intertwingly

If you are the type of person who tends to update their Weblog’s HTML template to include a link to your favicon, consider updating your feed template too.  The atom:icon you select “SHOULD have an aspect ratio of one (horizontal) to one (vertical) and SHOULD be suitable for presentation at a small size”.

Bloglines will already display this information discretely on the top right (example).  Others may use this in a left pane list of feeds.  By including the following in my Planet template, I have this icon preceding every entry in Planet Intertwingly:

<TMPL_IF channel_icon><img src="<TMPL_VAR channel_icon>" class="icon"/></TMPL_IF>