[julik]

I was intrigued by the title of this article and if I remember well Atom was a sensible standard that was quite well defined, but specifically Dave Winer didn't want it to happen because it was not invented by him. I switched all RSS-y stuff I had to develop + all sites I control to Atom long ago, and it pretty much just works.

[AndySylvester01]

See my earlier reply, Atom can support rssCloud through the addition of a cloud element.

[julik]

Yes. Note that you are by far not the first person noticing that collaborating with Dave is... challenging.