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RSS Feeds Are Getting Blitzed!

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I don’t get huge traffic here. However, like many bloggers, I’d like to grow it. Whilst I realize that content is king, and traffic growth doesn’t happen overnight, I’m very much feeling that Feedburner’s somewhat erratic performance isn’t helping to acheive my aims here.

So, after some careful consideration, and research, I’m switching over to FeedBlitz.

They appear to offer more services, and from what I gather from other users, better reliability.

So, to that end, I’ve shut off the links here to Feedburner.

If all goes well I shall be doing this on all the blogs I maintain and administer over the next couple of months.

If you’re reading this via the feed, you’ll still get this for the next 30 days. In about 15 days, you’ll get a reminder that the feed is closing, and the easiest way to change to the new FeedBlitz feed is to simply unsubscribe from the current feed in your reader, and resubscribe with the RSS link in your browser address window, or the little RSS FEED icon, on the left hand side.

If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line, a tweet, a comment on friendfeed, or a comment on this post.

Software Freedom Day

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Many folks think of Free and/or Open Source Software (FOSS) as simply being cost-free. While this is usually the case,  the more important aspect of FOSS is that it is free to update, revise, improve, re-write. Open Source means that the source code is open for perusal to anyone that is interested.

Open source leads to open formats too. Think of some well-known closed source word processing software for example. Cast your mind back a few years if you can,  and think about some of the earlier releases of word processing software. If you or someone you know had written documents using that software back then, are you able to open them,  read them, and edit them at the present time? Perhaps you can, perhaps not. This is another reason for Open Source.

 

You can find out much more about FOSS and the aims of Software Freedom Day, but checking out this website: http://softwarefreedomday.org/