Interface Elements for Providing Feeds and Having People Subscribe to Them

A good suggestion for a confusing lack of standardization ...

"There are many options for creating an interface element that points to your syndication feed. Branded icons are provided by blog readers in an attempt to get people familiar with those readers to one-click subscribe. There are also many different ways to say that you have a feed in text. Some are much more clear than others.

I think the folks in the “subscribe” camp are on the right track. Consider the definitions of subscribe” and syndicate on dictionary.com - syndicate: To sell (an article or cartoon) for publication in many magazines or newspapers at the same time
- subscribe: To authorize (someone) to receive or access electronic texts or services, especially over the Internet
It’s pretty clear that syndicating a web site is what developers do, and subscribing to a site is what readers do.

So, continuing this evolutionary process in providing clarity for our readers, we might improve our interfaces by offering a button for our feeds that tells users what they can do with it: subscribe.

Here’s one possibility"   continued ...   (Via Bokardo)