Wednesday, December 27th, 2006...7:24 am...by:
World’s Largest RSS Button
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Behold: I have created the (booming announcer’s voice with echo) world’s largest RSS subscription button with multi-lingual “subscribe” request action. Please feast your eyes on the top of the home page of our blog.
Oh sure, Doug made quite a nice one and Sean’s is quite impressive as well.
The biggest thing that sets mine apart is that it -pleads- asks for subscriptions in six different languages (hopefully, the free online translation service I used is accurate ;)). If you want to use it to shamelessly seek new subscribers to your blog, click here to download it. Feel free to use it as you will!
6 Comments
December 27th, 2006 at 10:13 am
now, my “dang big subscribe button” is loud … yours is fluent in 6 differnet languages - plus email subscribe is no doubt turned on in your feedburner account.
possibly, oh possibly, some other bloggers will enter the fray (that means… forget it).
peac4d.
amos dettonville
December 27th, 2006 at 10:29 am
I feel that your RSS button is more of a brute (”Subscribe or I will pummel you”). I think you may be on to something because I think that approach will work with some of the more timid readers :).
We should track the subscriber numbers and see which approach is better!
December 27th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Welcome to the ridiculously useless RSS icon family! Of course, you’re is ridiculous in six languages so you’ve got us on that one!
Doug
December 27th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Yes, we have been assimilated and I feel it will be a growing community too as the Internet is FULL of useless stuff :).
I just hope the language translator we used is accurate. For all I know, we are saying bad words (gulp).
December 27th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Just a crazy “out there” thought, dude :), but pray tell, what benefit is a multi-lingual subscribe button if I only speak English? And if I don’t speak English, why would I be subscribing to your English-language blog!!
Now if I am into big buttons then it is a great idea, and if I have an urge to learn the term “RSS” in 6 languages, great too (le RSS, el RSS,
??? etc etc?) but otherwise, I don’t get it.
Good luck in the battle of the blogs. I am The Pisstaker. Watch out
December 27th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Very good questions indeed. Hopefully, the language translation feature we setup for the blog will work for non-English speaking readers(hopefully);).
The non-English wording on the button says “subscribe”, not RSS. We are hoping people all over the world will feel pity for us and…well… subscribe :).
I wish you well in the BOTB - I even clicked your dinky little RSS button and grabbed your feed :).
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