You may have noticed that the RSS feed stopped working for you. Or, maybe not.

Those of you who arrived at this page in your web browser, first let me say, “thanks!” Second, you may want to consider using an RSS aggregator, but since you’re not using one at the moment, you can safely skip the rest of this. I won’t be offended, and you probably don’t care.

And now for the rest of you… hopefully, you have a nice, modern RSS reader/aggregator – like NetNewsWire – that followed the redirect auto-magically. If not, or if the redirect worked but you now have 217 new items, please accept my apologies.

Believe it or not, I carefully considered the ramifications of the changes. I wish there was a better way to accomplish my goal. As with all relatively young technologies, however, we’re still suffering from something of a lack of standardization. What was my goal, you ask? Well, mainly to collect (anonymous) statistics via FeedBurner on how many readers are subscribed. I’m also using their SmartFeed service to provide a feed that will work in most readers/aggregators, regardless of whether they’re compliant with RSS or Atom specs.

My calculations suggest that I’ll pick up an additional 0.217 subscribers as a result of this change. Of course, I feel I have sufficient reason to be somewhat skeptical of the calculations, but time will tell, right?