One product of that contentious debate was the creation of an alternative syndication format, Atom, that began in June 2003.

The Atom syndication format, whose creation was in part motivated by a desire to get a clean start free of the issues surrounding RSS, has been adopted as IETF Proposed Standard RFC 4287.

These figures, however, do not include usage of the rival web feed format Atom.

Technically, Atom should be considered the more advanced syndication format between the two.

Ben Trott, an advocate of the new format that became Atom, believed that RSS had limitations and flaws — such as lack of on-going innovation and its necessity to remain backward compatible — and that there were advantages to a fresh design.

Proponents of the new format formed the IETF Atom Publishing Format and Protocol Workgroup.

The Atom syndication format was published as an IETF proposed standard in RFC 4287 ( December 2005 ), and the Atom Publishing Protocol was published as RFC 5023 ( October 2007 ).

In particular, many blog and wiki sites offer their web feeds in the Atom format.

* Atom ( standard ), an XML-based Web syndication format

The Blogspace description of using web feeds in an aggregator, for example, is headlined " RSS info " and " RSS readers " even though its first sentence makes clear the inclusion of the Atom format: " RSS and Atom files provide news updates from a website in a simple form for your computer.

Atom is a web syndication format developed to address perceived deficiencies with the RSS 2. 0 format.

It supports the major feed formats including RSS / RDF and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in OPML format.

Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel aired independently of each other for the first part of the 1966 – 1967 season: Precious Pupp and The Hillbilly Bears aired as segments on The Atom Ant Show, while Squiddly Diddly and Winsome Witch aired as segments on The Secret Squirrel Show before recombining into the hour-long format in the winter.

Enya was the subject in the song " Pumping Iron for Enya " by Atom and His Package on their 1999 album Making Love.

Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS ( October 23, 1875 – March 23, 1946 ) was an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond ( see his Lewis dot structures and his 1916 paper " The Atom and the Molecule "), his purification of heavy water, his reformulation of chemical thermodynamics in a mathematically rigorous manner accessible to ordinary chemists, his theory of Lewis acids and bases, and his photochemical experiments.

Lyle Talbot was the first actor to portray the character in a live-action film, appearing in the 1950 serial Atom Man vs. Superman.

Garowe Online reported in October that Mohamed Said Atom, an arms-smuggler believed to be allied with Al-Shabaab and who is on U. S. and U. N. security watch-lists, was hiding out in Somaliland after being pursued by the neighboring Puntland region's authorities for his role in targeted assassination attempts against Puntland officials as well as bomb plots.

There, he was called the " Atom Smasher ", and the man who " held the key " to atomic energy.

On 25 August their new EP, Splitting the Atom, was announced.

The novel was adapted into an award-winning 1997 film of the same name by Canadian director Atom Egoyan.

The team initially included Doctor Fate, Hour-Man ( as it was then spelled ), the Spectre and the Sandman, Atom, the Flash, Green Lantern and Hawkman.

She was the driving force, admired by all, she was known affectionately as the ' Little Mother of Liverpool ', also not quite as complimentary-the ' Mighty Atom ' and ' Clever Beggar '.

With his final boxing winnings, Wilde entered into several business schemes, including a Welsh cinema chain and partnership in a cafe at 5 Western Shelter, Barry Island that was named ' The Mighty Atom ' cafe.

* January 1 – Astro Boy ( known as Mighty Atom in Japanese ), Japan's first anime, was launched on Fuji TV.

The Acorn Atom was a home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd from 1980 to 1982 when it was replaced by the BBC Micro ( originally Proton ) and later the Acorn Electron.

The Atom was a progression of the MOS Technology 6502 based machines that the company had been making from 1979.

The Atom was a cut-down Acorn System 3 without a disk drive but with an integral keyboard and cassette tape interface, sold in either kit or complete form.

The bottom kilobyte of memory was used by the CPU for stack storage, by the OS, and by the Atom BASIC for variable storage of the 27 variables.

The upgrade was purely to the programming language ; the Atom's graphics and sound capabilities remained unchanged, and hence, contrary to some pre-release beliefs, the BBC BASIC ROM did not allow Atom users to run commercial BBC Micro software, since nearly all of it took advantage of the BBC machine's advanced graphics and sound hardware.

The manual for the Atom was called Atomic theory and practice.

The Acorn LAN, Econet, was first configured on the Atom.

The front-side bus was used in all of Intel's Atom, Celeron, Pentium, Core 2, and Xeon processor models through about 2008.

Image: Atom Bomb Pit 1 Little Boy a. JPG | The atom bomb pit on Tinian's North Field, where Little Boy was loaded aboard the Enola Gay.

Like Atom Heart Mother, the cover had no writing on it, although in this case it was to protect the bootlegger's anonymity rather than any artistic statement.

The Tomographic Atom Probe ( TAP ), developed by researchers at the University of Rouen in France in 1993, introduced a multichannel timing system and multianode array.

This theory was developed in 1902 by Gilbert N. Lewis and published in 1916 in the famous article " The Atom and the Molecule " and used to account for the phenomenon of valency.

It has developed software for a variety of computer platforms, in chronological order: The Acorn Atom, BBC Micro, Z88, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, Microsoft Windows and Linux.

The Atom was an Aston Martin project developed during World War II.

While RSS and Atom are web syndication methods, with the former being more popular as a syndication method for podcasts, SMIL is potentially useful as a script or playlist that can tie sequential pieces of multimedia together and can then be syndicated through RSS or Atom.

In addition, the combination of multimedia-laden. smil files with RSS or Atom syndication would be useful for accessibility to audio-enabled podcasts by the deaf through Timed Text closed captions, and can also turn multimedia into hypermedia that can be hyperlinked to other linkable audio and video multimedia.

Combining SMIL + VoiceXML or SMIL + MusicXML with RSS or Atom could be useful in the creation of an audible pseudo-podcast with embedded hyperlinks, while combining SMIL + SVG with VoiceXML and / or MusicXML would be useful in the creation of an automatically audio-enabled vector graphics animation with embedded hyperlinks.

( Although other standards such as Atom attempt to correct this limitation, RSS feeds are not aggregated with other content often enough to shift the popularity from RSS to other formats having full namespace support.

This effectively made the orange square with white radio waves the industry standard for RSS and Atom feeds, replacing the large variety of icons and text that had been used previously to identify syndication data.

" The Myth of RSS Compatibility ", an article written in 2004 by RSS critic and Atom advocate Mark Pilgrim, discusses RSS version compatibility issues in more detail.

, the syndic8. com website is indexing 546, 069 total feeds, of which 86, 496 were some dialect of Atom and 438, 102 were some dialect of RSS.

Both RSS and Atom are widely supported in all major consumer feed readers.

RSS has gained widespread distribution through feed reader implementations earlier than Atom, which led to higher popularity.

However, Atom has several advantages over RSS, such as less restrictive licensing, IANA registered MIME type, an XML namespace, support for relative URIs, and Relax NG support.

The following table summarizes those RSS elements that have their equivalents in Atom.

Until Safari 6. 0, it included a built-in web feed aggregator that supported the RSS and Atom standards.

* RSS / Atom feeds

The built-in RSS / Atom reader can also be used as a simple news aggregator.

* Simple List Extensions, proposed as an extension to existing syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom to make it easier for clients to support the ordering and filtering of lists

The two main families of web syndication formats are RSS and Atom.

Types of content syndicated include RSS or Atom Feeds and full content.

* syndication, using RSS or Atom newsfeeds-external newsfeeds can be displayed in a course, and forums, blogs, and other features can be made available to others as newsfeeds.