OK, after some digging, I've discovered that Feedburner was giving me a variety of problems, not the least of which was disabling any functionality of the Technorati tagging. It was also not updating very efficiently, even after pinging. Therefore, I have made the quick decision to delete that feed and resume regular syndication via the old RSS 2.0 and RSS 1.0 feeds. I truly apologize to anyone who made the transition already on my request. This post is yet another attempt at getting the Technorati tagging plugin to work.

Update 3/10/05: Since publishing this post, I've been contacted by both Dave Sifry of Technorati and Dick Costolo of FeedBurner. Both expressed deep concern about my user experience and have been helpful in trying to sort out my issues. At this point, I'm not going to ask you to switch feeds again, but I want to assure you that FeedBurner provides a quality service that I can safely recommend to those who will find value in its features (particularly the Blogger-using podcasters who can take advantage of SmartCast). Responsiveness always plays a role in my assessment of tech companies and Dick get a big thumbs-up from me. Sadly, the tagging issue remains unresolved, but I'm starting to think the issue is related to either the invalidity of my RSS feed or some problem with my pinging mechanism. Stay tuned...