One of the many troubles with RSS readers is they have the bad habit of catching and remembering early drafts of your posts. Case in point, a post at economist Greg Mankiw’s blog. Three rapid-fire successive versions of a post touting a reader converting to Mankiw’s fiscal libertarian views have entertaining differences in their titles, as captured by Google Reader:
First we had the undoubtedly uncomfortably Bush-ish “Mission Accomplished”, which was quickly replaced by the somewhat misleading “Making Milton Proud”, before finally ending with the quietly confident “Another Convert”.
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Weirdly, I just subscribed to Greg’s blog in Google Reader and the ten posts that it loaded included all of the renamings you list above. Which means that his current RSS feed (as of right now) still has those old entries, as opposed to your reader having pulled them in over time. Or maybe Google Reader had cached the entries. Either way, you’d think that the Blogger folks would be working with the Google Reader folks on this stuff…