The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds

"I have always been bothered by how difficult it is to subscribe to RSS/Atom feeds. Consider the user experience -- Someone sees an orange button with an unfamiliar acronym, they click it, and the browser starts spewing undecipherable code. Peter wrote about this a while back, and considering how much excitement there has been in the blog world, little really has changed.

Thankfully, Apple recently made Safari handle the RSS feeds, or send it off to an aggregator you've chosen. If you're using Tiger and haven't found this feature yet, look in Safari's preferences at the RSS pane. There, you'll find a dropdown menu for setting which application you'd like as your default news aggregator.

I'm working on a product right now that is full of feeds, and I want to make sure the experience is appropriate for anyone, regardless of how much experience they've had with RSS. Should I help people subscribe?" (Via Jeffrey Veen)