I read via the feed, and I may be able to help.  (I know PHP and have a working knowledge of RSS, anyway.)

I’ve also noticed that the feed’s body text turns into broken HTML whenever there’s a link with title text that has double-quotes in it.

I also read via the feed, and although I am of absolutely no use to you, I just wanted to say thanks for fixing the feed.  Or at least attempting to fix it.  I can’t click through at work, so I end up missing a lot of good stuff.

I can’t tell if you’re using Wordpress or not…if so, this might help:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Feeds

I also have some knowledge…let me know if I can help.

Yeah, I wanna see the author in the feed, cause that Taylor dude sucks ass, and I really wanna avoid his crap.

What the hell is going on with this spam blocker shit?  Anybody know?

I’ll offer to help too - though it’s not my regular programming language, I have fixed php issues in the past and have created things that made my own RSS feeds at one point.  (It was a convenient way of monitoring some production systems until management at my previous job decided that they needed something more “professional”.)

Just contact me at the email address I’m posting with here.  (m a r t i n -at- s n o w p l o w -dot- o r g)

Jesse - you’re using expression engine, yes?  In your RSS template, I’m guessing that you have something like this now:

<description><![CDATA[{summary}{body}]]></description>

Try changing it to:

<description><![CDATA[
by {author}<br /><br />
{summary}
{body}
{extended}]]></description>

I’m making a guess here, but this help page from ExpressionEngine indicates that you may need to make the following change in themes/site_themes/rss/rss.php:

* “site/index” may need to be replaced with “site/comments”. In EE 1.6.4, this is on lines 43-44.

Also, RSS 2.0 allows for an author tag (actually an email address) for each item. I *think* you can add that by putting something like <author>{email}</author> on line 45.