Race condition

Oi! Blog writers! Yes, you Scoble!

How about you work out roughly how frequently your feed subscribers are snagging your feeds, and make your feeds long enough that there’s overlap? Like a good netizen, I have NetNewsWire set on four-hour refresh, and some blogs (Make, Boing Boing, Scoble. Particularly Scoble) post so much stuff that the feed has churned round completely in way less time than that. result: I miss stuff.

If it carries on like this we’ll start hearing ‘RSS is broken’ stories.

[I’m writing this on the train. Ah, the joys of GNER wifi, power sockets, and quiet carriages]

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