It's great to see Marc Canter get the recognition he deserves. It's been a long road for him, a lot of the pundits are put off by Marc's directness, enthusiasm, certainty.
I always listen to people like Marc (there aren't many) because I want to get new ideas, and over the years I've gotten plenty of them from Marc.
Speaking of influential pundits, what's Clay Shirky's problem with Second Life? He seems to be making a career of overhyping how overhyped it is. ";->"
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~About the Author~
Dave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. 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.
"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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