Comments on: RSS vs Atom, you know, “for dummies”

By: About RSS (no not the Saffron Brigade) « Harish Krishan B

About RSS (no not the Saffron Brigade) « Harish Krishan B — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:19:07 +0000

[...] popular types of syndincation process, RSS & Atom. A good comparison of the two can be found here. I am not going to elaborate on this as this syndication process is done by the Blog Service [...]

By: RSS and Twitterfeed — a bit of a tutorial | Art blog of April VanSickle

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:29:32 +0000

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By: TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 This Week (July 17 - 23)

TechCrunch » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 This Week (July 17 - 23) — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 04:49:33 +0000

[...] 9. RSS v. Atom for Dummies [...]

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:24:44 +0000

Fred, Great essay. I am going to link to this in our next weekly wrapup.

By: fred

fred — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 04:03:04 +0000

Thats true, Scott. Which may be seen as a bad decision by Dave Winer and the rest of the RSS group, in my own humble opinion. Particularly now that RSS is taking off in the business world (heck, we’re seeing venture capital funds off 100m just for RSS ventures), a name change will confuse both users and investors with no clear technological background.

Still, your point is very valid, I’ll update the story to reflect that.

By: sco

sco — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 03:58:48 +0000

“other (improved) versions of RSS are bound to emerge in due time”

Actually, according to the RSS 2 spec (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#roadmap), it’s not intended that any significant changes/improvements occur under the RSS 2 name, but rather under new names. Atom can fairly be considered just that — a continuation of RSS’s work, done under a new name.