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We're too young for a "best of" post or repost, but I love this discussion. Adding this to a newsletter sounds like an awesome idea.

Eric – NarrowBridge.net said:

An update on this from my world, I was inspired and worked out the permalink change from year/month/postname to just /postname. I used the Dean's Permalink plugin and tested it on smaller sites first to make sure it worked and I kept my traffic.

Now that it is done, I might dig through some of my older posts that had good potential, refresh the content, and bring them back to the front page. With an archive going back to 2008, I have lots of options.

I've noticed more than a few bloggers doing this.  The Redirection tool finds links on my site from carnivals and roundups, so the trend is noticeable.  I've been fixing the outgoing links.

I'm probably stuck with the year/month format having migrated from Blogger.

Got my answer!  PT Money helped me out – apparently RSS doesn't show old articles if you have seen it already in your reader!  So the feed did update.  Woo hoo!

Eric – NarrowBridge.net said:

Is there any way to set the post to have a new time so it goes up on a schedule in the morning?

You should be able to do that just like you would with a new post, and just use a future date/time for the date before you update the post.  Keep in mind though, that since it's already published, any traffic to that post between the time you change the date/time and when it goes live again will get a 404.  That includes search crawlers as well as any human visitors.