Subscribe!
I read Tom R's post about an RSS event in Cork, and in the comments he mentioned a Dave Winer post on syndication that I found interesting. Interesting because he is advocating a very simple idea which makes a lot of sense.
Essentially he wants to replace all the various different buttons for syndication with one simple and universal one that says 'subscribe'.
This would replace xml, web feed, rss, blah blah blah and when clicked it would subscribe the user to whatever they are looking at... anyways, read his post about it...
It's a nice idea because it's a simple idea. And it would result in websites doing what they say on the tin rather than relying on user knowledge of your technologies...
In another of the comments a user complained that the 'subscribe' button was hard to make look nice in the white on orange format Dave advocated.
But I disagree:
Essentially he wants to replace all the various different buttons for syndication with one simple and universal one that says 'subscribe'.
This would replace xml, web feed, rss, blah blah blah and when clicked it would subscribe the user to whatever they are looking at... anyways, read his post about it...
It's a nice idea because it's a simple idea. And it would result in websites doing what they say on the tin rather than relying on user knowledge of your technologies...
In another of the comments a user complained that the 'subscribe' button was hard to make look nice in the white on orange format Dave advocated.
But I disagree:
2 Comments:
Sure but your Subscribe button doesn't do anything Frank!
;-)
Tom
Must be a mac thing tom... works fine here...
heh heh heh...
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