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feed stats

just for the sake of getting this out there...now that i've been tracking my feed stats with FeedBurner for a few weeks...i can see which feeds are being consumed by whom pretty easily.

i've offered at least 3 versions of feeds for awhile now, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom... and my usage is as follows:

RSS 1.0 30%
RSS 2.0 64%
Atom 4 %
Others 2 %

politically, i don't really care which of these formats ends up winning...it will be up to the clients (RSS Readers) to decide which versions to support, and the format that makes it easiest for RSS Readers to move beyond the 3-pane display and deal with things like the i-tunes namespace (like apple has), photo feed namespaces (like textamerica has), etc.

as i'm leading up the charge here in developing mobile readers for J2ME, BREW, etc for some of our solutions it's something i'll need to look at closely from a product management standpoint as to what will sell software and service. that probably means multi-standard support for now - but i hope it shakes out in the near future.

from an objective standpoint - from initial conversations i've had, the blogging engines want to support Atom (in addition to RSS )because of its 2-way support for posting to weblogs, but corporate publishers seem like they will just stick with RSS 2.0 because of stats like mine...it's what they're readers are using so if they ever hope to monetize their feeds they're just going to stick with what is working.

interesting.