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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.

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

Obama can't make it personal Permalink.

A picture named president.jpgWatching his press conference, he needs to say to the camera to the American people "Help me out here. Call your Congressman and ask him please let's get the debt ceiling cleared so I can get you your Social Security Check."

On the other hand, he has been listening to Lakoff at least a bit, acting as the stern disciplined father.

It's time for him to close the deal with the voters. He's missing it.

Google Toolbar and Firefox Permalink.

It seems Google reacted to the new plan of Mozilla's more or less the same way I did.

People overlook that it costs developers to re-test their apps every time the platform changes.

Possibly Google looked at what it would take to keep up with Mozilla and decided it wasn't worth it.

Yet another feed for moi Permalink.

I already have too many feeds. Here's another.

http://static.reallysimple.org/worldoutline/dave/rss.xml

In this feed you will get updates of all my development work as it progresses. Usually two or three notes per day.

A subset of my worknotes, in RSS form, derived from OPML.

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The future of following Permalink.

I was having lunch yesterday with Jon Glick of Sulia.

Smart guy. We always have interesting conversations.

One thing we talked about, at the end of the lunch, was the future of following.

A picture named boxFrontier.gifI follow someone on Twitter, when they post to Tumblr or GooglePlus I should be seeing that as well as when they post to Twitter or whatever new place they want to post to next week. The whole Circles thing just highlights how boring it is every time you want to startup somewhere new, informing them and your friends that you're here and figuring out what to do with them.

I have a list of feeds on my Google Profile. Seems they could match that up to users. It seems a search engine could do that.

They also have this verification process for my sites, so they know scripting.com really is mine. I've proven it to them.

Revisiting the same problems every few years ought to make things better. Being into open data doesn't mean just exporting yours, but being willing to import mine. If I use a common-enough format.

Just some random ideas that haven't yet formed into something specific yet.



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