diff --git a/classes/Notice.php b/classes/Notice.php
index 97cb3b8fbe..4c7e6ab4b7 100644
--- a/classes/Notice.php
+++ b/classes/Notice.php
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ class Notice extends Memcached_DataObject
         return $groups;
     }
 
-    function asAtomEntry($namespace=false, $source=false)
+    function asAtomEntry($namespace=false, $source=false, $author=true)
     {
         $profile = $this->getProfile();
 
@@ -1151,8 +1151,10 @@ class Notice extends Memcached_DataObject
 
         $xs->element('title', null, $this->content);
 
-        $xs->raw($profile->asAtomAuthor());
-        $xs->raw($profile->asActivityActor());
+        if ($author) {
+            $xs->raw($profile->asAtomAuthor());
+            $xs->raw($profile->asActivityActor());
+        }
 
         $xs->element('link', array('rel' => 'alternate',
                                    'type' => 'text/html',
diff --git a/lib/activity.php b/lib/activity.php
index ce14fa2546..e1bce6f190 100644
--- a/lib/activity.php
+++ b/lib/activity.php
@@ -1060,6 +1060,18 @@ class Activity
         }
 
         $this->entry = $entry;
+
+        // @fixme Don't send in a DOMDocument
+        if ($feed instanceof DOMDocument) {
+            common_log(
+                LOG_WARNING,
+                'Activity::__construct() - '
+                . 'DOMDocument passed in for feed by mistake. '
+                . "Expecting a 'feed' DOMElement."
+            );
+            $feed = $feed->getElementsByTagName('feed')->item(0);
+        }
+
         $this->feed  = $feed;
 
         $pubEl = $this->_child($entry, self::PUBLISHED, self::ATOM);
diff --git a/lib/atomnoticefeed.php b/lib/atomnoticefeed.php
index 3c3556cb95..e4df731fe0 100644
--- a/lib/atomnoticefeed.php
+++ b/lib/atomnoticefeed.php
@@ -107,9 +107,19 @@ class AtomNoticeFeed extends Atom10Feed
      */
     function addEntryFromNotice($notice)
     {
-        $this->addEntryRaw($notice->asAtomEntry());
+        $source = $this->showSource();
+        $author = $this->showAuthor();
+
+        $this->addEntryRaw($notice->asAtomEntry(false, $source, $author));
     }
 
+    function showSource()
+    {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    function showAuthor()
+    {
+        return true;
+    }
 }
-
-
diff --git a/lib/atomusernoticefeed.php b/lib/atomusernoticefeed.php
index 55cebef6df..428cc2de2f 100644
--- a/lib/atomusernoticefeed.php
+++ b/lib/atomusernoticefeed.php
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ class AtomUserNoticeFeed extends AtomNoticeFeed
         if (!empty($user)) {
             $profile = $user->getProfile();
             $this->addAuthor($profile->nickname, $user->uri);
+            $this->setActivitySubject($profile->asActivityNoun('subject'));
         }
 
