On using FeedBurner with Wordpress...

Quoted: It's official. We've signed adoption papers for the popular WordPress plugin that seamlessly redirects requests for an ordinary feed (from self-hosted WordPress blogs) to your super-powered FeedBurner feed. This plugin — a toddler in age, but a prodigy with HTTP requests — will be made available directly from FeedBurner as "FeedSmith." It was originally raised by the multi-talented Steve Smith, who's trusting us to ensure its continued well-being.

Bloglines now has Google Reader like read tracking.

Quoted: Bloglines, the grandfather of web based RSS readers, launched a new beta site this evening at beta.bloglines.com. Like everyone else these days, the ...

Cool. I'm going to give this a try for some of my mailing lists. You could also use this (along with autodotting) to create dots by email.

Quoted: For now its only feature is a public email-to-RSS gateway: forward your email to slurp@mailbucket.org and have your news reader pick it up at mailbucket.org/slurp.xml (where you choose slurp, having checked that it's not already in use).

This explains why feedburner displays the comment count using an image link.

Quoted: By hardcoding a link to a dynamically generated image, the HTML code remains the same, so aggregators don’t think the item has been updated, while the subscriber sees the dynamically generated values each time the feed is presented. It’s a smart hack.

I'm not sure what 'publicly' listed vs. privately listed means. But some interesting stats nonetheless....

Quoted: There are about 83K publicly listed users on bloglines and they have a combined 2,786,687 feed subscriptions. Roughly 35% of these publicly listed users organize their feeds into folders. On an average there are about 20 feeds per folder. By analyzing this data and combining merging folders that are very similar, we have come up with an automatic way of creating a taxonomy of popular topics and make it easy to find feeds that are most relevant to that topic.

Quoted: I'm afraid to say that consumer RSS Readers are rapidly becoming commodities and will soon be next to worthless - the real business is white label and enterprise solutions. So Newsgator for example is well positioned. And Bloglines and Rojo both got out while the going was still good, via acquisitions. Although it must be said that niche RSS Readers will still have their place - for example FeedDemon (owned by Newsgator) will continue to get an adequate number of subscriptions.

Going to give it a try. Looks interesting.

Quoted: The best way to describe the interface (see screenshot) is…beautiful. Posts are divided up into a two column view with a newspaper look and feel. Max is handling HTML and CSS very well, something I haven’t seen with any other reader and which I debated with a number of feed reader execs in a podcast a few months ago (they said what Max is doing is very difficult/impossible).

Quoted: Which brings us back to subscription. The only win I see in the long run is for the winner of today's attention lottery to earn a subscription (an RSS feed or an email sign up or a podcast subscription) that gives them a chance to be noticed tomorrow as well. Depending on the magic of shuffle for your success is too painful and too unpredictable.

this is a cool idea. chris pirillo's vision is that with a minimum number of keystrokes on a mobile phone you can return results from all the data sources (blue dot, google, etc.) that you care about. the only requirement is that your underlying service support search via rss. in our case, that'd be something like http://bluedot.us/users/mohit/rss/sushi