RE: The Great RSS vs. Atom News Feed Debate

Jeff,

Thanks for pointing us to this great post. One observation. You say, "There
are many news aggregator programs and web site services that work with RSS,
but very few will read Atom at the moment." You mention BottomFeeder as one
that will work with Atom. 

According to the Atom site, a number of newsreaders are compatible. It lists
the following: NewsMonster, NewsGator, FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, MacroMedia
Central, NewzCrawler, BottomFeeder, Shrook, Feeds on Feeds, Bloglines,
WinRSS and Pears. You can find the list of compatible newsreaders here:
http://www.atomenabled.org/everyone/atomenabled/index.php?c=5. 

You can read Blogger's answer to why it chose Atom over RSS here:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=697. 

-- Bob Ambrogi
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Robert J. Ambrogi, Esq.
Rockport, MA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Beard [mailto:jjbeard-sxCt/[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:04 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [NetLawyers] The Great RSS vs. Atom News Feed Debate
> 
> 
> First, let me add my thanks for a great week on search engine 
> savvy.  I learned much, and It's great content like this that 
> attracts and retains a phenomenal group of people to this list.
> 
> Speaking of content, for some time I've been keeping an eye 
> on a new RSS news feed spec called Atom.  CNET News just 
> posted another story on it, given that Google's Blogger 
> division has just dropped RSS support and is exclusively 
> supporting Atom in its new blogging software.  Seeing as a 
> fair number of list members are also bloggers, I decided to 
> comment on these developments and describe in plain English 
> why this is important.
> 
> If you're interested, the post is entitled "The Great RSS vs. 
> Atom Content Syndication Debate" and is now available online 
> at LawTech Guru, at:
> 
http://www.lawtechguru.com/archives/2004/02/13_the_great_rss_vs_atom_news_fe
ed_debate.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/2dg2b

I hope you find it useful, and I'm curious to hear what other bloggers are
doing in this regard.

Jeff

Jeff Beard
Legal Technology Consultant
Milwaukee, WI
jjbeard-sxCt/[email protected]
www.lawtechguru.com



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