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February 12, 2004

Dave Winer, RSS vs Atom - sometimes he forgets we don't really care

Tony Gentle makes a pretty compelling argument but he is only half right.

We don't care unless it is inconvenient. People with ATOM feeds can't be read consistently in my newsreader (Feeddemon), so thats not convenient at all, and I don't need or want to get into a debate about whether the problem is with the newsreader or the standard. I don't trust the new ATOM standard, and author Nick Bradbury is very clear that any feed will work if it is "well-formed". Nick has enough credibility with me and the user commmunity, that his opinion is credible.

His potshots in the "comments section of Gilmours blog, about Winer are personal and apparently missing an important point.

So, yes we do care, and it will take the geek community to figure this out, or we will all lose a major benefits of blogs, through seamless feeds.

February 12, 2004 at 12:19 PM in @ My Views @, Blogging & feeds | Permalink | TrackBack (16) | Top of page | Blog Home