RSS feeds! Get your RSS feeds!

As alert readers will probably notice, I’ve been tinkering with the RSS feeds on this site lately. The biggest change is that I’m now hosting the feed at Feedburner. I’ve been testing this service for more than six months and I continue to be impressed. It gives me good stats about readership and allows me to create a single feed that can be used by (just about) any aggregator. If you’re using Thunderbird to view this site, you may need to resubscribe using the new feed. Most people shouldn’t notice a change, however, because I’ve redirected the old feed to the new one.

If you’re the compulsive type, you can skip the redirect and manually point your feed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/EdBott-WindowsandOfficeExpertise. In fact, if you click on that link you’ll see a browser-friendly version of the feed that makes it easy to add this site to common Web-based aggregators like My Yahoo, Bloglines, NewsGator, and My MSN. You’ll also find buttons in the sidebar on this site that let you add the feed to any of those locations.

I’ve also adjusted the feed template to include a link to comments. More than 90% of you who read this site regularly (and thank you very much, by the way), do so exclusively in your RSS reader. By adding a comments link, I hope I can encourage you to post a comment when you want to tell me how stupid I am or how I simply don’t understand the Zen-like clarity of Mac OS X or how I’m an evil tool of either Bill Gates or Satan. That sort of thing. The link is content-neutral, so you can also tell me how much you like my last post, but I expect the other sort of comments to predominate, at least for now.

I’ve also added what I sincerely hope are unobtrusive Amazon ads in every third post. Ignore them if you don’t like them. If you really don’t like them, click the Comments link and tell me how stupid I am and that Steve Jobs would never do this. Or something.

(Thanks to Neil Turner for the improved RSS template.)