1. How can one reliably compile a feed for an old blog's archive, since the normal RSS feed only contains the last 10 or 20 posts? (See [1] for an old buggy solution using Google Reader.)
2. The Internet Archive should maintain most of the information somewhere, in principle, right? Will the accessibility of old blogs take a large hit when Google Reader shuts down?
3. How can I read through old blog posts in a nice way that allows me to check off what I've read, mark good posts, and browse more easily than by slowly-loading pages which show all the posts in a month? (See [2] and [3] for inconclusive discussion on the Web Apps Stack Exchange. Note: I asked [3] in 2010.)
In my utopia, all closed blogs are eternally associated with a unique RSS or Atom feed that can be dropped into a reader, allowing the user to browse it just like a current blog. Closed blogs are like books, and recommending a closed blog to a friend is as easy as giving them the relevent RSS feed.
Does this already exist?
[1] http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/reconstruct-feeds-history-using-google.html
[2] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/5810/how-can-i-re-read-an-rss-feed-from-the-beginning
[3] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6194/whats-the-best-way-to-read-through-the-archives-of-a-blog