@Paul – That’s really strange, because the repromoted posts are in the feed (and they show up in mine). See here
http://feeds.feedburner.com/EarlyRetirementExtreme to check. Which RSS reader are you using? Maybe there’s a setting in there that needs to be changed?

@Canadian Dream – I take it you started one to publish your book? It has an ISBN, it’s not quite edited. Createspace will run it. It’ll go up as soon as it’s done. I’m not doing a coordinated launch. Some day in the near future, you’ll see it announced on the front page here.

I’m getting all the posts – old and new. I still love to read a new post, but the forum is a good proxy. The topics and discussion there have also exceeded my expectations.

@Spork – I “googled” for an answer. It seems the this is a known problem with Google Reader. It will not update the date for a post which is already in the feed. I deduce that this will be a problem for any RSS reader with a similar philosophy.

Feedly (firefox plugin) works pretty well yet it derives through google (as far as I can tell).

Jacob, I think you could refresh the blog topics by becoming a little more *gasp* commercial:

For example, the only consumerism you espouse is “consuming” (investing in) durable goods which will last a lifetime, or that will at least hold their value. Why not do an entire–perhaps short–post about a particular product, such as the Norwegian everlasting shoes/boots or whatever, the tools you’re obsessed with, with nice big pictures?

The guest posts have been interesting, but perhaps you could put a little more of a stamp of your persona on future ones by, for example, interviewing or profiling aspiring as well as accomplished EREs. This could be in the form of a Q&A (text or audio or video) or just plain old prose reportage.

Perhaps with a little research you could find some educational institutions at the 6-12 or college/trade school level that put into practice “real world education” such as you’ve described–everyday financial and budget skills, fixing and building things, sustainability, etc. They could get some exposure via your blog; you could make some connections with people practicing something akin to your philosophy.

Live Bookmarks is showing old and new posts, checked using the Feed Sidebar add-on for Firefox. I like getting the old ones, because occasionally I don’t recognize one as having read it previously (bad memory, unmemorable post, and/or I didn’t start reading until about 6 months after ERE blog started). ;-\

Jacob,

We all started reading because you always kept your ideas original, well thought out, and interesting on subjects we all hold dear. Please keep posting original info when it comes to you, but I can imagine the hassle of feeling like you have to (or repeating yourself). The old is great too, especially for people who have not gone through the past blogs.

Sounds like you’ve got your whole plan visualized. Great work!

@Jacob: asimplelife has a point. There’s no way tell that it’s an old post. Nobody reads the fine print (which says “originally posted on”). The other day when you said you were doing reposts, I thought, really? where are they?! It’s only now I understand. It may be a good marketing trick though to not say it’s old stuff, as most visitors consider old stuff obsolete and irrelevant (righteously so if your info diet is mainstream media).

In any case, I like the repostings. Some may disagree but I much prefer old but excellent posts on ERE to the rambling philosophical posts that came after. If something is good, it’s worth rereading. Not once, but every year or so.

To continue my earlier point, is it a coincidence that the posts are no longer showing a date? If you were doing this for the strategic reason I mentioned earlier, I have to say it’s brilliant, haha!

And again, as I said I don’t object. Timeless content is timeless.

Jacob, seems like we posted simultaneously.
And yes, I have noticed (with suprise/wonder) that your philosophical posts are hugely popular here. Seems like you have 2 bloggers in you. Some (like me) love blogger 1, others love blogger 2. We probably each love what is novel to us (either posts from blogger 1 or 2 or both).

@Jacob, is book #1 more philosophical/theoretical or how-to?

Nah, you’re not a bad blogger 😉 Congrats on having the drawing power to have a self-sustaining community and forums, and kudos to you for focusing your energy where you feel it is most effective, rather than continually rewriting old posts.