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rhizome on May 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I will always love RSS

I've been using RSS for ~10 years and I still don't know why I would choose Atom over RSS or RSS 2.0 or whatever.

simonw on May 6, 2012 [–]

Because it's possible to represent the characters >, < and & in the title of an item in an Atom feed.

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