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A pioneer in the areas of RSS as "Really Simple Syndication", XML-RPC, OPML, outliners, and the MetaWeblog API, he is also the author of Scripting News, one of
by ryanwaggoner 18y ago
A pioneer in the areas of RSS as "Really Simple Syndication", XML-RPC, OPML, outliners, and the MetaWeblog API, he is also the author of Scripting News, one of the oldest weblogs, established in 1997. He is generally credited with the exposition of RSS as "Really Simple Syndication", now a world-wide phenomenon, and the first to implement the feed "enclosure" feature, one of several necessary ingredients for podcasting at the time it first emerged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer
- rms 18y agoHe's right up there with Aaron Swartz.
- numair 18y agoIt's more than that, though. If you were around in the 90s, you'd know that Scripting News was, like, THE weblog. Everyone read it. Bill Gates famously read it, along with lots of other people in the tech world. Winer's writing was very, very influential in the Netscape era. In essence, a lot of today's tech pundits are basically trying to recapture what Winer had back in the day -- just like so many entrepreneurs are attempting to re-live the soda-drinking, pizza-eating, 24-year-old-with-an-IPO lifestyle of Marc Andreesen. I wish some of the people on here who don't have historical context wouldn't be so insulting and dismissive of people they know little about, aside from what others have told them. It doesn't make you look smart and snarky -- it makes you look young, naïve, and at least slightly arrogant. (And this is coming from an arrogant 24 year old, so ya know.)
- dotcoma 18y agoyou're right. but someone please tell Dave Winer he can do 140 character posts with wordpress, too ;)