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MP3s in Scripting News Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Fred Wilson sends a pointer to playtagger.

"Include this tiny javascript in your HTML, and your mp3 links will automatically become playable right on the page."

Let's test it!

A Christmas song for Doc Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A picture named doc.jpgI was reading David Weinberger's beautiful testimonial to growing older, on the occasion of Doc's 60th birthday, which is today!

I thought the best birthday present I could give Doc is the sound of beautiful music on Scripting News. And what song? Dr Dave helped me there. He wrote a gorgeous piece about John Lennon, that brought me tears of gratitude for a life that still continues inspire, even though it was cut short by an act of lunacy.

John Lennon's So This is Christmas isn't strictly a birthday song, but it works anyway.

So Doc, you're an old fart for sure, but I love you dearly, and am glad your heart is healthy and you still have your sense of humor!

Big hugs, your pal, Dave

Enough Fresca?? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Enough Fresca??

Marie Carnes: "I love Fresca ice cubes."

A sure sign someone has switched to Mac Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Chris Pirillo: "The box said Requires Windows 95 or better. So I installed OS X."

      

Last update: Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 11:06 PM Pacific.

Dave Winer, 52, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.

"Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time.

"The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC.

"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.

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Things to revisit:

1.Microsoft patent acid test.
2.What is a weblog?
3.Advertising R.I.P.
4.How to embrace & extend.
5.Bubble Burst 2.0.
6.This I Believe.
7.Most RSS readers are wrong.
8.Who is Phil Jones?
9.Send them away.
10.Negotiate with users.
11.Preserving ideas.
12.Empire of the Air.
13.NPR speech.
14.Russo & Hale.
15.Trouble at the Chronicle.
15.RSS 2.0.
16.Checkbox News.
17.Spreadsheet calls over the Internet.
18.Twitter as coral reef.
19.Mobs of the blogosphere.
20.Advice for Campaigns.
21.Social Cameras.
22.The Next Big Thing.
23.It's time to open up networking, again.
24.Am I competing?

Teller: "To discover is not merely to encounter, but to comprehend and reveal, to apprehend something new and true and deliver it to the world."

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