Evidently someone from Feedburner read my post about my feed problems earlier and then left me a note when I solved it and offered assistance with any future problems. All this without me even asking Feedburner for help officially! That’s pretty cool. I salute you, kind sir!
I’ve heard some people bash Feedburner in the past, most notably Todd Cochrane from Geek News Central. He contends that you should never entrust your feed with a third party. Maybe he has a point if you’re an uber-geek and know all about managing and creating RSS feeds on your own, but for a guy like me, Feedburner is vital. Think about it: I just completely changed blogging platforms and was able to seemlessly maintain the RSS feed I’ve always used so most subscribers wouldn’t even know the difference. This is the equivalent of being able to change cell phone companies but still keep your same number. By using Feedburner, I didn’t have to call a million people and let them know I changed my number, so to speak (even though I actually only have 14 subscribers as of the time of this post, you get the picture). Hey, if it’s good enough for Mike Arrington, who now has over 100k subscribers, it’s good enough for me.
I’m so glad I started using Feedburner right from the time I started blogging last year, even though at the time I didn’t really know how it would be useful for me. I think originally I just wanted to put a cool little RSS chicklet on my site. How fortuitous that it ended up helping me out big time.
