I've been dreaming for awhile about useful new features that I could add to my blog. Not just new features, really, more like what a blog could be. How could it be more useful to the reader and to me as the author. A lot of my ideas center around visualizations, and what could be done with data. (Yes, I am a big fan of Tufte.)
I most recently gleaned some good ideas to go along with previous thoughts from Scott Hanselman's blogging tips post.
His post made me finally register and start using del.icio.us. Now after using it for just a little bit, I think its crazy to think I've been saving and juggling links all over the place before. Welcome to Web 1.2, Adam. And they are "open". They don't specifcally have an API, but the content you save there is exposed in a variety of ways making it useful to reuse.
This "openess" has become a very important factor me and how interested I am in using a website.
Anyways, one of the other small steps I made was using FeedBurner for my rss feed. You give them your generated rss url and then they consume it and resyndicate it. This gives you analytics for your rss feed as well as offering plenty of interesting optimization or enhancements for your feeds. Yes, we've stumbled on to another api like manifestation, the FeedFlare Developer Guide.
One of the FeedBurner features has already saved a bit of time and frustration.
After deciding to make the change, I updated my site, checked everything was working, subscribed to my new feed and ran off to the feed management section to see if I would see the subscriber count go from 0 to 1.
Nothing had changed.
I did see this 
FeedMedic thing, though.
Click.
Error getting URL: 400 - Recursive feed redirection error: Are requests for your 'Original Feed' address — the feed that FeedBurner is checking for updates — being redirected to your FeedBurner feed? Make sure your Original Feed is provided from a web address that isn't redirected to FeedBurner.
Ah ha! In good form, and matching item #27 on Hanselman's list, I had added a redirect to my previous rss feed url, but I had not taken into account that the url was also the one in use by FeedBurner to create the feed.
Luckily it was an easy fix, I just created a special url for feedburner to consume, but I thought it was an entertaining bug. Recursion in itself is entertaining.
More enhancements to come.