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Friday Jun 1 2007

I'm probably one of the last bloggers in the world to do this but I've finally switched to FeedBurner. The main reason is the fact that I thought it would be interesting to know how many people are actually subscribed to what I have to say. A secondary reason is the fact that FeedBurner allows to add all kinds of semi-useful extras to the feed such as the number of del.icio.us bookmarks, Diggs, Technorati links and a lot more. The new feed is here but everyone subscribed to the old feed should be redirected to the new one automatically.

Even though the little graphic in my sidebar still shows a depressing '0 readers' everything seems to be working fine. Auto-discovery tags are updated and the original feed address brings up the FeedBurner feed. I guess it needs some time to come to life. If there's any problems I'd love to hear about it.

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At 02 June '07 - 04:22 Bakkel wrote:
Works fine now. Tags are up to date. Almost 500 readers according to Feedburner. I know you use mint, so can get your feedburner stats in you mint installation. Not everything, but it’s a start.
At 02 June '07 - 08:31 Simon wrote:
I’m probably one of the few out there, but I still think it’s plain stupid to hand out your feed like that, whatever the reputation of the company might be. Think of it, if something happens to FeedBurner or you decide to leave the service again a lot of your subscribers would need to update your feed.

You could have done this with Mint as well, without giving a company full controll over your feed.
At 02 June '07 - 09:04 Marco wrote:
@Simon>

I see your concerns. However, I’m using temporary redirects to FeedBurner. This means the original URL to my feed has NOT changed and I can get rid of FeedBurner at any time I want in case I feel the company does wrong things with my feed without losing any of my subscribers.

I can live with it like this!
At 02 June '07 - 09:30 Simon wrote:
Not totally true unfortunetly, as people might add “feeds.feedburner.com/TheNetIsDead”, which is out of your reach.

Apart from all of this I simply hate the design of the button. :P It’s WAY too much 1999. I mean, come on… Pixel fonts… Damn.
At 02 June '07 - 10:01 Marco wrote:
Hmmm true. but if that ever happens I’ll make a last post that will appear in that feed asking those poor souls to update their subscriptions. ALL subscription links, even in the FeedBurner feed itself point to

http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/rss.xml

which is the original unchanged address of my feed. I think I’ll be fairly OK.

I agree about the 80’s nature of the button

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