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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.

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"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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FYI: You're soaking in it. :-)


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

The new WTC takes its place in the NYC skyline Permalink.

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It's risen quite a bit over the winter. :-)

# 5/12/2011; 4:59:54 PM.   .

12.31 mile ride Permalink.

When I'm riding north and feeling great and thinking maybe I'll just make a dash to the George Washington Bridge, that can only mean one thing.

Tail wind! :-)

And it gets me every damned time.

I was sailing along, mile after mile, feeling no pain and soaring and weaving and rolling along.

A picture named bikesmall.jpgOnce I stopped I could feel it was more than a light breeze. More like a stiff wind.

Needless to say I got some gooood exercise on the ride south! :-)

Feeling great at the end of the ride. Drinking cold water and thinking about what I want for dinner.

Here's the map courtesy of Cyclemeter.

# 5/12/2011; 4:07:21 PM.   .

Web 2.0 must have an expiration date Permalink.

A picture named whatTheWebIs.gifQuick post on another busy programming day...

Someday the pictures you store on Flickr will go the way of videos stored on Google Video.

Somday the text you wrote on Quora will have similar terms and conditions to the ones that Twitpic scared us with.

Someday the stuff you're storing for free in the cloud will not be free. Maybe it's already not free.

It pays to plan for someday.

No time like now. :-)

# 5/12/2011; 4:03:50 PM.   .


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