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:: Feed Icons


See this? This is cool.

What that happens to be is the official, language agnostic, international symbol for "Here's my feed". If it looks oddly familiar, it's because it comes from the little "Live Bookmark" icon that pops up whenever you view a page with subscription links in Mozilla, and frankly, this is one of those cases where something is so blindingly obvious that it hits you like a truck.

See, the problem with all the various permitations of the orange XML/RSS links is that… well… nobody knows what the hell they are. Give them something like that icon (with the right tools to take advantage of it) and you've got something your Grandma could figure out.

i've already swapped the various old, crufty subscription links with this icon because, well, dammit it just makes sense. If you want copies to do it yourself, feel free to click on ye great honking big version and grab the download file yourself.

i get the feeling, we're going to be seeing more of these. (At least, i darn well hope so…)

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