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


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

The Angry Bird Party Theme Song Permalink.

If we ever get the Angry Bird Party going, this could be the theme song.

The walk-on music.

Imagine we're singing it at rallies! :-)

Our new National Anthem.

Uncle! I joined Google-Plus Permalink.

Not entirely happy about this, but I re-joined Google Plus today.

Here's my thinking.

A picture named fatladysinging.gif1. Do you, Dave, think you will ever join Google-Plus? If so, why not join sooner than later. You'll get more followers this way. And in the future you'll be able to talk about the good old days on Google-Plus and how all the noob's suck.

2. How many times in the future will you feel like resigning in protest because of some nasty shit Google did? Many times.

3. So why not get it over with and resign now, before you even start? Seems that would save a lot of trouble.

4. Will you want to push links to Google-Plus the same way you do through Twitter now? Probably.

5. Do you think they'll have an API? Yes. They say they will.

6. Do you expect to be able to work with it? Probably. I was able to support OAuth on Twitter, after much pain and suffering.

7. Do you think Google could come up with something more convoluted and hard to implement? Of course! They're Google. They can be more anything than anyone. Esp when it comes to freezing out developers they don't like.

8. Isn't it a bit paranoid to think they might dislike you over there at Google? Well, no. As a matter of fact. They are infinitely capable of silly shit like that, in my experience. And they hired Chris Messina. :-)

9. WTF.

You can follow me if you want.

Ain't makin no promises. :-)

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DaveCast #10 -- The Angry Bird Party? Permalink.

A rambly podcast about Abraham Lincoln, science fiction, Mike McConnell, David Frum, politics, Democrats and Republicans, birds and pigs. Permalink.

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