Sam Ruby's Atom Specification Slides Now Available
Sam Ruby has
posted some slides detailing the ins and outs of the Atom specification. Personally, I like Atom a lot more than
RSS because it's very explicit about its requirements. I've toyed with writing weblogging software (both server and client implementations), but the number one thing that always stopped me from continuing my work was the mess of "standards" that exist in the weblogging world. RSS vs. Atom is all about the syndication, but what I'm interested in seeing is a new standard drafted around the publishing aspects of a weblog. Metaweblog API, for lack of a better description, sucks. Does it work? Yes, but, contrary to some people's opinions, that's just not enough.
Echo is one API that is looking to change that though.
FYI, you can pretty much keep up on all things Atom/Echo by frequenting the
AtomWiki.