Subscribing to Blogs Should Be Way Easier

I hate things that aren't self-explanatory, so I really hate the way you have to jump through non-intuitive hoops to subscribe to blogs.

There's an interesting proposal for linking to a mini-tutorial along with the button for subscribing to the blog's feed: The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds (Jeffrey Veen).

Thanks to Robert Scoble for the link.

Josh Hallett also talks about the frustration of trying to help people figure out RSS feed subscriptions.

Bloglines has some neat extensions for browsers that let you easily subscribe.  But for a total technophobe, even that step is probably too complicated.