Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Feedburner makes it easy to use your own domain for your feed

The first day when the news came out that Google had decided to make Feedburner Pro Stats and "My Brand" available to free users, I switched for the stats of course, but when I clicked on the My Brand tab to make my feed address on my own domain instead of Feedburner's, it said I had to call into Google and talk to them or email them or something--something that I didn't want to be bothered with.
But credit where credit is due. First, after my complaints a few days ago the recent posts did seem to appear on the feed very quickly. And then, tonight I set up the My Brand feature, so the atom feed links that can be used to subscribe to this blog go to a feed that is on the pacificpelican.us domain. So Feedburner has definitely improved in my estimation, despite the probably well-founded and apparently increasing concerns Dave Winer of scripting.com has with the RSS feed service.

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