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Laguna Seca
Sunday, July 05, 2009 by Dave Winer.
I'm at Laguna Seca raceway today as the guests of Fiat who sponsor Valentino Rossi, a legend in the motorcycling world. 
Rossi's fans are everywhere here. They wear yellow shirts with his number, 46, on them.
They have beautiful girls wearing marketing slogans posting with umbrellas and fans.
2PM: The race has started. It's like a nightmare of speed and sound. Amazing that human beings are on those machines. I have a video to upload. (Someone just wiped out while I was writing that.)
8PM: Here's the set of pictures I uploaded today.
Video shows what the race looked like from the stands.
Valentino Rossi signing autographs before the race.
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Dave Winer, 54, 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.
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