perhaps this will help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29#Atom_compared_to_RSS_2.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29#Atom_compar.

perhaps this will help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29#Atom_compared_to_RSS_2.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28standard%29#Atom_compar... but the most important, for me, is that Atom is a group effort under the IETF rather than an ad-hoc spec in one person's head. All other benefits are the result of that.