Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds?

Question

...instead of using the Atom syndication format?

Atom is a well-defined, general-purpose XML syndication format. RSS is fractured into four different versions. All the m

Answer 1

I think RSS has a better marketable name :-) RSS is something easy to say, serious-sounding, and virtually senseless. Really sounds like a silver-bullet technology. "Atom" word has sense, but hardly there are a lot of people associating this with some cosmic hi-tech, more usual associations are students, high-school physics, communists' weaponsm hypeware "web 2.0". A very small qty of people out there really corellate it with what it really is and why has it got it's name - an atomic-precise descriptive structured knowledge representation framework. If I say "RSS" in non-IT-pro crowd I've got a very good chance to be instantly understood what I mean today, but if I say "Atom" - hardly anyone will get it any of that fast and clear. RSS is de-facto a name for syndication feeds. That's why think it can be a good idea to label it RSS while technically giving 100% Atom and only Atom - software does not care oat's drawn on a button and end-users will get what they've meant to get. IMHO.