Comments on: Blog Usability: Distracting Bookmark Icons

By: Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Jesper Rønn-Jensen — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:57:45 +0000

Percy, Thanks for noting. That's actually a bit embarrassing that feed icons show up. This morning, I saw that Dalager and Baekdal have also noted that. Here's the screenshot that Dalager sent: We'll look into feedburner to find that setting. But also, we may reflect a little more about it: Maybe two small text-based links are OK, but the full row of attention-dragging icons is wrong.

By: Percy

Percy — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:47:53 +0000

I don’t mind if a blogger posts a couple of links but the icons bother me, especially when they are over-used. By the way, I don’t know if you’re aware, but your feed post shows up with an ‘Email this’, ‘Digg this’ and ‘Add to del.icio.us’ at the bottom. I think there’s a setting in Feedburner which you can use to turn that off.

By: Mathias

Mathias — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:09:42 +0000

Guilty! (Being responsible for the “Want to make IMDb my homepage?” on imdb.com). Put there in the mid nineties and still surviving to this day. Why? Because total novices to the internet do often end on imdb as the first “wow” place and they think it’s really cool that you can “add it as you homepage”. Btw, we never measured any of this.

Mathias
B&O IdeaLab