RSS and Atom guru James Holderness just issued a report on the how well namespaces are being handled by feed readers that understand Atom. The results are dismal:
…Matters haven’t improved much since this issue was first discussed nearly two years ago.
… Of the thirty-odd products I tested, ten 2 were incapable of subscribing to [...]

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The RSS Profile is a really helpful document that helps developers use best practices and avoid typical pitfalls when handling or producing RSS feeds.
That said, why isn’t the RSS Advisory Board - the very people who created the profile - following the profile recommendations in their own feeds?
The Feed Validator now produces warnings according to [...]

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Service Burp: Our hosting provider decided we were taking up too many resources and has moved us to a quieter server.    If you couldn’t get to us while DNS was updating, our apologies!   (If you couldn’t take our survey for this reason, please give it another try.)
Full Feeds:  One of our reader survey respondents has [...]

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