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Dave 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.
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Does Google-Plus have feeds? 
If so, I'd love to see some of them and see what it would take to hook their output into our input.
And btw, here are my main feeds:
1. My blog.
2. My linkblog.
3. Photos.
It would be interesting to see if there's a way to hook those into Google-Plus.
And here are the feeds I subscribe to. And the river that generates from that collection of feeds.
Reserve currency
I don't think people appreciate how much our way of life is subsidized by the fact that the dollar is the reserve currency. Once that's gone, and a default will kill that for good, we're hosed.
As is the rest of the world. People are so hungry for a safe place to park their money they're willing to loan it to the United States for virtually no interest.
Once that option is gone, where will they go for safety? There really is no other place to go.
The President and the Republicans keep likening our economy to a family. Tightening your belts in hard times, and all.
Well, if you like that analogy, it's as if our family is in the bagel business, and we don't even know it. And we're about to store a bunch of used Porta-Pottty's in the same place we make the bagels. What do you think that'll do for the family business??
