"Uncommon uses": a FeedBurner new feature

Seen on TechCrunch first: FeedBurner, which I use for my blogs‘ feeds, has a new feature, called “uncommon uses”, which tracks “suspicious” uses of your feed - that is, not by “normal” feed aggregators. This can be used, for instance, to discover people who are stealing content from you - either creating a blog by aggregating posts from feeds about a particular subject, or even by simply copying your posts - which does happen.

You can then, however, tell FeedBurner about those you know, so they’re not seen by you as potential problems in the future. For instance, for this very blog, Planeta Asterisco was detected as an “uncommon use”, but is now grayed out, as you can see in the screen capture below. I also know what Gregarius is, so I checked it as well.

FeedBurner - Uncommon uses

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