I've been writing about ways to integrate blogging and news for many years. I keep coming back to it, hoping "now's the time" -- only to find out that it isn't.
Well it appears now is the time. Maybe blogging has matured to the point where it's earned the respect of mainstream press, or maybe they've fallen far enough into the hole created by the Internet that they're giving up some of their assumptions about how news is reported. No matter, people are listening and listening is good.
So I'm going to keep pumping ideas out, and hoping they help bridge the gap.
Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:00:36 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.
"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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