Scripting News: Today's Links

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

Today's Links

CNN: "Millions of White House e-mails may be missing, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino acknowledged Friday."

TechDirt quotes Lorne Michaels, the creator of Saturday Night Live, on YouTube. "If the work is good, I want the most number of people to see it."

TechCrunch is hit with a defamation suit. Rex Hammock, who yesterday reported on yet another defamation suit, has more data on the latest one. It's in the air. Coast to coast.

CNN reports Google buys Doubleclick for $3.1 billion.

From John Feld comes this handy tip. Use Google Maps to plot a course from Berkeley to London. ";->"

Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:00:40 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.

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