Scripting News: Celebrating 10 years

Scripting News, the weblog started in 1997 that bootstrapped the blogging revolution.

Celebrating 10 years

I've now got an idea how to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Scripting News, on April 1, just 38 days from now. It came to me after I got a note from a dear friend, Tori, who lives in Texas, who I haven't seen in (too many) years. She explained: "I was just catching up on your blog and saw the post about your surgery. Dude. I'm glad you're ok. I got goose bumps reading about Dave Jacobs' project. You and your friends change the world."

Now there's so much value in this email, for me.

First, I had no idea that Tori was reading my blog.

Second, it reminded me that Dave Jacobs is an amazing guy.

Third, it reminded me that I have amazing friends.

And fourth, and most important, it suggested that there may be people I haven't heard from in a long time who stay current with me through this site. Which is cool, but...

I want to know how they're doing! Too. ";->"

What's up. Had any kids? What have you learned lately? How's your health? The family? What are you thinking about these days. Been to any good parties? Gotten in trouble? (I hope.)

This connected up with a discussion I have been having with Sylvia, and with the Bloghers, Elisa, Jory and Lisa. I want everyone to write something, let's create a document on the 10-year anniversary of Scripting News, about anything that occurs to you that might in any way, no matter how loosely, relate to SN, blogging, surgery, Dave, podcasting, coral reefs and sunken ships, RSS, outlines, desktop art, thank you money, my friends -- whatever you think is important that might belong in a time-capsule-like document attached to this blog.

Sylvia tells me there is a name for something like this: festschrift. Of course there's a Wikipedia page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festschrift

To me, this would be the perfect commemoration, the ideal way to party in the ScriptingNews-o-Sphere.

What do you think?

Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:00:31 PM

~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.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.

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.

Mail: scriptingnews1mail at gmail dot com.

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