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The only real frustration I’ve had since switching to Wordpress has been with feedburner. The disadvantage of not actually writing static files to disk is that it’s very difficult to validate each and every address that will get you to a particular feed. And of course I want feedburner to access one particular spot to slurp my feed and to declare the feedburner location in my headers so that no one else does. The worst part is that although there are at least 3 plugins that are supposed to deal with this and at least 6 detailed pages full of instructions on the web, nothing seems to have worked… but nevertheless, it does in fact seem to work, at least for the moment (it didn’t over the weekend).

So - now that comments are working on this blog again (thanks, WP!), if you (dear reader) could let me know if my feeds seem to be working for you (and at what address) I would very much appreciate it.

Google has bought Feedburner for $100M, according to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch. This deal has been rumoured for a while, but apparently now it’s a done deal.

I’m a Feedburner user, but frankly I have no real opinion about this news. I don’t think Google can change a lot about the terms of service - I doubt they could block feed-ads from other services, for example - so the move will likely go mostly unnoticed by users except for the superior integration we’ll see with Google’s other services for web publishers. Time will tell…

FeedBurner for a bit. Not sure yet as to the extent of the service, but I think offloading the details of this stuff is a good idea. And the stuff they’re working on with Flickr seems very interesting. Extremely interesting, in fact.