The New York Times Company Investor Relations: "NYTimes.com's RSS feeds generated 5.9 million pageviews on the site in March, which represents a 342% increase year over year and a 39% increase from February's 4.3 million pageviews. The sections that were most popular among RSS feeds included: Washington and Business. The feeds have been available since...
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Google's AdSense ads have started showing up in RSS feeds from a few different publishers. At present, they're just testing the concept, so not many publishers are able to participate, but it sounds like the program will be expanding soon. This will likely lead to more feeds carrying full content, rather than just summaries or...
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Macworld: Feature: Surfing with Safari, Tiger-Style discusses the new RSS and Atom handling features in Apple's Safari web browser. Among other new features, Safari 2.0 enables you to bookmark keyword searches within feeds. It sounds like this release will help raise awareness of RSS and Atom feeds, but it may not yet be feature rich...
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One needn't assume from the title of this post that I'm unhappy with Atom. For the most part, I think the specification is good. But if it were up to me, a few things would be different. That's probably true for everyone in the Working Group, and we probably all have different gripes. Here's my...
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As the details of the Atom format are tuned in preparation for publishing the 1.0 version of the specification, a question that has been touched on before has been raised again: should feeds be required to link to an alternative representation of their data, ie. must each feed carry the same content as an associated...
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When someone publishes an RSS or Atom feed, what are they expecting people to do with it? View it in their feed reader? Display it on their website? Aggregate it with other feeds and republish the results in a new feed? Display an aggregated feed on their website? Some publishers include comments in their feeds...
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Barring the discovery of anything that simply doesn't work, only editorial changes will be made to the latest draft of the Atom specification before it is submitted for review by the entire IETF. One thing that was added to the last draft that might raise a few eyebrows is the requirement for a wrapper <div>...
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Sam Ruby, secretary for the IETF working group that's creating the Atom protocol specification, has scheduled all open proposals for the format for discussion or for closure. With fifteen proposals scheduled for discussion and three for closure, it's a much bigger batch than usual. Is it too much all at once, or are we really...
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"There's a big difference between 'mostly almost ready' and 'all almost ready'." -- Paraphrased from the Princess Bride

After a bit more thought and discussion, I've found there are a few more things I'd like to see in Atom before we call it 1.0. Nothing major, but a few loose ends that we can hopefully...
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Is Atom 1.0 almost ready for prime time? Tim Bray seems to think so. Today, he posted a proposal to the Atom wiki suggesting that we incorporate one more proposal (for a category element), clean up the draft, and submit it. I must admit, I was surprised to see someone make the suggestion, and even...
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