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i've never run across a blog that i've wanted to follow that doesn't have an rss/atom feed - they are often hidden / in unexpected places though - these days i just ctrl+u (view source in firefox) and ctrl+f for "rss" or "atom" and 99% of the time, there's a hit.

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> i've never run across a blog that i've wanted to follow that doesn't have an rss/atom feed

One time only for me. Don’t even remember the site as I couldn’t follow it ;)

> these days i just ctrl+u (view source in firefox) and ctrl+f for "rss" or "atom" and 99% of the time, there's a hit.

I tend to not even do that much, the vast majority of sites have their feeds properly marked up, so pasting the base URL into my reader gives me a list of available feeds.

If you are getting hits for this you are probably finding the auto-discovery <link> tag. You can get browser extensions that find this automatically and put up an icon that you can click to direct you to your favourite reader. Most readers also support just pasting the article URL and it will find the feed for you.

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