How can I “re-fire” my RSS feed?

You are definitely not making it worse. I am grateful for the help, believe me.

Yes, the new post shows up when you view the whole feed. But the new post was not pushed to my subscribers. The only way someone would get it is if they subscribed after the post was published.

I think the word pushed is what is throwing me off. My understanding and experience with Feedburner “pushing the post” is through an email notification. Am I missing some additional features in Feedburner settings? Can you define your understanding of how Feedburner is “pushing” the post to subscribers? I think that’s where we’re breaking down in our communication. As a subscriber through Feedburner, what notification or “push” should I see?

I’m thinking, based on what I’ve read that, maybe the best solution is as wkeving said:

Wouldn’t an updated name and or permalink, not a whole new post, trigger as a new or updated post for feedburner or feedblitz?

I would think this would be the case…

In response to what you mentioned about doing that Michael:

I am not sure if that would work. Also, if I change my permalink, it would render my Twitter post with the original link obsolete. I don’t think that just changing the title would fire the RSS, but I will investigate.

It would definitely impact your Twitter post, however, you could delete the old Twitter Post and create a new one manually.

I think regardless of how this gets patched up, something gets lost somewhere. That might be the easiest fix…

If you are using an RSS reader like Google Reader, then new posts show up in your reader as they are published. 10,000 of my subscribers get my posts this way. Only about 2,000 get them via email.

I’m using Google Reader and I see the post. I think it’s a Reader issue and not a Feedburner issue. Reader has cached the article from the accidental posting, and now Reader is not “seeing” it as a new post. Let me check on that.

A simple resolution may be a quick post stating the error with a link to the post in question, which will “update” all subscriber’s, giving them opportunity to check out the post.

Here’s a link to Google help on updating/refreshing your feed.
https://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97875
That might help.

Thanks. I think you might be right about that. Of course, it will be cached on all my subscribers readers, too.

The only thing that makes me question that theory is that the email messages weren’t sent either. Regardless, I just went to FeedBlitz and was able to re-send the email. I subscribe to my own blog for testing purposes and just received the email.

This is probably the best I can do, given the fact that I don’t want to lose the 34 or so comments the post has already garnered.

Yep. I think you’re right at this point. Sorry I couldn’t provide a more definitive answer quicker. I did leave comment, tweet about it, and register for the free Heart Mender book on yesterday’s part 1 post. ?? Thanks for your excellent blog. I thoroughly enjoy your wisdom and insight.

Thanks for all your help, Kevin!