Definition: A XML-based format used to publish syndicated datafeeds of work that is frequently updated. Google news feeds are based on Atom, rather than RSS. Most aggregators accept feeds in both Atom and RSS formats, and the same orange and white symbol is used to represent each.
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The standard button used to represent a datafeed.
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