Point taken, Dave…
Dave points to my comments on the OPML Validator, and in the process points out (perhaps inadvertently) that my blog’s html pages make it a little hard to figure out who I am (hint: my first name’s not Kin 
). My contact link is several posts down the page and not all that easy to find.
As a result I’ve modified my blog template to put a by-line at the top of the sidebar. I also made some other minor changes to the rest of the page; the whole excercise exposes a risk I perceive in my publication style.
I think more and more of RSS as my default publication medium, and that’s great for ease of use and convenince for the digerati. But thinking of my content as an RSS feed first has the correlary effect of distracting me from the html version and it’s usability. And I think you can see that as well in the proliferation of website badges (in what way does having 30 badges in your sidebar make things easier for your readers?)
I was going to bitch a little bit here about how feed readers don’t allow users to see any of the meta-data form the feed you’re viewing as part of the viewing experience. How when I look at a blog’s page I can usually see some information about the blog that gives me some context in the reading but when I look at the same blog’s feed in an aggregator I need to go somewhere else to even see who the blog belongs to and about the fact that it wouldn’t be hard, even in web-based readers, to gather some of the data from the feed’s header data and present it to the user. But then I realized that I don’t provide much useful data there myself, so I better keep my mouth shut.
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