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Learning from the fire of 1991
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 by Dave Winer.
Fires are on the minds of Californians, esp ones who live in the hills, like the ones in Berkeley and Oakland. 
In 1991 these hills burned. I watched the fire, safely, from a friends' deck on Potrero Hill. It seemed far away, but now I live here.
In the RTN podcast on Monday I asked Doc Searls if we could learn from the fires in Southern California.
Today, on InBerkeley, I ask if there are any old-timers who were here during the fire of 1991 who would share what they learned.
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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.
"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.
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