Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Why use Feedburner
I was asked why I use Feedburner. Is it to take advantage of their stats services, explore monetizing opportunites, or perhaps have yet another online account?
The answer is “simplicity”. It’s far easier to explain and remember feeds.feedburner.com/electricsky than electricsky.net/?feeds=rss2 - and many RSS2 feeds are far more complicated than that… muchmusic.com/events/vjsearch06/podcast/podcast.xml. Also, it is far easier for the Podcast Producer to move his or her source feed to any location on the Internet and change their Feedburner URL to pick up the change, than it is to re-educate subscribers to change their subscriptions.
July 24th, 2006 at 12:09 am
on the other hand, lack of control of your own RSS feed can lead to some pretty serious consequences.
August 25th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
You have control with fb, they just republish, saves you bandwidth Even if your feed goes down for some reason the fb feed is still up.
August 28th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Dave, I respectfully disagree. Your podcast listeners are very often tied to your feed, not your website. If something happens to your feed and you have no way of fixing it because it isn’t on your servers, you can have a big problem (especially if podcasting is a very serious hobby of yours or a profession).
August 29th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
Ahs, but all you would have to do is put the feed on another server, then tell feedburner that is the new source feed. Your listeners would have no idea anything had even happened. Easy peasy, as Austin Powers woud say…