I use bloglines for my rss aggregation. On it I subscribe to my own rss feeds to reassure myself that they are reaching the outside world. Since I installed the awtags module my postings have all contained links to their tag entries. This doesn't really bother me, it may encourage people to visit my site if they see useful links in the rss feed.
Bloglines tries to deliver articles that have changed and it appears to do this by comparing the contents of the rss file with its previous contents. If there are any small changes bloglines displays the article in the same way as it does for new articles.
I don't like to hastle people when I edit articles to correct spelling mistakes or whatever so I have altered the drupal ping module to only ping (i.e. tell the outside world) if a new posting is created, not if it is modified. However, bloglines appears to poll my feed and so the slightest change will result in articles appearing as if the are new. Today I assigned some tags to some older articles using awtags and this was suficient for the them to be displayed by blogines as new articles as they were still in the rss feed.
This is the long way of apologising to anyone who thinks I a winding them up by republishing old articles with no noticable changes.
I see I have a new subscribed on bloglines. Welcome, hope you find my whitterings interesting. I am getting more visitors since I started using awtags, especially from technorati.
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