Picture of the dayThursday, June 12, 2008 by Dave Winer. Now remind me, how many trillions have we borrowed to install and prop up the guy on the right? And what were we told about people who talk to the guy on the left? (And they're doing more than talking, aren't they?) Ask Bush or Lieberman what they see here. What's the prize for "winning" in Iraq? It's like a Rorschach test. Put a thought balloon over Ahmadinejad's head. What's he thinking? |
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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