RSS Feed icons

Posted on March 20, 2006
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Here’s a site dedicated to promoting icons for feeds. I like the icon and have one on my sidebar, however I am going to take issue with anyone who suggests that this will help eliminate confusion or bring feeds to the forefront. If you were to look at this icon and didn’t know what a feed is, would you have any clue from looking at the icon alone? In fact, when I added it to my sidebar I decided to stick the “subscribe” text right next to it because the icon itself doesn’t really mean anything to me.

No doubt this will be an icon that will see much use what with Microsoft adopting it in IE7, and perhaps people will get conditioned to it much like so many other things involving desktop computing. However, if we are really looking for visual cues that entice people to click on them or at least offer a clue as to what they do, then we’re going to have to do a lot better than this.

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