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minor thing I just noticed.
This diary title comes though slightly wrong on blogs.osm.org We see ">" instead of ">" (double escaped I guess). This might actually be bug in the RSS feed from the OSM diaries. Not sure if the problem only applies to titles or the body text too.

The feed owner email and name should be in the config, rather than hard coded:

https://github.com/smsm1/blogs.osm.org/blob/master/theme/opml.xml.erb

Hello,
FYI: Just a minor issue: Looking at the repo it looks like the Rakefile has no purpose. Why keep it around? May I suggest deleting it to avoid confusion. Cheers.

It would be useful to have the date that all the feeds were last updated. It exists on the old planetplanet version.

So that we have the correct last updated date for the OPML feed.
http://planet-osm.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/planet.opml.xml

https://github.com/smsm1/blogs.osm.org/blob/master/theme/opml.xml.erb

There are now images in the full html page, or the RSS feed.

A lot of blogs and diaries seem to feed MASSIVE images. I presume that's because source blogs generally will scale down a big image (or get the browser to do so) ...but blogs.osm.org does not

Hello,
Sorry to tell you that the yaml configuration format is deprecated (not recommend). Why? It's usually easier to use the INI format. I invite you to change the planet.yml to planet.ini. For example, convert

 title: OpenStreetMap Blogs

 shaun_mcdonald:
   title: Shaun McDonald
   link: http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/
   feed: http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/feed/
   twitter: smsm1

 mapbox:
   title: Mapbox Blog
   link: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/
   feed: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/blog.rss
   twitter: mapbox

to

 title=OpenStreetMap Blogs

 [shaun_mcdonald]
   title=Shaun McDonald
   link=http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/
   feed=http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/feed/
   twitter=smsm1

 [mapbox]
   title=Mapbox Blog
   link=https://www.mapbox.com/blog/
   feed=https://www.mapbox.com/blog/blog.rss
   twitter=mapbox

Should not take more than a couple of minutes. If I can be of any help let me know. Cheers.

Missing from the RSS feeds and the main page. It exists in the previous planetplanet software.