orca physical chemistry?

August 29, 2007 at 8:25 am | | literature, software, wild web

My ACS feeds sometimes screw up and send me RSS articles for the wrong journal. Does this happen to anybody else? Sometimes I don’t notice for several articles that I’m reading titles from Inorganic Chemistry instead of JACS.

Sometimes it’s more obvious:

killer_whale_jpca.jpg

I was pretty impressed at first, when I thought someone got a paper on Killer Whales into JPCA!

[Update: ACS claims to have fixed their feeds. I haven’t had a problem since.]

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  1. Yeah this happens a lot to me too. Really annoying.

    Comment by blah blah blah — August 30, 2007 #

  2. I wrote to ACS; I’ll let you know the response!

    Comment by sam — August 31, 2007 #

  3. […] orca physical chemistry? My ACS feeds sometimes screw up and send me RSS articles for the wrong journal. Does this happen to anybody else? Sometimes I don?t notice for several articles that I?m reading titles from Inorganic Chemistry instead of JACS. … […]

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  4. ACS claims that it is Google Reader’s fault. I’ll contact Google…

    Comment by sam — September 11, 2007 #

  5. […] laughed out loud when I read that on my RSS reader. (Which, by the way, still gives me the wrong ACS feeds. I still don’t know what causes that: ACS says that it’s Google’s fault; Google […]

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  6. OK, it’s not just Google. Egon Willighagen has the same problem with Akregator. He blogged about it at chem-bla-ics.

    Comment by sam — September 16, 2007 #

  7. ACS tells me that they are looking at their RSS code for the error. Until they know the error, there’s no time-frame for fixing it.

    Comment by sam — September 18, 2007 #

  8. Sam, I spoke with a few ACS people Monday evening. Let me know if you do not get response, or satisfying reply :)

    Comment by Egon Willighagen — September 19, 2007 #

  9. New response from ACS:
    “Our developers have deployed in production a new RSS program this Monday. This should resolve the problem you are experiencing. Please
    let me know if Google or other readers are now working well for you.”

    Comment by sam — September 27, 2007 #

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