Atom feed for Advogato
Regarding Advogato, Steven writes (in comments for an article):
I got a little carried away yesterday and decided to add support a few more feed formats than I'd originally intended. Zaitcev's feed uses Atom (thanks for volunteering as a test subject, by the way!), so that's first on the list. A few other people have set up a feeds too, so I have sample data for the common RSS formats (v0.91 and v2.0). And one feed was in the somewhat more complicated RDF Site Summary format (aka RSS v1.0). Looks like all of them will work out okay so far. After parsing all these formats, I can see why Atom is becoming so popular.
Since I'm only a kernel monkey, I'm utterly ignorant about the merits of Atom. I subscribed my Advogato feed to Atom because Siebermann wrote once:
The difference between Atom and RSS is that Atom has a real specification, one good enough that people actually write to it. So I can use the specification to write a useful feed generator [...].
See:
http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/dwiki/N
http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/t
http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/w