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A picture named daveTiny.jpgDave 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.

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

Why black out on Wednesday? Permalink.

The list of sites blacking out on Wednesday is growing. I might do it with my sites, if I understood why.

The most offensive parts of SOPA have been removed. They aren't talking about giving the RIAA and MPAA power to hack DNS in the US.

So what's the message that's meant to be conveyed by a web strike on Wednesday?

# 1/16/2012; 3:24:12 PM.   .

Windows server for a year free on EC2 Permalink.

A picture named fresca.gifAmazon apparently has announced that they will provide free use of a Windows server on Amazon EC2 for a year.

This is a big deal for us because the EC2 for Poets server package runs on Windows on Amazon's system. Now the ability to run a server for a year costs nothing, so there's no barrier for its use in education.

We had asked Amazon to allow students to create servers at no charge so they could learn how to operate their own publishing and editorial infrastructure. I didn't imagine getting this much free server time for students. And of course the offer is open to everyone, not just in education.

This is a huge deal. For example it will be possible for one user to host rivers for a whole company (even a very large one) for one year for nothing. Or publish linkblog feeds for a few hundred users -- all for nothing.

Thanks to Amazon and Microsoft for putting this together.

# 1/16/2012; 9:19:56 AM.   .


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