RSS and Atom

Whether you consider the first blogs to be the online journals started around
the time Jorn Barger coined the term "weblog" in 1997, or the "what's new"
pages at
NCSA
and Netscape shortly after the birth of the Web, or the politi-
cal pamphlets of American Revolutionary War times, you have to acknowl-
edge that the concept of blogging is not entirely new. Blogging is just another
word for writing online.
What is new is the widespread adoption of blog technology--newsfeeds and
publishing protocols--on the Web. In the late 1990s, blog software and web
portal developers needed standard data formats to make it easy to syndicate
content on the Web. Thus,
RSS
, Atom, and other
XML
newsfeed formats were
born. They needed standard protocols for publishing to and programming
the Web. Thus,
XML
-
RPC
,
SOAP
, and web services were born.
Now, thanks to the explosion of interest in blogging, podcasting, and