Corante Example of Bad RSS Icon Usage?

There was a podcast dinner up in Seattle area and I was looking at who was there. 

I noticed that that Alex Williams from Corante was there.  I had it my list of things to do was to find out more about Corante because Mike G at (MWGBlog.com – Reel Reviews Podcast) mentioned he had participated in a one hour podcast about podcasting with via Corante.  I also think that Eric Rice has talked about Corante before on his blog … anyway …

So, if you go to the Corante site there is a nice XML button on the front of the page.  But the underlining link is to a .php page that lists out all the possible RSS feeds I might want. Unfortunately, it took me a couple of tries to add it to my aggregator (Newsgator) to figure out the error. 

I think this is part of what Dave is trying to say in his post "The solution to the Yahoo problem."

I have been thinking about what I should do on my site.  Still don’t have a good answer yet.  My RSS feed is a text link to Feedburner which is a nice service.  I have a Yahoo button which has driven a couple of readers to this site.  And my podcast link is a text link.  Suggestions?

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2 responses to “Corante Example of Bad RSS Icon Usage?”

  1. What Corante did is correct. The Web is clickable. You should click things and things should happen. The problem is that RSS chicklets are not clickable, unless you enjoy angled brackets. The whole right-click on the RSS chicklets and paste it into the RSS reader is the problem. I’m currently working on a solution over on The RSS Blog called Universal Subscription Mechanism. It works by clicking the stupid chicklet.

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  2. What Corante did is correct. The Web is clickable. You should click things and things should happen. The problem is that RSS chicklets are not clickable, unless you enjoy angled brackets. The whole right-click on the RSS chicklets and paste it into the RSS reader is the problem. I’m currently working on a solution over on The RSS Blog called Universal Subscription Mechanism. It works by clicking the stupid chicklet.

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