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by James Robertson.
Original Post: not losing any sleep....
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Gordon thinks I'm losing sleep over Atom (or whatever name it gets next :) ). Nah, I just find the level of effort being expended over it to be kind of silly. RSS is just fine for a syndication format - what we really need is a better posting/querying format for remote access/admin to blogs. That's part of Atom - but like many engineering efforts, it's gone far afield and decided to create a "perfect" standard for blogs. Perfect illustration of how the perfect is the enemy of the good enough over and over again in software. RSS is good enough. Add a useful standard for post/edit/update (etc) and hey, we would have something useful. Instead, we'll have two syndication formats (anyone who thinks RSS/RDF will disappear is naive - it has too much momentum now) - and one possibly useful edit/update/post format for one of the two. Yeah, that's useful - creating forks such that developers have to support the union is always a great idea.
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