Jeff Veen hit on some interesting points regarding user experience with RSS feeds:
“A while back on this blog, I asked for help in designing the most usable way to present links to a feed. That is, considering the vast majority aren’t even aware of what RSS is, why are we peppering our pages with little orange icons that link to garbled-looking XML markup? But, what does that icon do? Here’s where we struggled with convention. Typically, people either click on the icons or drag them to an aggregator. Some folks right-click and copy the feed’s URL. We decided not to link feeds directly from the icon, but instead offer up a page that shows all the feeds a user can subscribe to.” {More}
