Many folks have noted that the stimulus package passed by Congress has some reporting stipulations that specifically require that agencies provide "feeds" of information preferably in Atom 1.0 (although RSS -- no version mentioned -- is acceptable). See appendix one in http://www.recovery.gov/files/Initial%20Recovery%20Act%20Implementing%20Guidance.pdf .
So perhaps we'll have lots of folks wanting to know a bit more about Atom in the near future. I am wondering what the state of documentation is for someone wanting to learn more. A google search turns up AtomEnabled.org, but it still looks to be somewhat out of date. Is that site being maintained? It would certainly be nice also to outline the prefered libraries for creating Atom in Java, Perl, Python, PHP, C#, etc. Anyone have any thoughts on this? While it's nice to see that someone was saavy enough about Atom to include it, in the spirit of "being the change..." and all that, it might be a good opportunity for the Atom community to be proactive in getting help to folks who might need it (and perhaps making a pitch for AtomPub if/when some of these agencies want to establish an API). --peter keane
