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And just as mysteriously as it broke, Google Reader is now picking up all my posts from the Atom feed. This could be the result of anything from my upgrade fo MT 4.23 (Grrr!), my whining to friends who work for Google, or just random software frobbing. Incidentally, this illustrates an annoying feature of RSS-style blog reading: blogs just drop off the radar and the software doesn't always tell you (or even know, if there's some bug) that something is hosed, as opposed to authors just not writing anything. So your subscription list just rots.

With the imminent destruction of Bloglines, I'm thinking of switching to Google Reader (I would really prefer to use NNW, but it crashes whenever I start it up on my Mac. Obviously, I could maybe fix this with enough tweaking but it seems like a bad sign.) Anyway, when I added EG to my test Google Reader feed, it seems to be missing about 90% of my posts. That seems troubling whatever RSS reader I happen to use. Obviously, if you're using GR, you may not see this, but if you do, I had posts on October 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 29, 20 21, 23 and 24. What do you see? Actually, I'd be curious if people using any RSS reader saw something different. Also, if you know something about debugging GR and why it might not be picking up all my posts, please contact me, either in comments or at ekr@rtfm.com

UPDATE: The problem seems to only be with the Atom feed. But I'm getting that directly from MT and it looks fine to visual inspection, so that's kind of odd.

Paul Hoffman just alerted me to the fact that comments were getting caught in the spam filter. I've flushed the filter, dialed it down a bit, and will check regularly. That said, if a comment doesn't show up in 24 hours, please complain to me via email.