Feedburner was purchased by Google. The fact that Feedburner had recently been promoting how to make sure you control the subscriptions to your feeds (rather than Feedburner controlling them), now makes sense - they knew Google was going to purchase them and that some of their customers may not like Google knowing everything about their feeds.

After finding someone with a wordpress.com ripping off the content of this blog, I alerted WordPress and it wasn’t just that they took down the offending content - the whole blog went dead.

The URL you give out for your feed matters. Ideally you want people to subscribe to a URL that’s on your domain, yet you also want to use a service like FeedBurner to make your feed more powerful and track it’s usage. Now you can do both, but it requires a few server configuration tricks…

RSS Feeds are particularly powerful in SEO. The major search engines monitor RSS feeds for new content and putting out a feed for your content can help get it picked up and boost the bottom line results for your site.