This is why I don’t use feedburner.

August 7th, 2006 | Filed under Blog, Reviews, Technology

No matter how tempting the ego boost would be to know exactly how many people subscribe to this site’s RSS feed, this is why I don’t use feedburner (which is a service that creates, or redistributes your RSS feed).

It’s absolutely essential that the user own the domain that their feed is hosted at, so that, in case of emergency, they can switch to a different hosting service. If they don’t own the domain, it doesn’t matter how many promises the vendor makes, or how well-intentioned they are, an act of god could result in a blackout of a huge portion of the RSS network. Or an act of government.” -Dave Winer

Here is the original post from Steve Rubel that re-spawned Dave’s comment.

Apparently the problem has been solved but that doesn’t renew my faith in someone else having control over the syndication of my content. I’m sure the feedburner people are great, and provide an interesting service…but I don’t like having a company in control of my stuff.