Reply via Email
While I don’t blog nearly as often as I used to and while I removed comments from my site a few years back due to lack of use and the constant barrage of spam, it is nice to hear from people that either have something nice to say, have a helpful critique, or want to have a dialogue on an interesting topic. As others have done, I’ve added a “Reply via email” mailto link at the bottom of...
Feed Subscriber Rates
Google appears to be the new champ when it comes to feedreaders. Bloglines for a long time had been my number one feedreader. It got bumped off the block by Netvibes, although they've both held fairly steadily. However, with Google now broadcasting subscriber totals, it seems they have a 50% lead over either. Happy days for me as I'd been itching to hit the 5000 mark, only to wake up today to ...
Add a Logo to your Feed
Many complain that RSS and Atom have taken away the possibility to maintain your personal brand. For the most part, that's true. With so many people consuming content via RSS, I'm surprised anyone even knows who writes this stuff anymore. Many of the feed readers out there will snarf up your favicon, so at the very least, you should try to have one of those in place. You can also add a path to a...
FeedBurner Konfabulator Widget
Update: I've just added a quick addition. There's now a new icon next to the change id (aka search) icon. A click of the arrow icon should send you to the FeedBurner home page. Also, I've created a permanent page for the widget. All updates will be available there. On a request, I put together a really quick Konfabulator widget that displays your circulation number. This is v0.1 material, that's ...