Re: [syndication] Top 10 Reasons Why RSS Rules

[Ben Hammersley <ben@benhammersley.com>]

On 17 Dec 2003, at 02:25, Mark Fletcher wrote:

> Roger B. wrote:
>
> > They're worth solving, and are actually easily solved with a profile 
> > like
> > RSS 2.0 for Aggregators. (RSS2A)
> >
> > If Brent, Dare, Luke, the Newzcrawler team, Nick Bradbury, and so on 
> > will
> > just lock themselves in a virtual room and decide what they expect to 
> > see in
> > each RSS 2.0 element, I will rewrite my code to accomodate them. So 
> > will
> > lots of other folks. We need the aggregator folks to step up and take 
> > the
> > debate away from people whose opinions don't really matter all that 
> > much in
> > the first place, self included.
> Bloglines will be supporting the Atom format. We don't have a choice.
> Blogger will only be publishing Atom feeds for their blogs.

Is that the API, or the feed format? Beware here: the two are very very 
different. Blogger supporting the API is one thing; publishing all of 
their blogs in the Atom syndication format is quite another.

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