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As much as I think the Atom effort is a waste, it's going forward, and I support Atom - both the older 0.2, and the newer 0.3 - in BottomFeeder. Dave's torqued because Google (Blogger) is defaulting to Atom feeds now. I think it's a mistake; Atom isn't done, and supporting it this early will simply fragment Atom as effectively as RSS has been fragmented (and we all know how much fun that's been!). Still, the key thing is end users of aggregators - and they don't care. What they want is to be able to subscribe to content, and most aggregators either already support RSS and Atom, or will soon. Google can ship Atom, or RSS, or both - and people won't care so long as they can read the results.