I was amused by Brent Simmons’ republishing of Brian Reischl’s Stupid Feed Tricks
Brian is intimately acquainted with the different ways feeds can be screwed up. So he posted Stupid Feed Tricks on Google Docs.
I quote the entire thing below for people like me who don’t have Google accounts. The below is all by Brian:
… Putting a tiny number of posts in the feed (sometimes just one). These types then usually publish 10 articles in the space of two minutes, and wonder why you’re missing 9 of them. …
Now ponder scaling these issues up to (tens?, hundreds?) millions of feeds and users and you can see the challenge facing anyone providing a Google scale feed synch ecosystem.
Also, don’t miss Brent’s favorite way to screw up a feed. Really, hotel connectivity needs to die a horrible death at the hands of 4G and LTE. Conference provisioning is “only” way overpriced. Lodger oriented is overpriced and busted.
Ahhh the wonders of the Web. Thankfully, it’s the least worst, global, open, networked, hypermedia system we have.