What is this thing?
I feel like I've made it to college without knowing the capital of France. I admit it! I use computers. I run a website. I blog. But I have no idea what these blog-thingies are called. (I did know enough to get one.) Anyone?
Great. Brilliant buttons, or badges. Someone commented with a site that makes them for you. Hey, I did it the hard way!
Over there, I came up with a better one:
And in honor of the "Thingamabrarians," coined by rjohara and given a logo by saralaughs, I offer:
That was hard. The site doesn't have a condensed font. Now, will someone explain to me, are Thingamabrarians all users, users of the Google group, or users who are also librarians?
Over there, I came up with a better one:
posted by Tim at 1:54 AM
17 Comments:
I've always called it a "button", though I've seen the term "icon" used, as well.
Brilliant Buttons: http://www.lucazappa.com/brilliantMaker/buttonImage.php
36 minutes? You guys are slipping!
I can't believe there's site to make them. I fussed around hand-drawing the letters because I couldn't find a Mac font that looked right.
I added one from that site. I should come up with others.
the capital of france is paris. not the paris from the tabloids, fortunately ;-)
I don't know how you can further condense a font with a 5-pixel wide "M". Some kind of tricky anti-aliasing, I guess - but certainly less legible.
It's called a "chiclet".
I've also seen them called blog stickers.
Chiclet....definitely.
Yeah, badges, chiclets . . . whatever. I really want to know if a guy who leaves dumb messages here can call himself a "Thingamabarian"! One of the best word creations I've seen, I think.
Thingamabrarian... that's anybody whose interested enough to get involved with Library Thing. At least, that's my definition.
Anybody who wants to grab the thingamabrarian logo is welcome to it -- the image isn't copyrighted.
The things are called "steal-these-buttons.
On 22 oktober 2002 a posting was published on antipixel.com (by Jeremy Hedley) who hates the current RSS buttons and made some of his own. This type of button caused some kind of a hype and … more than 2 years later, the Internet is covered with zillions of these kind of buttons in all categories you can imagine, from politics to food, and from sports to complete button navigation systems. Most weblogs use it to express some of their personal feelings or software they used to build their weblog.
I wrote a piece about it once on my weblog here : http://www.aweblog.net/steal-these-buttons-5/
chicklet: a button or link which enables you to add the related RSS FEED to your specific RSS reader, see www.aweblog.net on the right hand site or google: chicklets rss
blogsticker: invented by www.blogstickers.com (no longer active), little sticker like rectangles with a wise or funny quote or message in it mostly related to the blog scene, see google: blogstickers
badge: a little piece of html e.g. photos from flickr which you can "wear" on your site e.g. http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/badge.php
I always thought "chiclet" was a) chewing gum, or b) bad fiction about 20-something babes in the city.
bad fiction or bed fiction? *grin*
Right now I get all these error messages when I try to log in:
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Sorry about that. Bad Tim.
I vote for Chiclet.
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