DeWitt Clinton has a long, and thoughtful, post on RSS and Atom today. If you’re a geek/developer it’s worth reading and thinking about. Thanks to Niall for linking me to it.

It’s interesting that the Atom side of the fence hasn’t done what it takes to get the world to flip over to its format: build both a publishing tool and an aggregator that demonstrates Atom’s advantages over RSS.

Users don’t care about specs, or arguments about formats. When you understand that you’ll understand how RSS got so big in the first place. Dave Winer evangelized RSS by building a publishing tool (Manila and later Radio UserLand) and an aggregator (Radio UserLand and later Share Your OPML.

Where’s the Atom publishing tool and aggregator that demonstrates Atom’s superiority?