Re: Motivating Content Producers

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On Aug 17, 2004, at 5:40 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> We need to have a clear idea of what's going to compel people to 
> switch to Atom. I would put forth that the most valuable thing -- from 
> content producers' standpoints -- is predictability of behaviour in 
> aggregators and other consumers, so they *know* how their feed will 
> appear. Not cosmetically, but functionally.

I have three real pain points around RSS:

1. I see way too many dupe articles
2. The markup escaping is too easy to get wrong
3. The APIs are kludgy and have interoperability problems

I think Atom has a chance to make all those pain points go away and 
provide a compelling incentive for content providers to move to Atom.  
Of course, this will only reveal the next set of irritating pain 
points, but that's life.  -Tim