Two days ago, Matt Griffith has come up with the smart idea of using the HTML link element to point to a site's RSS feed from the site itself - thus allowing automatic discovery of RSS feeds.

By adding a line like this: <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="XML" href="yoursite.antville.org" /> a site would be providing metadata as to the location of its feed - and this would allow newsreaders, browsers and search engines to automatically locate the feed. ...o'reilly network