Comments on: Google Reader Annoyance

By: RM

RM — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:48:54 +0000

I see similar behavior for some blogs with my RSS agregator (SharpReader).

By: kth

kth — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:33:15 +0000

Just a hunch, but the thing James is seeing (like Stormy I've also seen it on Bloglines) may be when a blogger changes his template (or some other blog-wide change), and "republishes" the whole blog. I've often noticed that some blog posts re-appear in Bloglines if the author made even the slightest changes to the original post.

By: Stormy Dragon

Stormy Dragon — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:50:54 +0000

I should note the same behavior is occuring on bloglines.com as well.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:18:08 +0000

Although I don't know for sure, I suspect this issue has something to do with pinging the various blog search utilities, notifying them of new posts. I'm not sure what Google uses to update its Reader, but unless it's told, "Hey! Look over here! I've got a new post up!" it's not going to know about a new post until it does some sort of scan or something. If several posts have gone up since the last scan, then they'll all get picked up together. That's why, back when I was actually still blogging, I used Ping-o-Matic to hit all of the blog search/scan services whenever I posted something new.