My tubes must be clogged…

I think my internet tubes must be clogged…

Based on some good advice from a friend, I’ve decided to include an RSS feed link for this site (it’s hiding in the “Meta” section, which will soon be renamed). After all, every good blogger and technology evangelist uses RSS, so it seemed like a good idea. Additionally, Wordpress provides native support for blog feeds so it was simply a matter of creating a hyperlink.

Somewhere into the process I decided it might be interesting to see if I could outdo myself… Following the popular crowd, I decided to switch my RSS feed over to Feedburner. It’s free, easy to setup and quite powerful. The migration was extremely simple with no complications. Feedburner updates and auto formats the feed every 30 mins or so. It also provides visitor tracking and support for linked media objects such as podcasts. Needless to say, it’s quite impressive.

To test the setup, I added my feed into Google Reader. The first test went well and all of my posts were downloaded from my site. I was a little curious to see how quickly Google Reader updated itself so I created a test post on my main page…

Evidentially, Google Reader didn’t like that very much. While Feedburner updated almost instantly, Google Reader failed to pull any site updates. Instead, I was left with the same previous posts I had before I created the test post. After playing around with both services for a while, I still can’t seem to understand the problem. I have yet to test my RSS feed with another reader but I’m hoping it will work.

At this point I’m not sure if it’s a Feedburner error or just Google Reader but either way, I’m not happy. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication but so far, it hasn’t been really simple… Perhaps my internet tubes are becoming clogged… Maybe I should just write a letter to Ted Stevens and praise him for his stance opposing net neutrality?

On second thought, I would prefer not to be seen defending the ignorant.