Looks like the World Wants a Blog Icon After all

45,000 people a year, visit my blog when searching for “Blog Icon”In October 2008 I was mulling over the idea that there isn’t a universally recognised blog icon, unfortunately after a few scribbles I got side tracked and forgot about it until a couple of months later when I found my scribbles in a notepad… so I launched illustrator and 15 mins later the blog icon was born. As you can probably tell, I based the icon on the RSS feed icon as virtually all blogs have an RSS feed option and that’s how a lot of people read them.

Since initially creating and posting it I’ve been surprised by how popular it’s become and the number of people using. I get around 120-130 people a day visiting my personal blog with searches for “Blog Icon”, that’s about 45,000 people a year! The blog icon is registered at Creative Commons as Attribution-ShareAlike http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/ ie anyone can use it, modify it, pass it on etc, but they must do so with the same rights, ie they shouldn’t charge anyone for it or add any restrictions,

For a .zip containing the blog icon in various sizes PNG & GIF formats, including the original Photoshop & Illustrator vector files, visit www.theblogicon.com.