Here's some free goodness for anyone looking for an easy way to do RSS discovery for Blogware powered weblogs. It only works for Blogware users, but that means it will work for thousands of users already (and growing every day!)

Blogware produces a specific RSS feed for every single category that a blogger creates. The contents of these individual feeds are different based on the content of the categories.

For instance, the RSS for /Tasty Bytes is going to be different than the content found in the RSS for /Random Bytes/Code

Blogware pumps out *tons* of RSS for each weblog and dumps them into the root of each "category" directory as {hostname}/{pathStructure}/index.xml

From a discoverability perspective, there's a huge problem here. {hostname} and {pathStructure} are essentially both variables - i.e. these bits of RSS goodness are real tough to find unless someone tells you where they are. And of course, we all know what the result will be if you start asking users where their RSS feeds are.

Blogware addresses this by creating custom OCS for each user and dumps it in their root folder. This RSS directory contains the locations of all the RSS (and RVW!) that a user creates.

You will always be able to find it at {hostname}/ocs.xml - for instance, mine is here [http://www.byte.org/ocs.xml]

So, as long as you know the hostname for a users weblog, you've got a handy roadmap to all of their RSS right at your fingertips!