I agree with Tim Bray (via Eric Garrido (via Bill de hÓra)). USB is an awesome standard because it “just works.” Ever debugged a USB stick?

A big step towards making RSS as clean and efficient is to drop the old, crusty RSS flavors and just use Atom. That’s what OGC has been doing more and more, and that’s why this site advertises only an Atom feed, even though it uses Wordpress and could easily advertise more.

Joe Gregorio notes in The end of the AtomPub WG that the Atom Publishing Format and Protocol WG (atompub) in the Application Area has concluded. Developers can go into full programming mode knowing that the encodings and interfaces aren’t changing any time soon. Thanks AtomPub WG for a great standard.