Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Well, the world seems to be moving forward. We no longer have to use such geeky terms as RSS and Atom. Products such as IE 7, FireFox, MSN Spaces, live.com etc are all using the terminology: Feed and Subscribe to Feed. I figured this was a good time to go through and fix up dasBlog to align with the new direction.
In the next update, dasBlog templates all display a single feed icon from http://www.feedicons.com. The icon links to your site's RSS 2.0 document using the FEED URI.
What does that mean for Atom? Still there. CDF? Still there... but who cares really. Aggregtors support both Atom and RSS and the dasBlog RSS 2.0 feed is more "feature rich" than the Atom feed. Anyway, subscribing to one vs the other has Zero material impact on your aggregator.
So, in this brave new world the user should not have to care. When they visit your dasBlog site using IE 7 or FireFox the browsers alert the user that this site has a Feed using the feed icon. If you click the Feed icon that appears on the web site it will launch your default aggregator and subscribe to the feed.