Feedburner - Advantages?

[Useless]

Super. I am attempting to add RSS feeds to the category pages of one of my link lists just to see if I can get a few hits here and there, as well as some inbound links. I managed to create a small script that will mock up a valid XML feed, but then I sat there wondering how I was supposed to ping anyone. I remebered this thread about FeedBurner and noticed that a few of you use it for your own feeds - and that was my salvation. Let's just hope it was worth the aggravation.