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   confused

   

   rss squirrel, Nov 15th, 2005 @ 7:13pm

   
   

   Doesn't the RSS feed originate from the techdirt.com site and data? The thing you describe sounds like your desktop or myyahoo settings are messed up and that has nothing to do with what techdirt puts out from its RSS feed page?
   
   Someone got on to your yahoo account and scrambled the place the feeds point from what you describe.
   
   or maybe I don't understand what you are trying to describe as to what yahoo has to do with techdirt's feed.

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   new form of blog spam?

   

   Jim, Nov 15th, 2005 @ 7:17pm

   
   

   I'm sure this is just a minor glitch, ...

   Is it a minor glitch, or are others creating blogs with with existing names to supply to rss aggregators in hope of hijacking user feeds in order to dole out more spam? Given the degree to which trackbacks are rapidly becoming useless, I think this may be likely.

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   Re: confused

   

   Mike (profile), Nov 15th, 2005 @ 7:18pm

   
   

   No, it's a Yahoo problem. My Yahoo acts as an RSS reader. However, as of a few hours ago, it started mixing up the feeds, so that many feeds are displaying completely different feeds from what they're supposed to be.
   
   The original Techdirt feed is in fine condition. It's Yahoo that's showing the wrong feed.
   
   The word out of Yahoo is that it's a known problem that they're working on (feverishly, I imagine).

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   Re: confused

   

   Happy user, Nov 15th, 2005 @ 8:09pm

   
   

   And because of the partnership between the SBC telephone company and Yahoo.com, this problem affects everyone of their customers who is still using the SBC's default browser homepage... http://dsl.sbc.yahoo.com/

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   MyYahoo?

   

   Spike, Nov 15th, 2005 @ 8:24pm

   
   

   Use the Google personalized Homepage.
   It's great. Much better than MyYahoo.
   TechDirt feed is fine there.

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   Use Bloglines

   

   John Strosnider, Nov 15th, 2005 @ 8:28pm

   
   

   Your RSS feed via Bloglines.com is fine, and, as far as I'm concerned, there is no better way to aggregate RSS feeds than bloglines.com. If you haven't tried it, you should. (And, no I'm not affiliated with them in any way--just a happy user.)

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   Re: MyYahoo?

   

   souljoy, Nov 15th, 2005 @ 8:29pm

   
   

   I agree with you Spike. Since I started using Google's personalized homepage, the feeds are fine there.

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   Re: confused

   

   Edward B., Nov 15th, 2005 @ 9:07pm

   
   

   IIRC, completewasteoftime.com proxied slashdot.org for my personalized Google homepage (www.google.com/ig), probably due to slashdot not liking people to refresh the RSS too often. After a while (I can't remember how many months ago) it stopped updating and I had to remove and re-add Slashdot to my Google home. It sounds like Yahoo was using the same service for techdirt and it's finally died completely.
   
   Ed

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   No Subject Given

   

   Mike (profile), Nov 15th, 2005 @ 9:49pm

   
   

   Heh. Again, everyone, this wasn't a problem with our RSS feed. So, yes, it appeared fine in every other reader out there, including Google/ig and Bloglines (both of which I use as well).
   
   It was a problem with Yahoo, which they've now fixed.

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    Yep, a technical glitch

    

    y employee, Nov 15th, 2005 @ 10:17pm

    
    

    fixed now

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    Re: Yep, a technical glitch

    

    Anonymous Coward, Nov 15th, 2005 @ 11:15pm

    
    

    the question is -- would this error have been fixed as "quickly" as it was, if mike had not written about it on Techdirt? Hmmm, the world may never know.

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    RSS misdirection

    

    Bidera, Nov 16th, 2005 @ 3:28am

    
    

    So it turned out to be a technical glitch after all. But I wonder if less scrupulous sites than Y! can use this to their advantage in the future.

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    Re: MyYahoo?

    

    Etchy, Nov 16th, 2005 @ 7:36am

    
    

    I second that. Google's personalized home page is so much better than Yahoo. Lots more space to work with.

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    Re: MyYahoo?

    

    sydney, Nov 17th, 2005 @ 9:21am

    
    

    my yahoo is the best personal start page period. it's the easiest to use and most reliable.
    
    just launched a new feature, reading filters (under "change layout"), that allows users to hide read items and filter the feeds by update time (show me everything that was posted int he last hour, etc.)
    
    and, mediarss is now supported - all flickr feeds, etc. show up as images on my yahoo...
    
    pretty cool

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    here's the strange thing...

    

    ChristyCritter, May 25th, 2006 @ 10:10am

    
    

    I'm christycritter. Formerly christycritter.blogdrive.com. That would explain where all those odd hits were coming from when I actually still checked that journal. I deleted the whole journal shortly before this was posted, and only found this article because of a Google search on it.
    
    Weird.

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