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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 by Dave Winer.
On my cross-country drive I listened to several audio books. The best one was also the shortest -- Kurt Vonnegut's Man Without a Country. I bet Vonnegut would have been an excellent blogger. 
He was 82 when he wrote it. A lifelong smoker. When a young person blames him for the horrible shape of the world he says "But I just got here!" He has a way of expressing complex ideas so simply and he touches exactly the spot that needs touching. What a nice way of saying life is too short.
At birth, he'd offer: "Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. ItÕs hot in the summer and cold in the winter. ItÕs round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, youÕve got about a hundred years here. ThereÕs only one rule that I know of, babies -- God damn it, youÕve got to be kind."
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Dave Winer, 54, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He 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.
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