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228, 332, 440 – Anyone Else Getting This?

I mentioned earlier in the week that I’d seen my RSS subscriber figures for kenmc.com shoot a little abnormally on from Tuesday (228) into Wednesday (332). But now, looking at the FeedBurner chicklet this morning they’ve risen again to 440? That’s almost double the amount of subscribers in 3 days. Is anyone else experiencing strange…

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Free The Feeds!

Happy days. Something for the greater good of stats fans was bound to come out of Google’s purchase of FeedBurner and they’ve announced that the Pro version of FeedBurner (Total Stats) and the MyBrand packages (feeds branded by your own domain) are now available… for FREE. Certainly gives me something new to dip into this…

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I’m On An RSS Diet

At the weekend I did something I’ve been threatening to do for a long time – move all my RSS feeds (live bookmarks) from my Firefox bookmark toolbar into Google Reader. Now, I don’t know whats going on in the world. Or if I do I’m about three days behind in the times. I figure…

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Good Lord – Might Google Buy FeedBurner?

Back in the day (what, 2005 maybe?) when I started using FeedBurner there was talk of being able to integrate AdSense into your RSS feed. Then FeedBurner went along and launched the FAN (FeedBurner Ad Network) which would allow you to run CPM ads on your RSS feed, integrating them with your blog content as…

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I’ve Adopted FeedSmith – It Helps

A few days ago I installed the FeedSmith plugin, now under FeedBurner management and its been a help. FeedBurner stats showing an additional 40 readers or so, now edging that bit closer to the 200 mark. Installation is a breeze Upload FeedSmith plugin to your plugin directory Activate it in WordPress Enter your FeedBurner URL…

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Quick Way To Combine Multiple RSS Feeds

I’ve recently (as in Thursday / Friday) added staff blogs for KilkennyMusic.com (Mine, Alan Dawson, Ross Costigan, Michael Keogh) driven by WordPress MU and needed a quick and easy way to combine RSS feeds from all blogs (all using FeedBurner) and port them to the homepage and each of the individual pages on KilkennyMusic.com. If…

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Delivering Gigs Via RSS

Launched the Kilkenny Gigs feed today, drawing the gig listings out of KilkennyMusic.com. If you’re ever hitting Kilkenny for a weekend and want to see whats going on, check the Kilkenny Gigs Feed (through FeedBurner) or stop by KilkennyMusic.com. The feed is handy enough, simply outputs the band’s name, venue name and date and links…

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Business Uses Of RSS

If you’re around Cork on Monday evening next, IT@Cork (of which Tom Raftery is involved) is holding an evening on the “business uses of RSS” down in the NSC (National Software Centre). Fergus Burns (Nooked), Elain Lucey (CSO), Rob Burke and Dave Northey (both Microsoft) will be speaking on the night. Kick off is 6pm…

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Bloglines for Newbies

Firefox is quite comfortable in handling RSS feeds for myself but even on my office computer (not counting my home set up) I’ve over 80 blogs feeding in, with different ones again set up at home and its starting to get tricky to manage them all – so whats an online solution? Bloglines. As an…

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Feedburner resorting to SPAM?

Feedburner. They’re great. Can’t say that I have a single complaint about them todate. I can geo-tag my feed, I’ve subscriptions coming through FeedBlitz, I can organise my RSS feeds into one standard type – and so the list goes on. But with all of this, emails are starting to appear around the web looking…

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