People really liked the RSS tip I posted the other day, so here’s another one, also related to the channel-level title element.

Consider the screen shot below, and the Thinking about… blog.

Part of a blogroll with limited info about a great blogger, Timothy Snyder.

I can’t tell from the title who’s speaking, whereas with the two feeds above it I know it’s Brian Lehrer and Kottke, and below, an excellent local site called The Overlook.

Now it’s a shame that it doesn’t say who’s doing the thinking because it’s someone who is on a roll right now, historian Timothy Snyder. So the title pretty much has to say his name, if it’s going to look good in a list of other bloggers.

BTW, just listened to Snyder on the Scott Galloway podcast, another thinker who I’ve just started listening to. With the two of them together, you will learn a lot.

So remember the title sometimes is the only handle a reader has to figure out what it is. Choose it carefully and make sure it looks good in a tight space like the one shown below.

If you have questions about how to make your RSS 2.0 feeds work better, please add note below. If I don’t know maybe someone else does.