The world needs a Blog Icon
At the OpenData conference, several companies related to blogs showed dashboards from their products or fancy diagrams. Blogs were represented visually as either the RSS/Atom icon:
Or by the Blogger icon:
Neither of which is really correct. RSS is merely a related concept, and the Blogger icon is the logo of a company. (Owned by Google, no less.)
For such a fundamental concept, it’s sad their is no visually standard way to represent blogs. We need a standard blog icon. Any designers out there want to take a stab at it?
March 18th, 2007 at 16:11
Hey, don’t you got trackbacks?
well anyway i liked this post and was bored. Result: http://www.theantigravity.de/2007/03/18/blog-icon/
how do you like it?
greetings from germany
March 29th, 2007 at 00:55
Way to rip off the RSS image. When does the Blog image bug “looks like a kindergarden created it” come out?
March 29th, 2007 at 14:42
Seems everyone has been ripping off the RSS image these days. Do you know how many blogs I’ve seen it on????! There will be hell to pay when the dude who made it gets on the internet and realizing everyone’s been stealing his stuff!
-stan
April 5th, 2007 at 17:22
The RSS icon is open source and no one will ever be upset because of its use.
June 12th, 2007 at 04:23
Your exactly right, and am indeed surprised no one has created one. Anyway, my contribution for finding a standardised blogger icon can be found at my blog, let me know what you think
Laterz
April 2nd, 2008 at 22:21
I like the first icon you’ve presented.
As you said, the second is an icon of a company (product, website).