Hey Bobby,
I believe your hosting provider may have been restricting outgoing access because this error only occurs if EasyBlog is not able to retrieve any contents from the RSS feed.
You can try to contact your hosting provider to see if they recently placed any "firewalls" which prevents outgoing connections.
If you want me to further debug this, by getting the exact error message returned by "curl", please edit the first post above and include the FTP access.
By the way, please remember to assign your domain to your license to obtain for support in the future. You can do so by accessing your license area at
http://stackideas.com/dashboard