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  "date": "2002-05-31T09:23:51.000Z",
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  "title": "RSS autodiscovery via the HTML LINK element",
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  "html": "<p><a href=\"http://matt.griffith.com/weblog/2002/05/29.html#a57\">Matt Griffith suggests</a> using an HTML link element as a way to provide robots and news aggregators with means to find a site's <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS\">RSS</a> feed.  <a href=\"http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/05/30.html#rss_autodiscovery\">Mark Pilgrim chimes in</a> with a few thoughts and an improvement.  And then, I see the buzz <a href=\"http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2002/05/30.html#a2087\">coming from Jenny Levine</a> too.</p>\n<p>So, well, it's easy enough.  I just joined the bandwagon too.</p>\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p>shortname=oooago</p>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084057\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://philringnalda.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e68e9944f50a481a64b5a32fdfc02e0d&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://philringnalda.com/\">Phil Ringnalda</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221084057\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-05-31T14:16:37\">2002-05-31T14:16:37</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">Not quite easy enough, though: your feed doesn't seem to be in /xml/newslog.xml like your link tag claims. Bad LM. No biscuit for you.</div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084059\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2ac2cffd36ada8c734b90e02a1e5c1ac&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221084059\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-05-31T14:51:05\">2002-05-31T14:51:05</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">D'oht!  I am biscuit-deprived.  Good catch, should be fixed now. :)</div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084061\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2ac2cffd36ada8c734b90e02a1e5c1ac&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221084061\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-05-31T14:52:49\">2002-05-31T14:52:49</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">Of course, the other thing I'm wondering...  I did have the link on my story pages, but took it off since technically the RSS feed isn't an alternate view for *that* page.  I wonder if it matters so much, and if I should put it back there for convenience?</div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "<p><a href=\"http://matt.griffith.com/weblog/2002/05/29.html#a57\">Matt Griffith suggests</a> using an HTML link element as a way to provide robots and news aggregators with means to find a site's <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RSS\">RSS</a> feed.  <a href=\"http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/05/30.html#rss_autodiscovery\">Mark Pilgrim chimes in</a> with a few thoughts and an improvement.  And then, I see the buzz <a href=\"http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2002/05/30.html#a2087\">coming from Jenny Levine</a> too.</p>\r\n<p>So, well, it's easy enough.  I just joined the bandwagon too.</p>\r\n<!--more-->\r\nshortname=oooago\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084057\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://philringnalda.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e68e9944f50a481a64b5a32fdfc02e0d&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://philringnalda.com/\">Phil Ringnalda</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221084057\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-05-31T14:16:37\">2002-05-31T14:16:37</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">Not quite easy enough, though: your feed doesn't seem to be in /xml/newslog.xml like your link tag claims. Bad LM. No biscuit for you.</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084059\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2ac2cffd36ada8c734b90e02a1e5c1ac&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221084059\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-05-31T14:51:05\">2002-05-31T14:51:05</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">D'oht!  I am biscuit-deprived.  Good catch, should be fixed now. :)</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221084061\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2ac2cffd36ada8c734b90e02a1e5c1ac&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.decafbad.com\">l.m.orchard</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221084061\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-05-31T14:52:49\">2002-05-31T14:52:49</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">Of course, the other thing I'm wondering...  I did have the link on my story pages, but took it off since technically the RSS feed isn't an alternate view for *that* page.  I wonder if it matters so much, and if I should put it back there for convenience?</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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