has an obvious explanation, I can’t keep up with my RSS feeds and need to trim my list. For those who want to download my complete list of 293 RSS feeds, feel free to grab my OPML file.
Check out Episode 16 after the jump, and all episodes by clicking on the Trimming in Public tag:
Up to the letter “O” today. Show me your “O” face 🙂
- Office Evolution: Marc died almost 2 years ago 🙁 so he is obviously not going to update his blog anymore. Sigh, sad to seem him go. I almost forgot about him, but seeing his feed in my reader brought back memories. Decision: Unsubscribe.
- Office of the CTO blogs: Dead feed, dead site. This used to be the blog of Bob Iannucci, who was once the CTO of Nokia, but then he got kicked out of the company. The official press has been told that he resigned, but internally there was talk that he had been fired because he tried to make Nokia’s Research Center be more U.S.A centric versus Finnish. Obviously those are just rumours, I don’t know what to believe. Decision: Dead RSS feed = unsubscribe, but it is not going to be counted towards today’s list of 10.
- Official Google Mobile Blog: Google is a search company, first and foremost, but man do they kick ass at creating software for mobile devices. This is their official mobile blog and definitely one I intend to keep on reading. I tell everyone this: Google Maps is the killer to make use of the GPS chip inside your mobile phone. I literally can’t go anywhere in any city without it. It’s sad, but true. I’m talking restaurants less than 1 kilometer away, I still use Google Maps. Having removed the cognitive load for remembering where things are allows me to store more things in my mind. Knowing where I am at any given time allows me to roam a city aimlessly with no fears of getting lost. Being able to layer data from Wikipedia over my maps = awesome as well. Decision: Keep on reading this blog, with pleasure.
- Opera Mini Blog: Opera’s official Opera Mini blog. It helps me keep up to date on what the company is working on. It’s a bit redundant since all of their new stuff is highly publicized and I have a fantastic relationship with their public relations folks. That being said, Opera Mini is one of my favorite mobile applications. Be sure to read my review of Opera Mini 5 beta. Decision: I love Opera Mini, therefore I love this blog as well.
- Orange Cone: I think this blog was recommended to me by Adam Greenfield, I’m not quite sure. Either way, it is written by Mike Kuniavsky, a very forward thinking designer and technologist. He doesn’t blog too often, but when he does I eagerly read his stuff. Things like the internet of things, the future of social, all that new age internet hippie shit; I love it. Decision: Keep on reading.
- O’Reilly Radar – Insight, analysis, and research about emerging tech: I’m jealous of the O’Reilly folks. They host conferences and get to listen to the best of the best talk about the trends they’re seeing and from that data they distill an awesome set of links and content which they share on O’Reilly Radar. There is a daily post called “four short links” that shares 4 links and a few sentences about what each of them are, and the topics range wildly from the future of journalism, to being green, to government transparency. I like to think of this blog as Reader’s Digest for technologists. Decision: One of my favorite blogs, keep on reading.
- OSNews.com: There used to be a time when I had three or more operating systems on my machine. I would try every new Linux distribution out there, beta versions of Windows operating systems, you name it, I probably ran it at one point on my system. OS News does a fantastic job at keeping track of what’s going on in the operating system space, Linux, and they even touch on mobile devices every once in a while. Today, this blog is useless to me since I am no longer a part of the intended audience. I run one operating system, Windows 7, and I have a workflow and certain applications, with every keyboard shortcut memorized, that works for me so well that I’m too stubborn to change. Decision: No longer interesting. Unsubscribe.
- Palm Developer Network Blog: I’m not a developer. I subscribed to this blog back when there was little to no information out about webOS and I was hoping that there would be something mentioned to developers that wasn’t mentioned to consumers, which I could then pick up and write about. It’s a bit useless to me really. Decision: Unsubscribe.
- Palm, Inc. – All News Releases: All of Palm’s press releases, delivered straight to my RSS reader. When I was a kid I had a Palm Pilot, a Handspring Visor, and a Sony CLIÉ. I used the living hell out of my Palm devices. I had a whole range of accessories for them, including a fold out keyboard that let me take notes in class. This was way before anyone at Palm ever though of shoving a cellular radio inside one of their products. I miss those days. The Pre is … well I can’t say too much about it since I’ve never touched one. The Pixie looks interesting too, my preferred form factor. What I’m waiting for is something that can compete with the Nokia N95/N96/N82 in terms of camera performance. Decision: I need this RSS feed for my job, and I love Palm.
- PalmInfocenter: A Palm fan blog. Why on Earth am I reading this? You can’t even buy Palm devices in Europe. Decision: Unsubscribe.
- Patricia Handschiegel: I used to have a very bad habit of subscribing to a blog if I was linked to one really excellent blog post. Patricia must have written such a blog post because she has been in my RSS reader for a while, yet every time I bump into her feed I always “mark as read”. Decision: Unsubscribe.
Well that’s it for today, down to 169. I’m thinking that once I reach the bottom of my list of RSS feeds I should do one more episode and just name the feeds that have remained, along with a 140 character description, in one epically long blog post. What do you think?