Is this new? I was subscribed to a blog via Google Reader. And one of the feed item has a black title. Does this mean anything?

screenshot : http://picasaweb.google.com/hjr.photo/GoogleStuffz/photo#5026173467055687890

I've seen that before, it could mean that the feed item doesn't have a link associated with it (is the black title text a link like usual?).

That item has a malformed URL:

http://keznews.com/2210_Workaround_Discovered_For_"Clean_Install"_With_Vista_Upgrade_DVDs

Theoretically, unescaped quotes are not valid characters in URLs and Reader is rejecting it. We're probably being too strict in this case, I'll look into changing our behavior.

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer