Darwinian Web
Adam Green's thoughts on the evolution of the Internet

New subscription icon

Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 at 12:45 PM (permalink)

I've adopted the new subscription icon () available from Feed Icons for my RSS feed. Getting rid of RSS and XML icons would be a big advance. Other than Dave's obsessive need to preserve his legacy, I can't see who benefits from pushing the internal format's name in people's faces. "Sell the solution, not the technology" should be the guiding principle. When people change their pages to use this new icon they should also drop the 4 or 5 links for the different RSS and Atom formats. Why is that necessary? I've yet to try an aggregator that doesn't support the common variants.

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