Burning My Feeds

UPDATE: You can now subscribe to my feed via email. This is a service offering from Feedburner. Sweet!

Flame from Feedburner.comI’ve decided to make the jump and switch to Feedburner after the glowing recommendation from Jeff Atwood. However, being the paranoid sort, I decided to go ahead and pay for the MyBrand PRO feature.

This allows me to keep control over my feed by serving it from my own domain http://feeds.haacked.com/haacked/. Not that I don’t trust FeedBurner, but if I ever want to take my feed back in-house, it’ll be a lot easier for me to change a DNS setting than to wait for them to perform a 301 redirect back to me.

If you’re reading this in your aggregator, my guess is that everything is working fine. If not, please do let me know if you encounter any problems. Flame on!

What others have said

Requesting Gravatar... Simone Mar 08, 2007 7:12 AM
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Cool, I use FeedBurner on my codeclimber.net.nz blog, and I like the stats it provides both for RSS and site views.
Welcome aboard
Requesting Gravatar... Michael K. Campbell Mar 08, 2007 8:15 AM
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feedburner is teh pwnz0r.

I've been using it for quite a while and just LOVE it.
Requesting Gravatar... jayson knight Mar 08, 2007 9:08 AM
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I too will be making the jump over to FB MyBrand around the CS2007 release. Seems like a no-brainer.
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Mar 08, 2007 9:09 AM
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Oh yeah, I can't believe I waited so long. The feature set is quite impressive. Now my blog can support email subscriptions. One less feature to implement in Subtext. ;)
Requesting Gravatar... engtech Mar 08, 2007 3:13 PM
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It is *such* a good service.

The amount of things they give you for free is ridiculous.
Requesting Gravatar... Jake Parrillo Mar 08, 2007 9:42 PM
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Hey There Haacked,

Welcome aboard! Glad you're utilizing our suite of tools. I read your comments about "leaving FeedBurner" and wanted to point you to this post on our blog that explains how easy it is to "leave".

http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/001251.html

There is no lock-in. We want to make sure that you control your experience with FeedBurner.

We love feedback from users, so don't ever hesitate to give us a shout. Thanks for being a customer!

Jake Parrillo
Publisher Services Team
FeedBurner
Requesting Gravatar... Scott Mar 12, 2007 2:40 AM
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Nice, I'm gonna give FB a whirl. But I'm afraid I might lose both my subscribers. We'll see.

FWIW, the Wordpress plugin makes it "Mort" simple to enable FeedBurner. Should look into a SubText plugin for FeedBurner.
Requesting Gravatar... Haacked Mar 12, 2007 3:12 AM
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Hey Scott, Subtext makes it "Mort" simple to enable feedburner. Just enter your feedburner name in the Syndication section of the Admin tool.
Requesting Gravatar... Scott Mar 12, 2007 6:41 AM
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Booyah grandma

booyah!

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