According to my friend John-Paul at Advanced Business Blogging we can look forward to the delivery of services to help us gather better metrics and meaurements on the performance of our RSS feeds.

John-Paul mentions SyndicateIQ, Pheedo, and FeedBurner as services that are working on RSS solutions for measuring RSS metrics.

FeedBurner is especially useful in providing content publishers with some rather useful metrics for RSS. FeeBurner is like a proxy service for RSS. You "wrap" your regular RSS URL into a FeedBurner named RSS URL (this is called Burning your Feed) and you then marketing that FeedBurner URL.

FeedBurner then checks your RSS feed for you and polls it for updates just like an RSS reader would. I believe the last information I read from FeedBurner is that they check your RSS feed every 30 minutes or ...   more »

On January 18th, 2004 Rok Hrastnik released what I consider to be the best book on RSS to hit the planet.

I'm know I'm bit late on publishing my buzz but I wanted to seek my teeth into all the good stuff first. :) Man, I was not disappointed one bit. This is great stuff!

Rok has done a fantastic job of capturing the state of RSS and how RSS is trending up in use and application. What is so phenomenal is the sheer volume of information that is both easy to follow, easy to understand and practical to apply. This piece of work doesn't just tell you what RSS feeds are it completely explores the whole paradigm-shift to distributed Internet content publishing and the changes that are influencing the increased usage of RSS feed for marketing.

Rok Hrastnik has ...   more »