Feral Friday: Getting Feed Burn

Hola kitties! How was your week? It may not have started out too good if you subscribe to Stunning Keisha and received an empty email instead of my blog feed. We're totally sorry about that. We've been sending our emails using Feedburner simply because we've been too lazy/technically challenged to find another platform. Now that Feedburner is discontinuing sending email lists out in July, we've been forced to search for other platforms.

Here's what we discovered. There are still some free platforms to send email subscriptions. Feedio lets you send free to 500 subscribers; if you have more than 500, but less than 1000 subscribers, you can use MailerLite or Convertkit. MailChimp lets you send your list out free to under 2000 subscribers. I'm sure there are many others if you do a google search. We don't have anywhere near 1000 subscribers or even 500 but we wanted to keep sending an email list. Sorry to say it's not going so well. This is where the technically challenged part comes into play. We thought we did everything right setting up the new platform but looking at our blank mailings you can see we didn't. 

We did get some things right like exporting our feed from Feedburner. Here are some instructions. If you have problems, message me and I'll try to help. When you open Feedburner and click your blog name, "Analyze" is the first tab on top.

Finding your RSS feed. You'll need your RSS feed for any of the platforms. Call up your blog and right click on the page. Choose View Source Code. Search  for RSS and, presto, there it is. These are directions for Chrome. Dunno if other browsers are different. If you're on Blogger, you might want to add a jump break in each post then go to your Blogger settings and choose to have your feed stop at your jump break to make it harder on content "curators."

Sorry I can't help you once you choose your new platform or you might be sending empty emails too. Hopefully today's email was right since we broke down and hired someone to set it up for us.

Friendly Fill-Ins

Now it's time to join the Friendly Fill-Ins, a weekly feature held at this time, which is already in progress. Our hosts—15andmeowing and Four Legged Furballs—need no innerductions as they are giants in the cat blogging world. They think up the fill-ins and I fill in the answers. My answers are underlined and in italics. This week my image relates to fill-in number two.

1. _____________ is a non-cat related blog I follow. You might notice I didn't fill this out. I'm having trouble following my fave cat blogs these days, let alone non-cat blogs. TW used to like some political ones but again there's no time to read them now.

2. My favorite place to shop online for cat food and stuff is too numerous to name. There are two or three places we shop for cat food online but you know who they are. No free publicity here. The image shows just one of the places we shop online. I was gonna let TW/Baldy answer this since she found a new shop recently where she's buying head coverings for the summer.

3. Sleeping has been keeping me busy lately. I sleep all the time while TW slaves away on the 'puter trying to figure how we're gonna get my post feed out every week to my couple of subscribers without Feedburner.

4. If I could go back in time, I would tell my younger self stay away from clumsy humans. Monday TW dropped my full dish of stinky goodness ON. MY. BACK. I was scared! I was traumatized! It's not the first time my full dish has been dropped by either peeps but this hit ME. It actually landed upside down on me! When I sit with Pop at breakfast, he's dropped Cheerios on me.

Caturday Art

This is prolly my favorite art piece that I've ever painted. I love the colors. Love how the emerald green eyes pop out on that stunning cat! I should ax Pop if I could paint his walls like this.

Caturday Art is hosted by the lovely Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty and her mum to showcase the latest art by anipal artists using the many different digital apps, Photoshop or original art.