Scripting News: Thanks to CNET & Apple

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

Thanks to CNET & Apple

Thanks to CNET for the boost for nytimesriver, and thanks to Apple for putting the focus on mobile news sites. We're getting much more flow today, in one day, than we did in the last three months. Awesome. That's the power fo both CNET & Apple.

This is, imho, the best way to read news on a mobile device. And the Times produces so much great news. The iPhone and the Times were made for each other.

BTW, when you see the little speaker icon, that's a podcast. When you click, the audio plays. Works great on an iPhone. Think about how rational and futuristic that is.

And of course nytimesriver runs great on any mobile device, it was originally developed for my Blackberry. ";->"

Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:01:09 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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