What’s up with the strange-looking feeds?
You may have noticed that my feeds have started looking different — an “Email me” and “add to my del.icio.us” button have appeared at the bottom and now daily summaries of my own del.icio.us links have appeared over night. If you go to my blog, none of these things are there.
Well, I’ve started using Feedburner to supply my RSS/Atom feeds. Why is that? Because I noticed that most of my regular readers read my blog via a feed reader and there is no way to track those type of things, etc., within WordPress. I’ve seen quite a few sites lately switch to Feedburner so I decided to at least look at it. At first it seems a little strange, but the sample feeds and stats they give you are compelling. There is an good WordPress plugin that does the dirty work for you, so implementing it was a snap. For the past few days, I can see what feed readers people are using, how many people read each post, etc. Pretty cool stuff.
Last night I messed around with other features for my Feedburner feeds. That’s where the buttons below have come from, as well as some geotagging my posts and also tweaking my feed per reader (meaning that if your reader prefers Atom over RSS, FeedReader will magically give it an Atom feed, and vice-versa). I also added my del.icio.us summaries, since people who read this via feeds miss my list on the front page.
Again, I think this is very cool stuff. I hope you enjoy all the work I do for you guys. 