Thanks Ravi and Jeff for pointing me in the right direction. I did find the cause of the issue, and it turned out to be an advertisement that TC puts at the end of each post and it rotates between two messages. It's probably (and I'm guessing here) inserted using a Wordpress plugin that updates the content of the post periodically.
It would be nice to be able to filter those updates out, but they look exactly like content updates (because they are), and therefore will create unnecessary load. Oh, well. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Jeff Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps it's not fair to say the *hub* is sensitive to small changes, but > that some publishers may be more update-happy than others. > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Ravi Pinjala <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Most likely this is the same issue I ran into a few weeks ago. First, >> PubSubHubbub only sends the changes to a feed, not the whole feed, so you >> would only see a few updates at a time. Second, the hub is sensitive to even >> small changes such as the number of comments on a story if the feed contains >> that information, so it may seem like it's giving a lot of duplicate updates >> for a few items. >> >> --Ravi >> >> >> Waleed wrote: >> >>> I'm testing out Google hub by subscribing to the TechCrunch feed, >>> which does list "pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" as it's hub. I'm seeing >>> something odd about the notifications I'm getting. There are missing >>> articles, and a couple old articles are being sent again and again. >>> Here is a list of the notifications I received listing the post titles >>> in each one: >>> >>> >>> 11-12 04:38PM: (first notification from the hub) >>> title = "Facebook VP Leaves A Lover Letter For Apple", >>> title = "Incsub Launches WP Plugins; App Store For WordPress >>> Plugins", >>> title = "Reddit Opens Its Homepage To Anyone Willing To Pay >>> (Invites)", >>> >>> 11-12 04:44PM: >>> title = "Myxer Delivers 10 Million Ringtones To iPhone Users", >>> title = "Incsub Launches WP Plugins; App Store For WordPress >>> Plugins", >>> title = "Reddit Opens Its Homepage To Anyone Willing To Pay >>> (Invites)", >>> >>> 11-12 04:54PM: >>> title = "Facebook VP Leaves A Love Letter For Apple", >>> title = "Incsub Launches WP Plugins; App Store For WordPress >>> Plugins", >>> title = "Reddit Opens Its Homepage To Anyone Willing To Pay >>> (Invites)", >>> >>> 11-12 05:01PM: >>> title = "Incsub Launches WP Plugins; App Store For WordPress >>> Plugins", >>> title = "Reddit Opens Its Homepage To Anyone Willing To Pay >>> (Invites)", >>> >>> >>> In comparison, here is the list of titles as I see them when I view >>> the feed at (http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechCrunch) >>> >>> Facebook VP Leaves A Love Letter For Apple >>> The ScamVille Lawsuit: Facebook, MySpace, Zynga And More Face Possible >>> Class Action Suit >>> Should Nintendo Fear The Apple Juggernaut? >>> Pingdom Says People Are Tweeting 27 Million Times A Day >>> Google Announces Acquisition of Gizmo5. They Now Have A Soft Phone For >>> Google Voice >>> Forbes Media Acquires Digital Photo Magazine FlipGloss >>> Flickr Outsources Printing To Snapfish >>> First Rule Of Facebook Connect: You Do Talk About Fight Club >>> MySpace Hires Some Social Smarts From LinkedIn >>> For Charity: Foursquare Looking For Leaderboard Sponsors >>> Crazy ComScore Charts: LinkedIn Shoots Up Past Twitter >>> Vitamin D Turns Your Webcam Into A Virtual Doorman >>> SPDY Gonzales: Google Continues Its Push To Take The Web To Breakneck >>> Speeds >>> Trouble At Twitter: U.S. Visitors Down 8 Percent In October >>> Twitter, Facebook Come To Xbox 360 On Nov. 17 >>> Video: Hands-on With the Chumby One >>> YouTube Succumbs To Branding As Warner Music Begins Its Return >>> No Need To Wrap Your Blog Post In A Tweet, Just Sync It With MySpace >>> That $1.25 Billion Settlement With AMD? It’s About 12 Days Of Revenue >>> For Intel. >>> Google Wave Declutters The Inbox With Following Feature >>> Video: Fox News Takes On Violent Video Games. Again. >>> Cleaning House Before Its IPO Will Cost AOL $200 Million And Up To >>> 1,000 Jobs >>> Reddit Opens Its Homepage To Anyone Willing To Pay (Invites) >>> Incsub Launches WP Plugins; App Store For WordPress Plugins >>> SpotiChart Picks Up Spotify Tweets, Charts Music Trends On The Fly >>> >>> >>> >>> You'll notice that the hub keeps sending two of the old posts with >>> every notification, while skipping some of the new posts. Am I doing >>> something wrong? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Waleed >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > Jeff Lindsay > http://webhooks.org -- Make the web more programmable > http://shdh.org -- A party for hackers and thinkers > http://tigdb.com -- Discover indie games > http://progrium.com -- More interesting things >
