February 25, 2007
I don’t know how many of you subscribe to my RSS feed, but I just changed it. I was using FeedBurner, but then I realized that WordPress lets me create a feed through them, too, and track details about it. Since I never log on to Feedburner anymore, I thought this was a good way to consolidate trips around the tubes/pipes/whatever we’re snarkily calling the Internet now.
So please make note: http://meganblogs.wordpress.com/feed/
If you think this was a bad move, please let me know. I don’t really know too much about the ways of RSS except I subscribe to an assload of feeds.
Nevermind. Lynnster had a really good point. 
Tags: RSS, feeds, Feedburner vs. WordPress
February 26, 2007 at 2:00 am
I actually use both Feedburner and the regular WP feed with mine, partially because some people prefer to use Feedburner, and also because I like the more definitive numbers Feedburner gives me (hence the reason I keep that number counter up on mine, I don’t usually log into Feedburner to look). You can’t turn off the regular RSS feed anyway, and I have sent a feedback request into WP asking if we can have a number counter much like the one Feedburner provides.
There’s two more reasons I keep both feeds going tho - Feedburner has a notifier that will send you a feed bulletin if there’s a problem with your feed, which helped me a bunch on one occasion.
Also there’s the fact that if you a keep a Feedburner feed, no matter what blog platform you might move to, the Feedburner subscribers never have to change anything in their subscription to your feed, all you have to do is log into Feedburner to point it wherever. That’s one reason I keep my Feedburner feed on file with NIT - when I moved from Blogger to WordPress, Brittney didn’t have to change anything RE my feed.
As for the quality of the actual feed itself, I monitored both of mine in my reader as well as most of the other NIT folks who have Feedburner feeds in addition to WP’s regular RSS feed - for the most part, they both hit the reader at the same time, there’s really little difference.
February 26, 2007 at 9:02 am
I’m w/ Lynnster. I’d stick with Feedburner as you can move the feed if (more likely, when) one day you change platforms. Also, Feedburner offers you more statistics about those who subscribe., as well.
February 26, 2007 at 9:09 am
LOL Megan. I didn’t mean for you to have to scratch out everything (though this may well be the post that made me laugh the most all day, ha!)…
February 26, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Nah, it’s cool! I’m glad I got y’all’s advice; I didn’t really understand the benefits of Feedburner, but now I have seen the light.