What do all those strange little icons/symbols mean?
We made some icons that are specific to our site; some are standard icons (many sites use them). We’ll do our best to explain them all here:
The RSS/podcast feed icon. On our site, this icon will be next to every podcast because podcasts use RSS, which is a subscription technology that delivers podcasts to you regularly much like you can receive newsletters by email. Once you’re a member of Podcast.com you can just use the 
button to subscribe to a RSS feed. Around the Web this icon means you can subscribe to the content on the page you’re looking at using an RSS reader, and Podcast.com is an online RSS reader. You can use to subscribe to text, audio, video, and many other types of files. If you click on a RSS icon you might see a bunch of code and text, which means you don’t have a program set up to read or subscribe to RSS. [Read more about RSS and how to use it here.]
Newest. Like the RSS icon, but green! This is a type of RSS feed we think is very useful. If you click on this icon, you can see all the newest podcast episodes of all the podcast feeds in that folder, so you can listen to or watch the most recent podcasts.
The link/permalink. Blogs have made the term ‘permalink’ popular; it’s the URL where a particular post can be found so that you can share a blog post with friends. You may have already noticed why the ‘Link’ is useful on Podcast.com; if you search through the directory of podcasts on our homepage, you may notice that the URL for the page you’re on always remains the same: “http://www.podcast.com”. However, if you click this ‘Link’ or put the URL in your browser bar, you can then see what URL that page lives on. Example: “http://www.podcast.com/show/798″ is ESPN Radio Daily. Then you can share that podcast with your friends or go directly to that page later.
The folder icon. This is exactly what it seems — a folder that holds things. On our site it’s a folder that holds podcasts, Web links, and other RSS feeds.
The ‘edit your collection’ icon. This is for members of our site. This will appear below your collection of podcasts at the right side of your member page. When you click it, you can move your podcasts around, add a podcast RSS feed (
), add a folder (
) and drag your podcasts into them, add a link to a website (
), or add an OPML file (
) you find somewhere on the Web.
Add a shortcut. Also for members of our site. This is a shortcut to a collection of podcasts or another member on our site. When you are on any page on the site other than your member page, you can click the icon and it will add that folder to your collection of podcasts next to the 
icon. Then updates to that folder will show up automatically in your collection — you don’t have to go back to check.
Create a widget. As a member, you are able to create a widget that shows a collection of podcasts on Podcast.com on your blog or website.
