Honey, and by honey I mean Livejournal, which is a bit worrying—but anyway: honey, I broke the feed. I didn’t mean to: for some reason it was choking on the alt tag of one of the images in a post from early last month. Livejournal thus hasn’t seen anything from this feed for about four weeks, and now that I hope I’ve unclogged it I don’t know how it will deal with those backdated entries. So this is a heads-up to warn those reading this through the feed that you may have missed some stuff:
- the fifth in the feudal transformations series, pondering this time on an old but important paper by an old but important archaeologist
- a New Year shout-out to some readers and a scholar who sent me offprints from afar
- a rant about the language in which some theorists hide their concepts
- a mystery of a lost book, with a pretty monastery to distract you
- some stories about a scheming bishop whom I kind of respect
- the latest news on where the cool papers are being read (and only one of them is mine)
and
So that should bring you back up to date. I’d promise not to break it again but I don’t know how it broke. So, er, good luck with that.
(WordPress just introduced a new way to track readership through feeds, you see, and I suddenly found I had none. That seemed odd, so I investigated. Ah, tech. I do wish I got to make my living at what I’m good at instead.)
A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe 
A good reason to keep an eye on those stats. How did you know it was Livejournal and not other feeds like Google Reader?
Missing step in my explanation there I think! I know I’m gatewayed to Livejournal, so I could look there and see what was getting through. When I found it was `nothing’, I loaded up the WordPress feed (which you do by merely sticking ‘/feed/’ after your normal blog URL) and it had an error message with a quoted line that it was failing on, and no content. So then I messed with the offending line and eventually just deleted it; after which, feed as normal again.
And indeed Livejournal is now listing the missing posts, but as I don’t have an LJ through which to read these, I don’t know where in people’s friends lists they might turn up; if it’s organised by datestamp, well below what they think they haven’t read, I guess. It is a problem with LJ generally that it doesn’t track read and unread as Usenet does. So I thought my loyal readers there, all three of them, needed a heads-up :-)
The whole feed stuff is still a mystery to me. I know there is a LJ feed for my blog (I have LJ account I don’t use except for commenting), but I get readers via other feeds as well. Probably Google and RSS.
Well, as long as people read my blog, I don’t care how they find it. :)