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[Allan Doyle]

There was a flurry of this a while ago. I prefer leaving the RSS part  
alone and only adding, like Andrew's

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I had made something like these. They were slightly larger so I just  
whittled them down to 16 pixels high. I think that the "RSS" part is  
assumed, because the orange icon means "feed" or "rss" already, so  
maybe the text should say "Geo". I also think if we can find a  
distinctive color, it can stand out better.

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	Allan

On Jul 19, 2006, at 08:15, Andrew Turner wrote:

> On 7/19/06, Josh at oklieb <josh at oklieb.net> wrote:
>>
>> I appreciate your efforts. The problem is really to come up with
>> something which is evocative in the 12x12 pixel size at which the RSS
>> icon is often used. I've also tried to work something out, but
>> haven't really gotten something I was yet entirely happy with, e.g.
>>
>
> Good point. One thing to try and convey, however, is that the feed is
> still RSS/Atom, it just has extra markup in it. It isn't a whole new
> feed type. You can still put a GeoRSS feed into your vanilla RSS
> reader and it will be ok. I thought maybe putting the globe in the
> RSS's bottom-left circle, but that doesn't show up at 12x12. Seems
> like there should become some typical way for a feed to add the
> various extensions that it provides, but nothing other than the
> standard has shown up yet at http://feedicons.com/
>
> There was a decent suggestion at "Subtraction":
> http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2006/0530_little_orang.php
>
> I've attached 3 images at your prescribed 12x12, though I do see a lot
> of sites use 16x16 as well. And 1 that is longer.
>
>
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> Andrew Turner
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> <RSSPlanet_1212.png>
> <RSSWorld_1212.png>
> <RSS_globe_1212.png>
> <GeoRSS_chiclet.png>
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