Five minute lightning talk on the Atom web feed syndication standard, for Simmons College GSLIS course LIS469: XML.

1. Atom
Web Syndication of Tomorrow
A lightning talk by Bill Helman
http://twitter.com/@thinkpol
for Simmons GSLIS lis469
10, April 2010.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vatsug/1098895920/

2. Anatomy of a
well formed log entry
• In 2002 Sam Ruby
started the
discussion that
would become the
Atom standard by
2005.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/92366800@N00/6541204/

3. Why a whole new standard?
•RSS is a closed,
proprietary, standard
that has been frozen to
“promote stability”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/4210464265/

4. Some key differences
•Atom is open, native
in XML, more flexible,
and has better
encryption and
aggregation than RSS.
(+more.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37753256@N08/

5. Kleenex : facial tissue :: RSS : syndication
•RSS is so
ubiquitous that
it, and it’s logo,
have come to
mean web
syndication
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anniferrr/4473854085/

6. Atom: in the wild
• Google, Twitter, and many
others use a version of Atom.
You may not even know a site
does since it may just display
the RSS name/logo.
http://www.identi.ca/thinkpol
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21148821@N02/2057325287/

9. re:sources
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