I'm writing this on Monday afternoon from Pisa, but the notes are from my brief two-day visit to Rome.
The wifi at the Hotel Plaza, provided by Telecom Italia, flaked out mid-day Sunday, so I couldn't upload pictures from Rome, or any of the notes I took. They appear in today's Scripting News, but they were recorded yesterday.
The wifi in Pisa appears to be great. ";->"
Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:00:50 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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