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Autodiscoverable RSS feed for L&LR news blog

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For anyone who doesn’t use Yammer and who missed the conversation leading up to this: data innovator Tony Hirst of the OU posted to his blog explaining how he’d…

put together a page showing how the well the HEI Libraries are doing at getting autodiscoverable RSS feeds declared on their website homepages.

Only about 10% of the library homepages had autodiscoverable feeds, and Lincoln wasn’t one of them. A conversation with Joss and the University’s website manager later, and now our feed is there:

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A tiny thing, and who knows whether it’ll lead to greater readership of the news blog in future? But worth the small investment in time, I feel.

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Written by Paul Stainthorp

April 17th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

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