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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Re: RSS, Atom, Feh.
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Mark Bernstein comments on the ongoing Atom/RSS silliness, and points to something new:
Have you noticed how little new syndication software is showing up lately?
It's been my contention all along that Atom is nothing but a tax on aggregator developers; it serves no useful purpose as a syndication format, but does manage to create tons of extra work (with more to come - the spec is only 0.3, and people are implementing). Wait awhile, and we'll have as many versions of Atom - and of the Atom API - as we have of RSS. As crappy as the Blogger and MetaWebLog API are (passwords in the clear) - at least there are only two of them....
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