Scripting News: Overheard at last night's party

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Overheard at last night's party

One of the cool things about parties like the one last night is that ideas spread like colds in a kindergarten classroom.

And sometimes product leak, and like the game of telephone we played in kindergarten, are enhanced and tweaked with every telling.

Luckily there's one more party, tonight, on Potrero Hill in San Francisco (a neighborhood made interesting by Marc Canter, many years ago), to transmit and repurpose last night's lies and innuenda. ";->"

Marc, of course, won't be there. He's in Italy, not returning until Gnomedex, which is less than two weeks away. Yet another oppty to mix it up!

Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:01:18 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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