11 Apr 09 RSS Feeds Are Getting Blitzed!
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.
Tags: aims, bloggers, blogs, browser address window, careful consideration, feedblitz, feedburner, growth doesn, left hand side, reliability, reminder, traffic growth
01 Feb 08 Net Sucks… At Least In The US
Just as iTunes announce a new digital movie rental program, Time Warner is looking at metered net pricing over it’s Road Runner cable service.
It’s all about competition of course, and Time Warner don’t want you to download a movie from iTunes when you can pay them to download it from their TV cable service.
I use Comcast, Time Warners main competitor, and if I ever have to call them up, they’re always trying to get me to have more television channels. I keep telling them, I’m not the slightest bit interested in the TV part of your operation, “Give me a faster net pipe!”
Internet provision in the US, where the Internet was born, ranks 24th in terms of speed and reliability, and we pay higher prices too. It’s seven times more expensive here than in Korea, and the Japanese have average speeds over a dozen times faster than the US.
Perhaps if the industry spend time working out how to offer faster service for less money, instead of finding ways to restrict our already underpowered, overpriced service, we might move up that league table.
Tags: cable service, comcast, competitor, faster service, internet provision, itunes, korea, money, program time, reliability, road runner cable, seven times, television channels, time warner, time warners, tv cable
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