+A few pointers and I might be able to implement this myself. -- JamesWestby
+
+> I don't see any problem with the title, it's the same as the title
+> of the wiki page that the rss feed comes from, which can be set
+> using the meta plugin. There are no restrictions to one word or
+> anything like that. Just made ikiwiki emit the following in a test
+> feed:
+
+> > <title>billy bob's news</title>
+
+> Now, the description field currently defaults to the wiki name,
+> and that could indeed stand to be made configurable. Since the
+> current (svn) version of ikiwiki supports long, word-wrapped
+> blocks of text as parameters to [[ikiwiki/PreProcessorDirective]]s, seems
+> to me the best way would be to simple modify inline.pm to make the
+> descripion configurable by such parameter, with a fallback to the
+> wiki name. You'll need to modify rsspage.tmpl to use whatever new
+> template variable you define, that should be all.
+
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+Apologies for the title thing. I tried it yesterday, and it onlt used the first word.
+I must have done something wrong. I'll have a look at implementing the description.
+Thanks. -- JamesWestby
+
+My patch can be found at <http://jameswestby.net/scratch/blog-desc.diff> -- JamesWestby
+
+> Thanks, [[todo/done]] --[[Joey]]