Today's linksSunday, February 24, 2008 by Dave Winer. Bijan says content synching is a mess. How to make plants talk... with Twitter! Andrew Sullivan sings his goodbye song to the Clintons. The Dems are playing hardball with McC! Lovin it. New Gallup national poll, Obama 47, Clinton 46. More test posts coming, adding new features to my new toy. Just made a few changes so this is just a test. Please ignore. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) on This Week, making a lot of sense about Cuba. Frank Rich's scathing postmortem of the Clinton campaign. |
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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