Administrative note: Email Updates and the RSS Feeds

It seems that Google has finally let a major part of its FeedBurner acquisition die off. It had been working for the most part for several months, but the email notifications have finally gone bye-bye. That had an impact here as I’d been using FeedBurner for both RSS syndication and for email updates to those who had subscribed.

I noticed the change on Sunday evening and promptly moved to a new service powered by FeedPress. With this new service,  all RSS subscriptions should be automatically redirected. So if you were signed up for the new post RSS feed or the comments RSS feed, hopefully you won’t have been impacted at all. Both are showing up correctly in my reader.

Unfortunately, if you had subscribed to email notification of new posts, that functionality is now dead on FeedBurner, and there’s no automatic redirect to the new service. You’ll need to sign yourself up for the new email newsletter. It’s simple enough, just look for this box in the right-hand column of the blog:

(This is a screen capture of what the email subscription box looks like, it doesn’t actually function.)

The new email basically works like the old one, where you’ll only get an email when there is a new post here.

Let me know if you are experiencing any difficulties with these features.