Social Media Globetrotter

Yesterday I downloaded the new Disqus plugin for wordpress, everything was fine, comments were showing up and I was happy.  My blog is syndicated on a few places, alltop.com being one of them.  I checked alltop.com to see where my blog was ranking and then realized that it was nowhere to be found.  I e-mailed Guy Kawasaki and he explained that my RSS feed was no longer valid.  Now I should point out that I’m not a very technical person so when these bugs come up, it’s actually quite hard to deal with them.  I  went to http://feedvalidator.org several times and tried to figure out what the possible problem could be.  To be honest I had no idea what I was looking for. This is the error I was receiving:

Underneath one of the errors I saw the word “disqus,” so I took a chance and went to remove the Disqus wordpress plugin, shortly afterwards the problem was fixed.  I’m not saying this is the only possible solution but if you are using feedburner and disqus, you might experience a similar issue and the disqus plugin is the likely culprit.

Hope disqus already knows about this issue and is working to fix it.  If you know of an alternative fix that let’s you use the disqus plugin I would like to hear about it!

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