Dave Stanley

"I agree. I referred to the fact that Feedburner stats are unreliable. You might as well remove it from your blog all together. It's just an unreliable number." - Dave Stanley

"I don't get the logic behind doing something like this. It seems to me that this move pollutes the value (whatever is left of it) of Feedburner stats. Those stats are supposed to be tied specifically to people whom subscribe to someones RSS/Atom feed. I might follow someone on FriendFeed for a variety of reasons, one of which might not be that persons blog. FriendFeed evaluating the action of someone following someone else, and making assumptions against that action, introduces a huge grey cloud. This ultimately dillutes the value of the Feedburner stat. The Feedburner stat is tied to 1 thing. Someone subscribing to your blog. It's either true or false. There is a huge cloud of greyness baked into that number now. Not that Feedburner has done a great job of showing reliable data. But you can pretty much kiss goodbye any real understanding of how many people intended to subscribe to your blog. I'm wondering why FriendFeed felt the need to inject themselves into this position? Seems..." - Dave Stanley

"You're correct. If you submit a request from that page I'll get it squared away." - Dave Stanley

"Hi Robin, thanks. To create filters and pull the results into your RSS reader you don't need an account. You can get going right away here http://alpha.shyftr.com/filter.... If you are a publisher and want to offer the filter on your site, to your readers, you can request an invite for a publisher account here: http://alpha.shyftr.com/publish..." - Dave Stanley