I once surfed for RSS icons and found more than 20 different ones regularaly used. Noticing that iTunes started using a new icon to represent podcasts I decided to take a look for those this time around. Here’s seven. There were others but they were mostly variations on the ones reprinted here. So, what do you think? Which do you feel should be the standard?
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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6 Replies to “Podcast icons”
I thought Microsoft and Mozilla agreed to use the “orange square” (for lack of a better term) as the standard, so I would try to stick with an icon that uses that.
the orange square looks too much like an RSS feed icon
But podcasts are RSS feeds…
The RSS one with the earphones, is that image open for distribution?
AS far as I can tell it is. I didn’t create it nor can I determine who did. I’ve seen it used all over the next without a citation to an original source.
The RSS one with earphones is open for distribution, get it here:
I thought Microsoft and Mozilla agreed to use the “orange square” (for lack of a better term) as the standard, so I would try to stick with an icon that uses that.
the orange square looks too much like an RSS feed icon
But podcasts are RSS feeds…
The RSS one with the earphones, is that image open for distribution?
AS far as I can tell it is. I didn’t create it nor can I determine who did. I’ve seen it used all over the next without a citation to an original source.
The RSS one with earphones is open for distribution, get it here:
http://www.spoiltchild.com/pinstripe/article/podcast-logo