I’m incredibly addicted to RSS. I add feeds on a whim, and periodically weed through my list, removing feeds that haven’t updated in the last 2 months.
Some quick stats from Google Reader: Currently sitting at 94 feeds. 4,149 items in the last 30 days, which is roughly 140 per day. I do most of my reading at or before 7am, with another spike around 11pm. I use Google Reader because I love it. It is integrated with Firefox, so I just have to click a few times and it’s added to my reader. I also like it because it is the same whether I check on my PC, my girlfriend’s PC, my mobile, or my N800.
RSS is one thing that I’d hope I could put off entirely on my mobile. Sadly, that’s simply not the case. It works for merely weeding through and finding the things that I might find interesting or want to blog about. With Google Reader on my mobile phone (www.google.com/reader/m) I can scan the headlines, or go one-by-one and star the ones that I want to come back to. However, there are a few problems with Mobile RSS…
The first problem on the mobile comes with the multimedia aspects.
Pictures show up ok. It’s not a great experience, but it works. Video,
however, is completely not doable, at least on the N73. I’m also not
impressed with it on the N800.
The other problem with RSS on the go is using them for reference. I try
my best to not simply reblog stuff. The last thing I want Symbian-Guru.com
to become is a commented RSS reader. In that regard, I do my best to
link to the article and give a little bit of background, but then
populate the whole post with my thoughts on the subject. Thus, I do
alot of linking, and neither the N800 or the N73 is good for that.
So for using your mobile device as an RSS reader, I’m going to go
50-50. It’s useful for going through and weeding out the interesting
stuff, but not really useful for followup. I realize there’s a TON of
different RSS apps for S60. I’ve tried several of them, and simply
found them lacking. The biggest oversight is OPML importing. With 94
feeds and growing, there’s no way in hell I’m going to manually type in
every single one of those. If I can’t import my OPML file, I’m through.
