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The Magic 100

I’ve been writing inkBlots for just over a year now, and this makes my 100th post. A local kindergarten celebrated with me… it was a special moment where we ate cupcakes and talked about phonics, Dora the Explorer, the color wheel, and what those guys at Apple were thinking with the whole “photocasting” mess.

100 posts on inkBlots

After the cupcakes*, I decided to gut my feed infrastructure and move feed hosting to FeedBurner. Why? To save bandwidth and see if it was really all that easy.

Yeah, it really was all that easy. Over the course of an hour I edited a couple of WordPress template files, and then carefully mucked about within the bowels of an .htaccess file. (If you can read this, it worked.) The only real casualty was my Atom 1.0 feed… but if all the redirecting works, and you have a decent reader, you shouldn’t know any different.

So, thanks for reading. And thanks for the kind emails that hit my inbox from time to time. Nice to know you’re out there.

* Okay, okay, the story about cupcakes was completely fabricated. No kindergartners were harmed in the making of this blog… except perhaps for my son and the emotional scarring he must have from hearing Daddy rant about OPML at the dinner table.

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3 Responses to “The Magic 100”

  1. Rob Fay Says:
    February 7th, 2006 at 13:44

    I’ve been thinking about it as well - pretty messy to offer multiple options. Your audience would be savvy enough, but the general user would not.

    I know it’s vain, but the one thing that’s kept me from making the jump is that Feedburner then hijacks the branding (icon) for my site that would normally display in a feed reader - I would just be another flame (don’t mistake that with “flamer”) :)

    On the other hand, if you see your post in a reader, you get options to “email this” and “add to del.icio.us” that is not offered directly from your site…

  2. Rob Fay Says:
    February 7th, 2006 at 13:55

    By the way, congrats on 100 posts!

  3. Mark Woodman Says:
    February 7th, 2006 at 15:27

    As for the feed icon: Yes, the favicon is the feedburner flame… can’t do much about that.

    Good news, though: You can supply your own feed image, which is displayed in readers and on the feed’s HTML view, as shown here:

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/woodman/inkblots

    (Note my pen in the upper right hand corner.)