Comments on: Call for a Universal Blog Icon

By: Eric_Thriller

Eric_Thriller — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:14:59 +0000

Idea

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/9508/blogico...

By: Eric_Thriller

Eric_Thriller — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:00:29 +0000

If you look at today's society everything has a reflection of itself visually. People connect themselves personally to objects and designs now more that ever.

A blog is not an RSS feed. They are two totally different means of communication.

Think about apps on an iPhone. Each one of those has a certain identity to relate to.

So creating an identity for "Blogs" is a great idea. We just have to find the right identity for it!

By: Eric_Thriller

Eric_Thriller — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:59:32 +0000

This is the same question we ran across with our design and development team. Some people created

B with rings (like the RSS) = Not Original

B like Blogger = Already used.

We need to find a way to incorporate a universal connection through blogs and websites.

To add to Michael Sauers comment:

If you look at today's society everything has a reflection of itself visually. People connect themselves personally to objects and designs now more that ever.

A blog is not an RSS feed. They are two totally different means of communication.

Think about apps on an iPhone. Each one of those has a certain identity to relate to.

So creating an identity for "Blogs" is a great idea. We just have to find the right identity for it!

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:36:53 +0000

Thanks for asking the question! I am contemplating the same issue now as I have been asked to come up with an icon to use as a visual link to my websites list of blogs. Wish I had the answer!

Many folks do seem to use the red B, others I have noticed are using round buttons with capital B’s on them.

In my case, we will use one as a visual link to my websites list of blogs (we have several).

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theanalogdivide » Blog Archive » Sweet Swag at CiL — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:39:23 +0000

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By: hipertextos

hipertextos — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:26:58 +0000

An idea:

http://theblogicon.blogspot.com/

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:39:53 +0000

That’s an excellent question, Michael. I think as our site continues to evolve, we thinking about ways to delineate the more static content of the traditional website from the more fluid material on the blogs.

We’d like to indicate that visitors can respond to certain pages in a way they can’t with the site as it currently exists. As we develop the audience for this sort of thing, I would hope some of these features start to bleed into the older pages on the website.

In a lot of ways, I think this could help spur the evolution of the way our patrons interact with the library website. But to make that transition take place, we need to make sure our audience knows what’s what.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:17:00 +0000

What about some kind of electrified quill? Haha. Or perhaps a “B” like blogger, but with a completely different look. It could be embossed over a small globe, signifying the web. Anyway, good luck.

By: Michael Sauers

Michael Sauers — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:15:53 +0000

Ok, I’ll ask the big question. Why do you need an icon to say something came from a blog? Who really cares if it came from a blog, or a feed, or from a photocopy for that matter? The RSS icon indicates that there’s an alternative way to get information, not the information’s source.