I’ve just realised a flaw in my feeds. When I provide a blockquote, I always fill in the cite attribute, and then use JavaScript to pull it out and display a link to the source after the quote itself, but of course this doesn’t work in aggregators, and they’ll never see the link to my source, let alone know where it’s from! They’d need to either look at the source of the fee...

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Whenever I quote from other sites, I use code like this: <blockquote cite="source url">Quoted Source</blockquote> and then I use Simon Willison’s blockquote citations javascript to automatically generate a link to the page I’ve quoted from (which is the link that says “source” after the quote...

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