Google Reader Mobile leads to Feed Pruning

I'd been meaning to prune the list of RSS feeds that I follow on Google Reader, but always managed to put off the task.

Tonight, I finally found a good reason to sit down and do it: Google Reader's Mobile-friendly version.

The mobile version of Reader has actually been available for 11 months, but I was unaware that it existed, since I only started paying attention to mobile versions of websites this year.

Given the limited screen size that mobile browsers have, I don't want to be wasting time and money loading links and feeds that are no longer relevant to me, hence the feed pruning.

One other happy side effect: I've rediscovered wonderful feeds that I had been ignoring for a while because I had not yet gotten around to classifying them correctly. It's always good to unearth old, forgotten treasures.

Feedburning in Progress

Thanks to a recent post on the Google Reader Blog, I finally went through the trouble of signing up for a Feedburner account and adding RSS subscription buttons to my sidebar.

Doing this was a lot easier than I thought it would be, thanks to some lovely widget integration between Feedburner and the new, improved Blogger.

I don't really expect to have a lot of subscribers, but I like getting a feel of the different nuances involved in running a blog, without the pressure of actually managing a professional one.