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Okay, Atom's Ready

For the (many) people who've been saying "let me know when it's done" in regard to Atom, there's good news: XML.com: Catching Up with the Atom Publishing Protocol is Joe Gregorio's primer now that Atom is an IETF standard.

Want to make the case for why Atom matters? Joe's done a good job right at the beginning of his article:

The Atom Syndication Format is now also known as RFC 4287. Atom is an internet standard in the same way that little things like SMTP and HTTP -- also known as "email" and "the Web," respectively -- are internet standards.
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