ATOM

As of today, Sacred Cow Tipping officially supports ATOM as our official way to get syndication to our readers. We cannot officially support this political quagmire known as RSS. While the url is the same, our syndicated feed is now an ATOM feed. We did this over at the old blog and should have continued doing so when we moved over here.

Of course, some of you might wonder WTF is Syndication?

This entry was posted by sacredcowtipping on Wednesday, March 15th, 2006 at 7:30 pm. It is filed under Geeks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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  1. While I don’t advocate chosing a feed format based on personalities, I do advocate having your autodiscovery link tags match in your html. At the moment, the “title” and “type” attributes are incorrect on the second link. Given that both feeds are currently the same, there probably isn’t a need for both links.

  2. Thanks for the visit, Sam. A while back, on my old weblog, I went with ATOM because I could see it’s growth and really liked moving away from something highly political…when it shouldn’t have been. I don’t even want anything associated with RSS. I got away from that when I setup this blog, mainly trying to be more non-politcal, but recent events made me reconsider keeping RSS as a default.

  3. I’ve come to the same conclusion, but not because I care about Winer (except in the sense of waiting for him to go away like he keeps promising). I just cannot see supporting a format with several glaring problems and no apparent path to repair.

    Several pundits are punditing away that RSS 2 has so much penetration that it’s here to stay — I’m no expert but I’m not buying it. The big players rolled out RSS 2 feeds pretty quick once the syndication bandwagon got rolling and I see no reason they can’t do the same with ATOM. It’s only a matter of time before some enterprising geek buried deep in the bowels of some massive media conglomerate feels the same way that you and I do.

    These silly public flame wars have made it pretty clear that the folks guarding the gates to RSS are incapable of managing a lunch meeting. Their advisory board has more cast changes than Survivor, more politics than a Bush Supreme Court appointment and more mudslinging than a kindergarten play date. This whole thing feels like the cliched, “We had to burn the village to save it,” policy. Scorched earth tends to lie fallow.

    Personalities matter when they prevent a broken ‘standard’ from being fixed — what sane businessman would have anything to do with these clowns?