I must say that this is one of my biggest pet peeves: you go to subscribe to a blogs feed and BLAMO...XML FAILED TO PARSE!
If you really don't give a flying rats ass about your blogs syndication feel free to move along now. If you have no clue what the hell I'm talking about pull up a seat please.
Blog syndication is very important. It may be just as important as actually going to your bookmarked site and commenting on your favorite authors posts (in that the favor will be returned). After all, somebody...somewhere has a blogroll with your name on it. Sometimes this blogroll may be more than just a url linkback, it may be a subscription that they host on their own site (which links back via rss or atom feed). The readers of said site then click the link (that was harvested via some feed reader) and are then referred to your blog.
Now, most blog platforms (ie. Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr, etc) have very good hands off syndication management. But, I often run across feeds (from blogs that are hosted on these very same platforms) that are totally screwed up. Sometimes it's to do with character encoding (rare with the major blog platforms) in which the "XML can not be parsed". Sometimes the feed is just not activated altogether! It's not there at all!
I'm done ranting. And please do not mistake this post for a tech tip. It is a rant.
