RSS feed restored

August 31st, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in Technology

I discovered today my RSS feed for this site was down, and it probably has been for a week. That’s because I was messing around with a personal hosted aggregator and foolishly used the feed directory.

It overrode the Feedburner URL and returned an error on the feed address.

I noticed the problem while signing up with Nourish for an email subscription service.

I’ve cancelled the Feedburner email subscription account and transferred the five loyal readers to Nourish. They will now receive a weekly email newsletter, instead of daily. I think that’s a more appropriate frequency for a site like this one.

If you’d like to sign up, use the form in the sidebar or follow this link.

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3 Responses to “RSS feed restored”

delmer Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 6:21 am
I wondered about the 10 unread items in my reader today.
Michael Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I really stuffed that up. It’s like I keep finding new ways to break the blog, but it’s fairly resilient and defeats my efforts.
@mattsurfs Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 am
I am happy to hear you’ve moved your readers over to Nouri.sh. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help! Happy RSS to Email!

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