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A picture named daveTiny.jpgDave Winer, 56, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and editor of the Scripting News weblog. He 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 New York City.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

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

"Dave was in a hurry. He had big ideas." -- Harvard.

"Dave Winer is one of the most important figures in the evolution of online media." -- Nieman Journalism Lab.

10 inventors of Internet technologies you may not have heard of. -- Royal Pingdom.

One of BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

"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.

8/2/11: Who I Am.

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Dave Winer's weblog, started in April 1997, bootstrapped the blogging revolution.

links.scripting.com update Permalink.

Part of me thinks links.scripting.com should be on the home page.

It's a damn fine little site, that's been going since April last year, but only got rendered for the first time a couple of days ago.

Wonder what other little gems are sitting out there undiscovered! :-)

BTW, it now updates shortly after I post a new link to Twitter.

And there's an RSS feed you can subscribe to.

Still diggin!

Another boring ride (but that's exciting) Permalink.

I'm afraid my ride diary is going to be pretty boring most of the time, now that I've found my standard ride.

1. Get on the Hudson River Greenway heading north.

2. Ride nonstop to 94th St, just after the over-water stretech.

3. Get off the bike and sit on a bench, watch the world go by, take a photo or video.

4. Get on the Hudson River Greenway heading south.

5. Get off at 10th St and head home.

Roundtrip is 9.67 miles, it takes almost exactly 1 hour.

Looks like that's the daily ride.

Twitter let me opt-out of your suggestions Permalink.

A picture named whotofollow.gifA few weeks ago Twitter added a section to their home page with recommendations of people and companies to follow. I've never really liked it, although I was willing to give it a try after it became clear it was algorithmic. But now that I've given it a try I'd like to opt out of it.

I find it distracting and tiring. The names don't change unless I click the X next to them, and I feel bad about that, because the people didn't do anything to get me to so dislike them. It's Twitter using their names, without their permission. I shudder at the thought of how many people are similarly irritated by my name in their right margin. Who is this Dave Winer guy and when will he stop begging for me to follow him. Thing is, I'm not begging, Twitter is doing the begging.

I'd prefer if they would leave me out of this whole thing, on both sides.

A simple setting that says I have enough followers so please no more recommendations. And another that says that I don't want to appear as an ad in someone else's right margin.

Please.



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