John Dilbeck And Friends

About two months ago, I was wondering about the following question:

Is Aweber or Feedburner better for syndicating blog posts via email?

I still don’t have a definitive answer to that question, so I may just offer both methods, as well as the obvious RSS feed for anyone who wants to subscribe via a feed reader.

It was on March 1st that I discovered that Google had transitioned all the feeds from Feedburner.com to feedburner.google.com. I learned this by discovering that I had no access to any of my Feedburner feeds or the associated features.

After corresponding several times over the last seven weeks with several support reps, I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I checked in at feedburner.google.com to see if anything had changed.

Instead of the annoying message that I had no feeds, I found a link to login at my old account. When I followed that link, I was able to click another link to migrate my feeds to the new system.

Basically, it turned out that I had one or more feeds with URLs that conflicted and therefore they didn’t transfer any of my feeds.

Last week, I told one of the support reps to go ahead and delete the feeds that conflicted, and that must have been the key to solving the puzzle.

I’m happy to have access to these feeds, once again, and I’ve already deleted three that are no longer in use. In the next day or so, I’ll be looking at all the others and deleting all that are no longer relevant to what I’m doing.

I never suspected that it would take as long as it has to stop using old blogs and to clean up after myself from all the experiments I’ve been doing with blogging and various ways of building websites.

Now, all I have to do is try to remember what I was going to do on March 1st.

I wonder if there will be additional problems because of the migration.

If you subscribe to any of my blogs’ or other sites’ RSS feeds via Feedburner and you encounter any problems, I hope you’ll be kind enough to comment on this post and let me know.

Act on your dream!

JD