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So, if you didn't know already, I use Feedburner for my article feeds. They have a lot of really awesome features and I have been happy with their service thus far. A year or two ago, Google bought Feedburner and provided everyone free upgrades to their 'Pro' package. However, just recently they started migrating the Feedburner accounts to Google. This means your feeds would be associated with your Google account and you could login with the same username/password as you use to get into Gmail or Google Docs.

I signed in last night for the first time in a while and was prompted with a request to go ahead and perform the migration. I didn't see any downside so I went ahead and clicked Yes. The next screen informed me this would take a few minutes and that I would receive an email when it was finished. Sure enough, about five minutes later I got the email. I signed back into Feedburner with my Google account info and everything looked like it was moved successfully. I had roughly the same number of subscribers and all my settings were the same. The only noticeable difference was my account name changed to my Google username.

Pretty cool, everything seemed to be ok - not that I expected anything different from Google. However, I decided to check my RSS Reader before heading off to bed and discovered that every single one of my articles was there waiting for me (I subscribe to my own feed just to make sure that it's working properly). How could this be? Would everyone get all my articles in their reader again like it was brand new? Sure enough, some sites which aggregate my feed into a super-feed were also showing all my of articles.

So to everyone who got ~34 new items in their feed because of me - Sorry. I'm not sure if this is my fault or what happened but I just wanted to forwarn everyone before they upgrade.