Microsoft's RSS team floats a few icons to see what people think we should do in future news aggregators.

Dave Winer answers "big thumb down ... stop reinventing."

One thing is that we love icons. Look at IE's toolbar (or any of our toolbars). We use icons to denote everything. Why not just text? Cause icons work better and we want to localize everything. Windows is available in 26 or so languages and icons translate better than letters like RSS or XML. Why not just keep them English everywhere?

Well, let me ask you, what would you think of a Chinese company that forced you to deal with Chinese text on all your products?

Link: Microsoft Team RSS Blog

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