---
title: "FeedBurner? I like it."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/29/feedburner-i-like-it.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/29/feedburner-i-like-it.html"
published: "2004-05-29T13:31:00"
updated: "2004-05-29T13:31:00"
tags: ["Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "[Update: of course one small caveat is that the refresh rate of the feed is taking a bit. THis post hasn't yet been downloaded using the new feed although is was written about 4 minutes ago. Maybe I'm just impetiant…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# FeedBurner? I like it.

By Roy Osherove May 29, 2004 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 29, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

_\[Update: of course one small caveat is that the refresh rate of the feed is taking a bit. THis post hasn't yet been downloaded using the new feed although is was written about 4 minutes ago. Maybe I'm just impetiant that way huh?\]_

[FeedBurner](http://www.feedburner.com/) seems nice. I've learned about it through [BLTS blog](http://www.netcrucible.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=82b57f79-28e4-4b39-8a07-90a0f91da2b7).

They basically take your RSS feed and add layers on top of it to provide some pretty cool services:

- Formatting the feed to accommodate lots of newsreaders who should know better
- Automatically transform Amazon links in the post into an Amazon Referrer ID link (Let's give this book a try shall we? [Coder To Developer](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/078214327X) by [Mike Gunderloy](http://www.larkware.com/) is a great book)
- beautify and reformat the raw XML feed into browser friendly human readable format with a customizable explanation of what this feed is.
- Read stats
- some more cool stuff....

And it appears free too! so - try this feed on for size. tell me if you like it:

[http://feeds.feedburner.com/Iserializable](http://feeds.feedburner.com/Iserializable)  

 ![](https://osherove.com/img/wb/937a9dd4_www.feedburner.com_fb_images_pub_fbapix.gif)

One important thing I can think of that this service can enable is “follow-me“ subscriptions, in that even if you change blogs of more to different url's people can still subscribe to the same feed, and all the author has to do is change the feed source in the FeedBurner properties page. nice.

## More in Blogging

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- Jun 4, 2004

    ### [2nd Israeli Blogger dinner is a go!](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/4/2nd-israeli-blogger-dinner-is-a-go.html)

- May 27, 2004

    ### [Another Israeli Blogger](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/27/another-israeli-blogger.html)

- May 24, 2004

    ### [\[OT\] Sad joke](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/24/ot-sad-joke.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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