Burn it!

After a few days of tinkering around*, I’ve finally got the blog burned with Feedburner, the resource for feeds and syndications. To be honest, I only recently got on the RSS bandwagon. For the longest time, I wasn’t very interested in aggregating feeds: I didn’t feel like visiting a handful of sites regularly every day wasn’t so much of a hassle that I needed to subscribe using an aggregator. I also just liked seeing the sights of the web, so to speak, and check out the individual flavors of unique homepages.

RSS is kind of laden with this aura of geeky mystery, that they are too technical for the regular person to use - that’s probably one of the reasons why feed aggregators have not quite gone mainstream. Feeds are starting to show up everywhere though, and without you really knowing it: iGoogle with easy gadgets is an obvious one but even something like Facebook operates almost entirely on the concept of feeds (remember the uproar about the introduction of mini-feeds months ago? Probably not - they’ve become such a natural part of the platform and user experience now.)

I’m slowly coming around to it, though. I’ve personalized my iGoogle page to include feed gadgets of various news sources and blogs. I recently downloaded Google Reader when they announced that feeds could now be read while offline, which is super for my hour-long shuttle commutes to and from work when the shuttle wireless is busted.

Feedburner looks like it has some very robust and flexible offerings for the blogger. I’m not so sure that my little website here is even valuable enough to burn, nevermind subscribe to but hey, it’s here. The little orange chicklet up at the top of the page awaits you!

* by the way, the days of tinkering had nothing to do with the difficulty of setting it up - the set up was totally fast and painless. It was just me being lazy.