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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.

Foley and Zuccotti today Permalink.

I had a meeting downtown this evening, so I took a detour and visited the occupation at Foley Square on my way.

Then walked to Zuccotti Park.

The scale of what's going on at Zuccotti is still huge. Foley is a quieter affair.

Three pictures from Foley.

Two pictures from Zuccotti.

And a video showing how chaotic things still are at Zuccotti.

Yet another feed of mine! Permalink.

I might have more feeds than anyone you know.

Or not...

Here's another one.

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

It contains my worknotes, and when I write a new howto, it will have a pointer to that as well.

This is a good one to follow in Google Reader, or whatever you use to follow feeds.

It's basically a feed of the new documents I've created as part of my world outline.

This is the third movement of my new software symphony.

The other two being: minimal blogging tool and river of news.

Enjoy! :-)

Occupying Permalink.

A picture named tree.jpgCall me Johnny Bloggerseed because, when I see a story with a Natural-Born Blogger in the middle of it, I am unrelenting. I don't take no for an answer. Just ask Doc Searls, an NBB if there ever was one. And ask Josh Whalen, one of the OWS occupants, and a longtime member of our community here on Scripting News.

Josh has a blog post ready for almost anything having to do with NYC, bike riding, the East Village, and the unfortunate state of our system. He's a smart guy. I wish he would blog. Not as a spokesperson for OWS, rather as a person inside it, so those of us who are outside would have a story to relate to.

Humans are the story species. We need one to grasp onto something in order to even think about it. I was a math major in college, and that's thinking without a story. Hard to do. But I loved computers because there is a story about every bit of code, and the apps they form.

Anyway, I'm rambling. As is my right. :-)

I read somewhere that OWS should declare victory and become whatever it was meant to be next. I've felt the same way for a while, but wanted to be very careful about saying anything. Not my place really. But now I think it's time to start considering how the story plays out from here.

Occupying is a state of mind. We have learned a lot about that in the last two months. We need to occupy our lives, most important of all. Think about what we're doing with them, both individually and collectively. Really occupy our space.

That means insisting on something better than the lesser of two evils.

Not accepting that the entertainment business owns our intellectual and creative lives.

Seeing the creativity and value of the expression of everyone who wants to be part. All NBB's welcome.

If the OWS people feel any disappointment now, we know what it feels like, all of us. But it pushed us in the right way, and gave us a new beginning. Now let's think about what we want to do with that new beginning.

Just some thoughts. For now! :-)



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