FeedBurner
I’ve just added one of those FeedBurner things to my sidebar. I really have no idea what it is/does because I’ve not read the site yet, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. (If you use one of these and know of any advantages or know what it does, please share!) It looks like this:
Oh, and there’s a slightly different layout up, but most of you have noticed that already.
Edit (26th June): I figured out all of the little details about the feedburner thingy last night. Seems like a good way to feed my ego (get it? feed? aha!) so it can stay up for a while. It’s quite interesting seeing how many hits I’m getting to my feed: way more than I anticipated. Shame the subscriber count only updates once a day. :/
Hope said:
On 25 Jun at 7:17 pm
Was the header image always in lowercase? hmm.
Jem said:
On 25 Jun at 7:20 pm
@Hope: no, I’ve been fiddling with the font (size, shape, case etc).
Katy said:
On 25 Jun at 7:21 pm
it’s just a different way of doing feeds isn’t it?
Shannon said:
On 25 Jun at 9:17 pm
Hmm… I should read the FeedBurner site, too. I’ve never really spent the time it. “You blog because [your reason here] and FeedBurner can help you do that better.” Okay… I shall continue reading!
Daz said:
On 25 Jun at 9:24 pm
I recently went over to this. I only really use it to see how many readers I have (4 – yey!). One thing I did do was edit my .htaccess file so that people who request my old feed were “sent” to the feedburner version (oblivious to any change)…
Anne said:
On 25 Jun at 9:46 pm
Woohoo! /me likes the new look. (I tried that Feedburner thing for a while and I still don’t know what it does.)
Aneesah said:
On 26 Jun at 5:04 am
I think feedburner is a online RSS reader service … thing, right? ^^ I know some podcasts use it for people to subscribe to. I like these blue shades a lot, desaturated blues are awesome. I don’t know about the maroon links, though. :P
Jim said:
On 26 Jun at 8:44 am
It let’s you keep up with how many subscribers you have as well as many other subscriber related stats, e.g., how many joined this month, day, etc.
Chans said:
On 26 Jun at 11:45 am
Isn’t it a subscriber counter to let you see how many subscribers you have through feeds. As well as other stats you can look up.
Claire said:
On 26 Jun at 8:38 pm
Excuse me while I declare ignorance on the FeedBurner malarky, but I just wanted to say that I very much prefer the header in lower-case – definitely a “keeper” IMHO ;)
Robbie said:
On 27 Jun at 6:01 am
I don’t really see the point of the counter but it has a cool name so it works. xD I really hope I’m not the only one who cracked up at the feed ego joke.
Julie said:
On 27 Jun at 4:46 pm
Have fun: http://tutsrock.net/, http://whateverlife.com/tutorials.php
Shannon said:
On 27 Jun at 8:54 pm
Yesterday it was [4 readers] and now it’s [65 readers].
Jem said:
On 27 Jun at 9:48 pm
@Shannon: that’s because I’m ace ;D
Viitoria said:
On 30 Jun at 12:49 am
Oh dear…it looks like it’s going down :( I never could work out anything about feeds. Of course, not trying may have something to do with it…