East coast snow picsMonday, January 14, 2008 by Dave Winer. It's snowing in Boston (where else?). Here are some pictures from my friends on Twitter. CKelly in Cambridge, MA. Brad Searles in Allston, MA. Colin Grady found these pics, unknown location. Ethan Bodnar has snow pics from Connecticut. Corey Goldberg from Back Bay, Boston. Heh. It's snowing in Italy too. If you have snow pictures or stories, please post a comment below. |
Dave Winer, 53, 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 Berkeley, California. "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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