You may have noticed that we now have two feed counters in our sidebar. Why are we changing feeds?
Well LibrariesInteract has been far more successful picking up subscribers in such a short time than we ever imagined. We were going to play around experimenting for a few months and then see how it went, but we already have 70 subscribers to the feed.
The old feed was in a personal feedburner account, and we thought that since this was a group blog, we could better manage our site with a group account - better to do this sooner rather than later if our subscriber count keeps growing this way.
Bloglines subscribers - no need to do anything, we will be claiming our feed in Bloglines and you should automagically be transferred to the new one - let’s see how that goes.
Other subscribers may have to change their feed location manually, but we will not be getting rid of the old one for awhile so you have plenty of time. In fact we’ll keep the old feed live until the feedcounter gets down really low.
So thank-you very much to all our readers.
Let us know what topics you’d like covered and recommend us to your friends.
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July 29, 2006 at 13:15
Ignore this comment - this is just to include some information for the claiming process on Bloglines
July 31, 2006 at 07:22
Having not used feddburner for any of the blogs I’ve been associated with, I’m interested in peoples opinions as to why you would choose to use feedburner?
July 31, 2006 at 12:40
Feedburner has lots of nice goodies for publicizing and optimizing feeds.
*free statistics for the feed (including clickthroughs, number of subscibers.
*optimizes the feed for compatibility with various applications (atom, rss 1.0, rss 2.0….)
*chicklets, flares (we can put value adds, like “add this to del.ici.ous, email this post, etc.” into the feed itself, rather than rely on our readers having aggregators with these features built in.
*headline animators - see the sidebar on http://inn0vate.blogspot.com. The email one can be added to html email applications as a signature.
*it also applies an xsl stylesheet to the feed, for those people who don’t know what to do when they get a page of raw xml. They can quickly click on a “subscribe with” button.
*For those who don’t GET rss, Feedburner also offers a receive by email option - but we haven’t used that.
*It also offers feed to html for publishers who want to resyndicate feeds on web pages - provides a javascript snippet.