Feedburner: What Am I Missing?
Today I had a silly problem with FeedBurner. I had some difficulty subscribing to a couple of blogs. Most of the silliness was mine, although I could point out a flaw or two in FeedBurner’s tech writing.
But the delay caused by my having to puzzle something out before I could subscribe to my first-ever FeedBurner feeds permitted me to entertain what is really an important question, to wit: do I want to use FeedBurner? And I don’t mean as a blogger, but even as a reader of blogs. I’m fundamentally in agreement with Winer on the issue of centralizing a technology whose very purpose is decentralization. I’m not sure I want to buy into it.
But Feedburner seems to have sold a lot of bloggers on the idea that they need no other feed than FB’s. I really want to read some of these blogs, but I’d rather have a choice whether or not to encourage another organization’s effort to port the Dominance Paradigm to the web. Frankly, the more I see this kind of centralization take place, the more I’ll want to buck the trend.