Dave Winer, 56, is a software developer 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.

scriptingnews1mail at gmail dot com.

Twitter

40 Links

Changes

DaveRiver

Droidie

East Village

EC2 for Poets

Frontier News

Great VaVaVoom

Leon Winer

Linkblog/Tumblr

Listings

NY Times River

OPML Editor

opml.org

Outliners.com

Photos (Flickr)

Protoblogger

ReallySimpleSyndication

Realtime RSS

Rebooting the News

River2

RSS spec

rssCloud

Tech River

Tech Without Borders

Unberkeley

WikiRiver

XML-RPC

My 40 most-recent links, ranked by number of clicks.

People are always asking about my bike.

Here's a picture.

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