From time to time people ask what this site has to do with Scripting News.
I shrug it off, saying "It's just a name."
I don't stop to explain because many people who think in terms of scripting languages think linearly and only in one direction. A site named Scripting News must contain news about scripting, right?
But what if the name describes what the author does when creating the software that manages the site? And further, if he shares that software with other people so that this site becomes a focus of the activity of applying scripting to the area of news?
What would you think about that?
Back in the beginning people would have thought I was out of my mind. ";->"
Scripting news? Why would anyone want to do that.
But today, many years later, news is the subject of much scripting.
So there you have it.
PS: Sometimes when I say the name of site in my own mind it comes out like this: "Scripting Jews." Same logic. ";->"
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.
"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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