After reading in a couple of places that FeedBurner was on its way out (here, here, and here), I got severely ticked off. I don't often check my FeedBurner stats often, but that's because it's a set it and forget it type of thing. That was the whole point of using it.
If Google is going to shut off the FeedBurner service, a large majority of blogs will be left without a way to syndicate their blogs to those who subscribed to them via email or an aggregation tool such as Google Reader, and more importantly, those who monetize their blogs won't have that important tracking tool anymore.
I went into all my Blogger blogs and deleted the RSS and email links (and the redirect under the dashboard) I had been using with FeedBurner, which were on my blog's layout on the right-hand side. Then regretted it. I went back into my accounts, and found out there's an email subscription widget you can add to your Blogger layout. Guess what? It's FeedBurner. What are they going to replace this with when they take it offline?
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