Following on from my post about Dave Winer's subscribe idea, and Tom R's recent post and use of the button itself I'm still actually mulling this over... I mean, I love the concept, however my current XML buttons point toward XML feeds of the blogs... so they are probably more correct - right now having a button that says subscribe doesn't actually subscribe you to anything...

Daves idea of having the subscribe button magically add the feed to the users list of feeds would be great, but right now is it too soon for subscribe buttons?

I'm humming and hawing on this one... back and forth. Anyone else have any thoughts...? Am I being too picky?

Should the subscribe button, for now, lead to a (possibly temporary) page which educates the user about feeds and what they can do with them before leading them to the feed itself?? That way the user sees 'subscribe' and clicks on it - they are brought to a page which explains a bit about feeds and rss aggregators and the like and provides links to tools and tutorials maybe and also prominently features the link to the feed they might want to subscribe to...

Unfortunately this would feck with the current standard practice of a button which leads directly to the feed...

I dunnoe. Need to think about it more.