The big problem is for podcasts your listeners have subscribed to in iTunes. After a while, if a listener stops listening to your podcast, iTunes stops updating it. Now, I believe iTunes is smart enough to not do this if the user has listened to all your episodes, but if they ignore your last episode they might not do so.

The lesser problem for bloggers, or anyone with an RSS feed, is only seen in NetNewsWire as far is I know. However, since NNW either is or should be the most popular RSS reader out there, this is still something to think about. In NNW, there is the concept of a Dinosaur feed. These are feeds that have not been updated in a number of days.

These feeds, aside from Connor P's and iEye, are now gone from my NNW. This illustrates the danger of letting your feed go stale.

To avoid this is easy, just set yourself a schedule. Mine happens to be every Sunday, and I use Things to set a repeating task for that. It's also important to follow a schedule, don't just set it and forget it. Even if your post is just writing about the first thing you think about after you see your schedule, write about that. After all, that's what a blog is for, right?

Now before you read too much into that, I will take my leave. Don't forget, however: if you have a blog, set yourself a schedule. A repeating event with an alarm in iCal will do nicely.

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