Syndication, RSS, Atom, And All That
I've decided to utilise a free service called FeedBurner to look after my site's feed. I'm not exactly a pioneer in this regard - it's fairly popular. But if you're actually reading this through your feed reader, you might like to unsubscribe to my previous Atom feed, and re-subscribe through FeedBurner. Everything you need to know below.
If you don't, this counter won't include you :-(
Now, if you're asking what any of that meant, you're not alone. And actually you really don't need to know what any of it means. I personally get by just fine without using other peoples' site feeds because I prefer to visit their websites. People format their posts to look good on their website, and it may or may not (probably not, actually) also look nice in the syndicated page.
If you do want to find out what it all means, you can start with the FeedBurner explanation. Or the Wikipedia's entry on Web Syndication. Or the search engine of your choice. I use Google. And here's what the guy at 43 Folders had to say when he did the same thing.
So, the site feed address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/thinkingstuff
You can also click:
Subscribe to Sharky's Trading Diary
Or you can click on this little picture:

Or you can click on any of these to load the feed into that particular feed reader service:
Enjoy!


2 Comments:
Actually, you can set things up so that people use your origianl feed's URL (which you control) but are automatically redirected to FeedBurner. That way if you decide to leave FeedBurner or they go belly up you'll still be in control of your readers. Their forums and blog have the details on this
Yeah, the 301 redirect thingy. It's in the to do list :-)
Although I hadn't thought as far as if FB shuts its doors...
Cheers.
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