Scripting News: Today's links

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

Today's links

NY Times pumps Pownce.

An idea of what it's like to have a neighbor who, on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, has a construction crew tearing out their foundation.

Lifehacker on timelines from RSS feeds.

Fred Wilson is staying with Facebook, not declaring bankruptcy. Me, I never accepted it as a liability. Jason Calacanis gave up yesterday.

Nice thing about Twitter is that unlike Facebook, it doesn't demand anything of you. I like that.

Doc Searls turns 60 tomorrow. Heard it on Twitter.

Rex Hammock: "Facebook is a sandbox I'm playing in -- but it has a long way to go before it can hope to be the world I live in."

Barry Bonds hit a home run last night, and is one away from tying the record.

NPR piece on MP3 blogs. Next time I want to share a song with readers of this blog, I think I'm going to do it.

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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