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Another way RSS works

Friday, July 24, 2009 by Dave Winer.

JY Stervinou had a great idea today. Permalink to this paragraph

He started by posing a question... Permalink to this paragraph

"If a decentralized microblog is represented by an RSS feed, how to represent the microblog avatar?" Permalink to this paragraph

Ahhhhh... Permalink to this paragraph

There is already a tag for this. Permalink to this paragraph

I added an <image> to both of my test feedsPermalink to this paragraph

Great work JY!! Permalink to this paragraph




 
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A picture named dave.jpgDave 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.

"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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