When Good RSS Feeds Go Bad

Somehow, my RSS feeds got mangled, and Feedburner was getting 404 errors when trying to pull my feeds, both posts and comments. For the LJ folks, who make up roughly 80% of my readership, Feedburner grabs posts from my site, re-packages them, and presents the re-packaged posts to the LJ RSS crawler. This allows me to keep track of how many readers I have, and lets me splice in goodies like Del.icio.us links and Flickr photos. I discovered the problem when I went to turn off the Flickr integration so you don’t get inundated with the massive amounts of photos I’ll be posting tomorrow (there’ll be another post about that). It has now been fixed, and the next time the LJ bot visits Feedburner, it should pull this post and probably lots of other posts. You may want to visit my site to catch posts you may have missed.

Posted on December 11th, 2007
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