Doesn't work for funnelweb blogs, but works fine on feedburner feed and Wordpress feed.

feedreadingissue.cs

//just paste this code in LinqPad (having selected Language: C# Program) and try and fix it ;)
void Main()
{
	//demonstrating linq to xml handing of namespaces, using the feedburner style on Scott Hanselman's blog.

	var request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest) System.Net.WebRequest.Create(@"http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScottHanselman");

	//this works:
	using (var response = request.GetResponse())
	{
		var xmlDoc = XDocument.Load(response.GetResponseStream());
		
		var ns = XNamespace.Get(@"http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0");
		
		var elems = from x in xmlDoc.Descendants(XName.Get("item")) 
			  select x.Element(XName.Get("origLink", ns.NamespaceName)).Value;
		
		elems.ToList().ForEach(Console.WriteLine);
	}
    
	Console.WriteLine("now try another type of feed...");
	//this doesn't work. Something to do with the different structure of FunnelWeb RSS feed, I'm out of ideas
	request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest) System.Net.WebRequest.Create(@"http://www.paulstovell.com/feed");

	using (var response = request.GetResponse())
	{
                  System.Xml.Linq.XNamespace ns = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
		var xmlDoc = XDocument.Load(response.GetResponseStream());
	         
                  // Thanks to this answer on SO, it is now udpated and works as intended
                  // http://stackoverflow.com/a/8876382/75963

		var elems = from x in xmlDoc.Descendants(ns + "entry") 
			  select x.Element(ns + "id").Value;
		
		elems.ToList().ForEach(Console.WriteLine);
		if(!elems.Any())
			Console.WriteLine("failed to read the 2nd feed");
	}
}