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 currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, 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