New icons

I've changed the syndication icons on both my sites. I made up my own feedburner logo and my own atom logo. You can see them down on the sidebar of both this and my other site. I did this for a couple of reasons that may or may not make sense to some people.

The first reason, and indeed the reason that sparked the change, was that I had noticed this article on the site of a web developer called Simon Willison (hopefully he isn't so well known in the internet arena that not knowing who he is is a huge faux pas) and basically I agree with him. So rather than using the rather ambiguous XML icon, I made my own RSS feedburner logoed icon. I also made my own atom icon as I couldn't find any in the 20 seconds of looking that I attempted.

The second reason that I made my own is that the real RSS, XML and Atom icons I have seen so far have those 3D style beveled edges, which I intensely dislike. It was one of the first things that I didn't like about the internet, all those beveled edged pictures and tables, eeuugghhh....

So anyway, if anyone wants to steal my versions of these icons, feel free to do so (corporations must contact me to arrange licensing fees though).