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Technology Talk - 02/03/2008

Posted by Kyle Eslick on February 3rd, 2008 | Category and Tags | 0 comments

Here is this weeks roundup of quality posts I ran across doing my daily blogosphere browsing:

Firefox Extension Guru has posted Thunderbird 3’s Plans for 2008. I’m glad to see Thunderbird is still proceeding and am looking forward to tabbed e-mails!
Digital Inspiration explains how to transfer a Feedburner feed. This is a new feature Feedburner offers that differs from what I posted about switching feeds. Now you can transfer your feed to someone else’s Feedburner account. This would be useful if you sold your blog or turned it over to someone.
Shankri-La covers how to setup a GmailThis! bookmarklet. This can be used to easily e-mail someone a post using your Gmail account from your web browser.

Measure Your Blog Status With Rating Burner

Posted by Kyle Eslick on February 2nd, 2008 | Category and Tags | 0 comments

Ever wonder how your blog stacks up against other bloggers? There is a new website now available called Rating Burner that came up with a system to ranks blogs by their Feedburner feed subscription count.

While this is kind of a neat site, one problem that I have is that I don’t like that it requires the feed to manually be submitted by users. This means that your feed is only being compared to other bloggers that have taken the time to submit their feeds (or a fan has submitted it for them). Another thing I would like to see is categories be assigned so that you can instead compare yourself to other bloggers in your niche. This would be useful for the blogger, while helping a reader find the most popular blogs in a particular niche that they enjoy.

In looking over the list today, it looks like Hack WordPress should be ranked around 180, while this blog probably won’t be ranked because 2/3rds of my subscribers are still on the old feed.

Where do you rank currently?

How To: Redirect A Feedburner Feed to Another Feedburner Feed

Posted by Kyle Eslick on January 17th, 2008 | Category and Tags | 0 comments

If you decide to switch domains, or just want to use a new Feedburner URL for your feed, there is a way to make the switch while making it as easy as possible for your subscribers to make the transition.

Feedburner has a built in Feedburner redirect that anyone can use with the following easy steps:

Create your new Feedburner feed.
Click the feed you want to delete.
Click Edit Feed Details.
Enter the URL for the new Feedburner feed in the source feed field.
Click Save.
Now Delete this feed and enable 30 day redirection.

This will cause the old feed to show the same content as your new feed for 15 days. For the remaining 15 days your feed will then display a message to your subscribers on your old feed prompting them to now subscribe to the new feed (which it provides).

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