site administrivia: duplicate postings in RSS feed

Thanks to a pointer from Paul R. Pival I activated a new feature that gives me unified FeedBurner stats for my TypePad blog.  This means I get to see all my subscribers, rather than just the ones I was capturing in the FeedBurner feed.  This is what the result looks like in my stats:

In other words, I'm now tracking an additional 180 or so subscribers.  (UPDATE 2006-06-10: Just to make it clear, all this means is that 180 existing, untracked TypePad feed subscribers were added to my FeedBurner feed - the total number of subscribers didn't increase, it's just they weren't all counted inside of FeedBurner before.)  Anyway, right now it also means there are duplicate postings in my feed.  I am going to see if that sorts itself out.

Now that this feature is active, I am also probably going to switch back to TypePad Basic from Pro, since the only reason to go Pro was to direct more people to the FeedBurner feed.  You shouldn't notice any difference to the site appearance or the feed.

There's more info at

• Everything Typepad - Connect your TypePad feed to FeedBurner
• Burning Questions - Your FeedBurner Feed is in My TypePad Blog!

UPDATE: Here's what I sent in response to Joe Kottke's comment

If I look at the raw feed itself it looks fine

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScienceLibraryPad

but if I preview in Bloglines (where the vast majority of my readers are) there are duplicates - maybe because the timestamps don't match on postings?

http://www.bloglines.com/preview?siteid=899708

UPDATE 2006-06-10: FeedBurner has discovered another 41 subscribers

Comments

[Joe Kottke]

Richard, are you seeing the duplicate items in your feed reader only? Have you check the FeedBurner feed in just a browser? It is highly possible that your feed reader is just marking the items as new (and therefor re-showing them) because the burned feed changes a bit when connected up with the new TypePad integration. So it may just be your reader that is interpreting the items as new.

Feel free to contact me if you continue to see funkiness in your feed.
Regards,
Joe

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Joe Kottke
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