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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 and NYU, 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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I've been puzzling over this for years. How to bootstrap the process of collaborative outlining on the web. I think I've got step one down the road. A way to do web-based discussions that hang off a stream of consciousness. It's a way to collect and organize a set of tweet-size items, and allow people to easy add short comments, and see what others had to say. It allows you to link together a set of simple idea-size chunks and edit the organization. And when you reorg, the comments go with. I really hope people use this because the next steps are going to be real interesting, but we need users to get there. So come be a user. All you have know is how to use Disqus. No software to install. (Yet.)
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6/4/2012; 5:13:56 PM.
