New Feed Features

Those of you who subscribe to our FeedBurner feed, either with a feed reader or by email, may receive a number of our recent posts that you have already read. This is caused by the activation of some new features and should be a one-time occurrence. I think you will agree that the benefits of these new features make up for the rerun posts.

The first new feature, which will appear at the bottom of each feed item, is a link that will open your regular email program to send a feed item to someone else. In the past, if you wanted to email an item from a blog or news feed, you probably had to enter your email address and your friend's email address at a website, exposing both of you to the possibility of additional spam.

If you would like to have these features, you can subscribe to our FeedBurner feed.

The other new feature that will appear at the bottom of each feed item is a link to "Add to del.icio.us," a bookmarking service that we will tell you about in a future post. You may also see additional links if the item has been linked at Technorati or tagged at del.icio.us.

If you do not see the "Email this" and "Add to del.icio.us" links at the bottom of each feed item, you are probably subscribed to our old feed. We will continue to add all new entries to that feed until we move to a new blog server, but you won't get the FeedBurner features. If you would like to have these features, you can subscribe to our FeedBurner feed.