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Matt May is a Web accessibility specialist, and has written on the interaction of people and technology since 1995. He keeps his own weblog at bestkungfu.com, and produces a podcast called Staccato, which features Creative Commons-licensed music.

Alex Williamsblogs, consults and produces unconference style events, where people immerse in DIY media. These are fun occasions, designed for people who want to get together with authors, artists, technologists and leading thinkers to converse, eat, listen to music, write, shoot photos and post podcasts and videoblogs. Alex also works with companies to establish DIY approaches, where writing, photography, voice and video come together to create new conversations and communities. Alex is currently fascinated with digital photography. His girlfriend calls him a Flickrholic. Send Alex a nice message: alexhwilliams at gmail.com.

Nicole Simon loves blogging and podcasting, dashed with an European view. As consultant she helps to facilitate such tools for business purposes or personal publishing empires. She can be found at cruel to be kind and on her private blog Useful Sounds.

Roland Tanglao is a well known podcasting enthusiast and a passionate advocate of blogs, RSS, and social software as a means of online expression for people, organizations and businesses. He is a prominent participant in the blogosphere and online communities and one of the founders of Bryght and as Bryght's Chief Blogging Officer reads hundreds of blogs daily. He graduated from the University of Waterloo, worked at Nortel Networks where he ran its first internal corporate blog, has has been blogging since 1999, and was the first business blogging consultant in Canada.

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January 4, 2006

Happy RSS

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Posted by Alex Williams

feed_icon.gif I don't know, is it me, or is the RSS icon looking like a more universal symbol? With Microsoft announcing last month that they are adopting the Firefox radar like symbol for RSS, I wonder what it will mean to people who have no clue about RSS? The little dot, is that a person telling the world about a feed? Are the radio waves a symbol for subscribing, meaning that you want that feed flowing your way?

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The efforts by folks like Matt Brett over at Feed Icons will define how the RSS feed will look in the years ahead. Matt is spearheading an effort to standardize the identity for syndicated works. I like what he is doing. As part of the effort, he is asking people to download the icon so they may create one of their own in their favorite color. Matt's plans are to create a user submission gallery in 2006.

The orange xml button works for me. But I see the need to make it more of an international icon. And now I can see the icon for RSS in a rainbow of colors. Seems fitting, doesn't it?

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