[Sage] FeedBurner and Sage

[Ben Branders]

Bob Kelly wrote:
> I realize this is the dev list and I've been lurking for only a week,
> but has anyone noticed that lots of RSS links are just pointing to
> feedburner.com <http://feedburner.com>? 

Feedburner is a service to optimize feeds in some way and to view how many
subscribers (and readers) you have. They read the feed from your site and
make some changes to it.

> Here's an example:
> Pharyngula's blog (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ ) points to
> Feedburner: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/scienceblogs/pharyngula
> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/scienceblogs/pharyngula>). Which is just
> another html page.

That's not another HTML-page, it is XML (look at the source). The XML is
parsed however, so it looks like a normal page, but it IS a feed.

> There seems to be no option to get the raw XML in any way, shape or form.

View source.

> Am I on drugs and not seeing it?

Your on drugs. :-)

If you're using a weblog, Feedburner can give you some really good
information on how many times a day your feed is loaded with what
newsreader. You could compare it to Webstats for HTML-pages...



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