diff --git a/apps/rss_feeds/icon_importer.py b/apps/rss_feeds/icon_importer.py
index e3b616df4..6405fdfda 100644
--- a/apps/rss_feeds/icon_importer.py
+++ b/apps/rss_feeds/icon_importer.py
@@ -170,7 +170,10 @@ class IconImporter(object):
             compressed_content = key.get_contents_as_string()
             stream = StringIO(compressed_content)
             gz = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=stream)
-            content = gz.read()
+            try:
+                content = gz.read()
+            except IOError:
+                content = None
         else:
             content = MFeedPage.get_data(feed_id=self.feed.pk)
         url = self._url_from_html(content)
@@ -197,6 +200,9 @@ class IconImporter(object):
     
     def get_image_from_url(self, url):
         # print 'Requesting: %s' % url
+        if not url:
+            return None, None
+            
         @timelimit(30)
         def _1(url):
             try:
diff --git a/apps/rss_feeds/page_importer.py b/apps/rss_feeds/page_importer.py
index 2b2c1b637..0ac2ee00c 100644
--- a/apps/rss_feeds/page_importer.py
+++ b/apps/rss_feeds/page_importer.py
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ class PageImporter(object):
                         response = requests.get(feed_link, headers=self.headers)
                     except requests.exceptions.TooManyRedirects:
                         response = requests.get(feed_link)
+                    except AttributeError:
+                        self.save_no_page()
+                        return
                     try:
                         data = response.text
                     except (LookupError, TypeError):
diff --git a/utils/story_functions.py b/utils/story_functions.py
index bc62dc8ed..fb4c16abb 100644
--- a/utils/story_functions.py
+++ b/utils/story_functions.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import datetime
 import struct
 from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
 from lxml.html.diff import tokenize, fixup_ins_del_tags, htmldiff_tokens
+from lxml.etree import ParserError
 from itertools import chain
 from django.utils.dateformat import DateFormat
 from django.utils.html import strip_tags as strip_tags_django
@@ -250,8 +251,12 @@ def image_size(datastream):
     return content_type, width, height
 
 def htmldiff(old_html, new_html):
-    old_html_tokens = tokenize(old_html, include_hrefs=False) 
-    new_html_tokens = tokenize(new_html, include_hrefs=False) 
+    try:
+        old_html_tokens = tokenize(old_html, include_hrefs=False) 
+        new_html_tokens = tokenize(new_html, include_hrefs=False) 
+    except (KeyError, ParserError):
+        return new_html
+    
     result = htmldiff_tokens(old_html_tokens, new_html_tokens) 
     result = ''.join(result).strip()