Dancing About Architecture

So if you're thinking about syndicating your content, should you care which "syndication format" you support? At this point, I'd have to say "not really", because there's no meaningful difference in the feature sets of the various formats for the majority of content producers out there.

That doesn't mean it's always going to stay that way as clients and publishers become more sophisticated (iTunes reader anyone?), but for now this article by Dare (who also did the nice character encoding article the other day and is active in the Atom syntax community) gives some pragmatic advice to publishers considering which formats to support.

Wouldn't it be nice if you as a publisher could be "future-proofed" against these format wars?

Source: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Mr. Safe's Guide to the RSS vs. ATOM debate