         $title      = sprintf(_("%s timeline"), $user->nickname);
@@ -105,4 +106,14 @@ class AtomUserNoticeFeed extends AtomNoticeFeed
     {
         return $this->user;
     }
+
+    function showSource()
+    {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    function showAuthor()
+    {
+        return false;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/UserFeedParseTest.php b/tests/UserFeedParseTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b3f9a64171
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/UserFeedParseTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+<?php
+
+if (isset($_SERVER) && array_key_exists('REQUEST_METHOD', $_SERVER)) {
+    print "This script must be run from the command line\n";
+    exit();
+}
+
+define('INSTALLDIR', realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/..'));
+define('STATUSNET', true);
+
+require_once INSTALLDIR . '/lib/common.php';
+
+class UserFeedParseTests extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+{
+    public function testFeed1()
+    {
+        global $_testfeed1;
+        $dom = DOMDocument::loadXML($_testfeed1);
+        $this->assertFalse(empty($dom));
+
+        $entries = $dom->getElementsByTagName('entry');
+
+        $entry1 = $entries->item(0);
+        $this->assertFalse(empty($entry1));
+
+        $feedEl = $dom->getElementsByTagName('feed')->item(0);
+        $this->assertFalse(empty($feedEl));
+
+        // Test actor (from activity:subject)
+
+        $act1 = new Activity($entry1, $feedEl);
+        $this->assertFalse(empty($act1));
+        $this->assertFalse(empty($act1->actor));
+        $this->assertEquals($act1->actor->type, ActivityObject::PERSON);
+        $this->assertEquals($act1->actor->title, 'Zach Copley');
+        $this->assertEquals($act1->actor->id, 'http://localhost/statusnet/user/1');
+        $this->assertEquals($act1->actor->link, 'http://localhost/statusnet/zach');
+
+        $avatars = $act1->actor->avatarLinks;
+
+        $this->assertEquals(
+                $avatars[0]->url,
+                'http://localhost/statusnet/theme/default/default-avatar-profile.png'
+        );
+
+        $this->assertEquals(
+                $avatars[1]->url,
+                'http://localhost/statusnet/theme/default/default-avatar-stream.png'
+        );
+
+        $this->assertEquals(
+                $avatars[2]->url,
+                'http://localhost/statusnet/theme/default/default-avatar-mini.png'
+        );
+
+        $this->assertEquals($act1->actor->displayName, 'Zach Copley');
+
+        $poco = $act1->actor->poco;
+        $this->assertEquals($poco->preferredUsername, 'zach');
+        $this->assertEquals($poco->address->formatted, 'El Cerrito, CA');
+        $this->assertEquals($poco->urls[0]->type, 'homepage');
+        $this->assertEquals($poco->urls[0]->value, 'http://zach.copley.name');
+        $this->assertEquals($poco->urls[0]->primary, 'true');
+        $this->assertEquals($poco->note, 'Zach Hack Attack');
+
+        // test the post
+
+        //var_export($act1);
+        $this->assertEquals($act1->object->type, 'http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/note');
+        $this->assertEquals($act1->object->title, 'And now for something completely insane...');
+
+        $this->assertEquals($act1->object->content, 'And now for something completely insane...');
+        $this->assertEquals($act1->object->id, 'http://localhost/statusnet/notice/3');
+
+    }
+
+}
+
+$_testfeed1 = <<<TESTFEED1
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<feed xml:lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://purl.org/syndication/atommedia" xmlns:poco="http://portablecontacts.net/spec/1.0" xmlns:ostatus="http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0">
+ <id>http://localhost/statusnet/api/statuses/user_timeline/1.atom</id>
+ <title>zach timeline</title>
+ <subtitle>Updates from zach on Zach Dev!</subtitle>
+ <logo>http://localhost/statusnet/theme/default/default-avatar-profile.png</logo>
+ <updated>2010-03-04T01:41:14+00:00</updated>
+<author>
+ <name>zach</name>
+ <uri>http://localhost/statusnet/user/1</uri>
+
+</author>
+ <link href="http://localhost/statusnet/zach" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
+ <link href="http://localhost/statusnet/main/sup#1" rel="http://api.friendfeed.com/2008/03#sup" type="application/json"/>
+ <link href="http://localhost/statusnet/main/push/hub" rel="hub"/>
+ <link href="http://localhost/statusnet/main/salmon/user/1" rel="http://salmon-protocol.org/ns/salmon-replies"/>
+ <link href="http://localhost/statusnet/main/salmon/user/1" rel="http://salmon-protocol.org/ns/salmon-mention"/>
+ <link href="http://localhost/statusnet/api/statuses/user_timeline/1.atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/>
+<activity:subject>
+ <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person</activity:object-type>
+ <id>http://localhost/statusnet/user/1</id>
+ <title>Zach Copley</title>
+ <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://localhost/statusnet/zach"/>
+ <link rel="avatar" type="image/png" media:width="96" media:height="96" href="http://localhost/statusnet/theme/default/default-avatar-profile.png"/>
+ <link rel="avatar" type="image/png" media:width="48" media:height="48" href="http://localhost/statusnet/theme/default/default-avatar-stream.png"/>
+ <link rel="avatar" type="image/png" media:width="24" media:height="24" href="http://localhost/statusnet/theme/default/default-avatar-mini.png"/>
+
+<poco:preferredUsername>zach</poco:preferredUsername>
+<poco:displayName>Zach Copley</poco:displayName>
+<poco:note>Zach Hack Attack</poco:note>
+<poco:address>
+ <poco:formatted>El Cerrito, CA</poco:formatted>
+</poco:address>
+<poco:urls>
+ <poco:type>homepage</poco:type>
+ <poco:value>http://zach.copley.name</poco:value>
+ <poco:primary>true</poco:primary>
+
+</poco:urls>
+</activity:subject>
+<entry>
+ <title>And now for something completely insane...</title>
+ <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://localhost/statusnet/notice/3"/>
+ <id>http://localhost/statusnet/notice/3</id>
+ <published>2010-03-04T01:41:07+00:00</published>
+ <updated>2010-03-04T01:41:07+00:00</updated>
+ <link rel="ostatus:conversation" href="http://localhost/statusnet/conversation/3"/>
+ <content type="html">And now for something completely insane...</content>
+</entry>
+
+</feed>
+TESTFEED1;