Not exactly what you want, and limited to UK use, but I carry one of these around with me most of the time: https://www.themu.co.uk/

It's even smaller than I thought it would be, and so much more portable than a normal UK plug.

If Google want us to move from Reader to Google+, why are they not pushing it as a replacement? Do they think RSS users are a lost cause?

RSS users were always a tiny minority, and have become more tiny with social networks (especially Twitter).

I haven't tried many of the services on this list, but I would recommend Feedly. It can be a bit slow, and the fact that it requires a browser extension is a bit off-putting, but those things are being improved I believe.

They seem to be willing to listen to their users (in particular all of the ex-Google Reader users) and are improving the service very quickly, trying to cater for everyone's seemingly different needs.

The Android app is great as well, and is a much more visual reading experience than Google Reader was (but it doesn't have to be- it seems to be very highly configurable).

The fact that it's free is a bit worrying, but in a survey they sent out last month they asked if user's would be willing to pay a small fee for it- so this might be where it heads in the future (I'd hope so, anyway).

One thing I can't figure out about Feedly is if they're using their own sync service yet or if they are still relying on Google's while they work on building their own.

The impression I get is that their own system (Normandy) is running concurrently, and they'll switch seamlessly once Google Reader shuts down.

I think the layout has to look natural, because that one didn't work for me.

Partly due to big line breaks, partly due to short lines of text, and partly due to short overall text length.

This could actually have a very helpful application- generating maps with customised colour schemes. Anyone with a form of colour blindness will know that some of the lines on the standard map are basically indistinguishable from each-other, and while TfL does provide a black-and-white map, it's designed for ALL forms of colour blindness, so they've had to come up with a load of different patterns, making it a bit messy (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/14091.aspx).

With this CSS map a user could customise the colour/pattern of just a couple of problem lines (I could already in Firebug, but it would be great if there was a control panel to fiddle these things and then provide print/save links). Just an idea!

Actually, SVG can use "classes" just like CSS, so it could be easily recolored in SVG too.

I suppose the main thing you'd need is a data source mapping the stations and lines, then build it in whatever technology from that. The information page doesn't mention where the data came from, so I imagine it was manually created. I don't think TfL would be too willing to provide that data either, judging by the comments regarding licensing etc. in this thread.

You can however disable pre-installed apps on newer Android (4+?) phones.

So if Mozilla is involved, how does MDN factor into this? Are both expected to co-exist?

Edit: addressed here https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/10/welcoming-the-new-kid-web-...

So if Google is involved, how does HTML5 Rocks factor into this? Are both expected to co-exist?

In all likelihood all three will co-exist, but w3schools will continue to get most of the traffic.

This is pretty fun to play around with, if a bit difficult to navigate- I kept flying all over the place when trying to look at a particular episode in the initial view. Amazing work anyway, and as a (heavy) Lostpedia contributor (around the season 3 days) it's nice to see the data being used in interesting ways.

In fact, I'm pretty sure if you put an invalid font name in you get a default proportional font.

Doesn't work for me either in Aurora (Firefox 16) or Chrome 21 beta (on Windows 7).