Rss feeds can be a little boring. Although you can syndicate your blog’s content you may feel that you are missing out on some of the interactive elements that readers can get directly on your blog.
Feedburner, which I’ve been using for several months now, allows you to manipulate RSS feeds in a number of ways and they are constantly adding new features to the service.
The latest set of features, called feedflare, allows you to add a number of blog features directly into your feed.
You can now show:
- Send a link to your item to someone via email.
- Allow subscribers to email you directly. (If there is no email address in your feed, this will be hidden.)
- Display the number of links to your item from blogs, as measured by Technorati. (If there are no links, this will be hidden.)
- Lists del.icio.us tags for an item. (If there are no tags, this will be hidden.)
- Allows subscribers to bookmark the item with del.icio.us.
- Lists the number of comments posted to an item (for WordPress blogs only).
- Creative Commons license details
If you are subscribed to this blog’s feed you should be able to see the new features 🙂
I dont like the way that links are redirected via feedburner site though. I’m a purist when it comes to URLs from feeds.
Trust you to be awkward 🙂