Dave Winer writes a post on why Feedburner is in trouble after being acquired by Google. I never really looked at Google’s acquisition of Feedburner in the same light Dave does and I’m glad he wrote what he did as it is certainly a real eye opener in regards to the level of control Google is “acquiring” on the internet. By the way, Dave is the RSS God. Anyway, here’s quote from Dave that really creeps me out:

“So now someone at Google “owns” Feedburner and all their feeds. And they could, if they wanted to, change the feeds to another format, overnight, without asking anyone.”

So my question is should we begin using Feedburner here on this new site? We’re still in our infancy but if Feedburner is going to cause us problems with our readers in the future - I think its better to fight those problems now rather than when we build up readership in the future. If we choose to ditch Feedburner, all of our RSS subscribers would then have to re-subscribe to our blog’s RSS feed after ditching Feedburner. It could be a mess. So I am asking what readers we do have currently - should we ditch Feedburner now and avoid any problems that may arise in the future?