wanderingstan

The next few days I’ll be at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media here in Boulder. Though its highly academic, there were several good talks todays spawning many interesting thoughts.

But I have to mention that I found yet another icon for blogs. Earlier I blogged about the need for a standard icon.

This one was from the excellent talk about the paper
Traffic Characteristics and Communication Patterns in Blogosphere.

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?

The Official Lijit Blog(TM) was launched today, and Todd kicks things off with a fantistic post. And I’m not just saying that because of the nice things he said about me.

The blog lives at www.lijit.com/blog. Give it a read, add it to your feed.