.. the more they stay the same.
To get a feel for RSS subscription levels for smackoo, I decided to roll the feed through feedburner.
I have done this in the past as well, with mixed success. It seems while times have changed, feedburners tendency to be as fast as glacial ice movement has not.
That is not to say the actual feed itself performs badly, oh no, it’s positively sprightly and responds to changes remarkably well.
No.. dear friends, it’s the back-end performance that is still really, really bad. Sure, if you live in the good old US of A ((and a goodly number of you do, at least according to google analytics)) things mightn’t be so bad, as during your waking moments - things seem great.
Sadly, for those of us outside of the US1 it appears that performance degrades when we are awake.
Feedburner is cool - there’s nothing out there quite like it2 and I’m happy to be burning xml for all I’m worth.. I had just hoped the perfomance would be better now..
Oh, one more thing..
Can someone at feedburner inc please fix your del.icio.us splicer? It doesn’t believe my account is valid — I can assure you it quite definitely is.
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Brendan Borlase is a Systems and Network Administrator living in Adelaide, Australia, having lived, worked and breathed Information Technology for over 12 years. Learn more.
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Jul 12th, 2006 at 5:18 am
i was having problems with del.icio.us for a while, if you have any special characters in your bookmarks, it’ll balk at the feed. try running your del.icio.us feed through the feed validator.
Jul 12th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
I usually do.. given import the del.icio.us bookmarks into wordpress so tend to keep an eye on the feed. :)