About the author

Dave Winer, 55, 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 New York City.

“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.

Contact me

scriptingnews1mail at gmail dot com.

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DaveRiver

Droidie

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Frontier News

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Leon Winer

Links

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NY Times River

OPML Editor

opml.org

Outliners.com

Protoblogger

ReallySimpleSyndication

Realtime RSS

Rebooting the News

River2

RSS spec

rssCloud

Tech River

Unberkeley

WikiRiver

XML-RPC

Recent stories

1.	Email with Brewster.
2.	One great thing about WikiLeaks.
3.	Request for feeds: News orgs with WikiLeaks feeds.
4.	A Web Trust to publish and store our creative work.
5.	The Paywall may be journalism’s Maginot Line.
6.	How to tame a Linux server?
7.	Moon missions.
8.	The Worldwide Web User’s Manual.
9.	How to set up Apache on Windows.
10.	Change in my JSONP approach.
11.	New views of my river.
12.	My JSONP River of News.
13.	JSONP questions.
14.	Are we starting a full-out war on the Internet?
15.	How Protoblogger.com works.

Twitter links

My 40 most-recent Twitter links, ranked by number of clicks.

1.	5 Torrent Files That Broke Mind Boggling Records.	torrentfreak 1276
2.	Scripting News: Twitter Places? Hello. Is this new??	scripting 1030
3.	What It’s Like to Work at Apple.	aol 942
4.	The Cleverest Ways to Use Dropbox That You’re Not Using.	lifehacker 910
5.	RockMelt Unveils a Web Browser for the Facebook Era.	nytimes 819
6.	@gruber –	scripting 753
7.	Scripting News: How Obama could have avoided the shellacking.	scripting 650
8.	Scripting News: Whitehouse.gov should be a hyperlocal blog.	scripting 649
9.	It’s okay that Tom Brokaw doesn’t get Twitter.	rexblog 587
10.	Scripting News: Watch a billion dollars come online overnight.	scripting 578
11.	First Look at RockMelt, a Browser Built For Facebook Freaks.	webmonkey 573
12.	What are those hashtags at the end of paragraphs?	rexblog 566
13.	Tea Party voters remember that we live in a banana republic, next time you vote to make the rich even richer.	nytimes 553
14.	Amazon Opens The Door For An Apple Newspaper Store.	businessinsider 539
15.	Is Rand Paul Already Selling Out?	nationalreview 503
16.	Very true: “We don’t want complexity, but don’t know how to value simplicity.”	techcrunch 501
17.	Olbermann’s Replacement?	wsj 451
18.	Dvorak: “Dead links are the one thing about cloud services that I have not yet complained about.”	pcmag 447
19.	LimeWire Resurrected By Secret Dev Team.	torrentfreak 437
20.	Timing your startup.	cdixon 435
21.	Settled: this was the best [Berkeley] sunset ever.	berkeleyside 435
22.	Before YouTube, QuickTime ruled. Maybe that’s why Apple is trying to crush Flash.	scripting 430
23.	First impressions using Rockmelt in Facebook. It’s a browser with a few extras.	facebook 416
24.	Kindle version of new Stephen King anthology costs more than hardcover version.	amazon 401
25.	Full Hacker News database for download (posts, comments, points, date, username).	ycombinator 384
26.	Scripting News: Unbundle our archaic cable TV system.	scripting 370
27.	Scripting News: My Hacker News firehose.	scripting 365
28.	G.O.P. Plans to Use Purse Strings to Fight Health Law.	nytimes 360
29.	Bill Campbell on Coaching RockMelt and Google v. Apple.	nytimes 358
30.	New York City Marathon course map.	ingnycmarathon 353
31.	Rebooting the News #71 starts in 8 minutes.	blogtalkradio 352
32.	Rebooting the News #71. ONA, White House blogger, View From Nowhere, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Madow, Rock Melt.	rebootnews 320
33.	Film shoot on Bowery this Wednesday. #eastvillage	flickr 311
34.	Looking for a “firehose” feed from Hacker News.	ycombinator 298
35.	banana pancakes, veselka.	flickr 263
36.	Dan Gillmor’s report on the meeting at the Library of Congress re archiving our blogs.	salon 242
37.	How NYU Plans To Expand In The Village and Why Residents Are So Mad.	nyulocal 124
38.	NYU Carter Journalism Institute Accepting Applications for “The Reporting Award” Interest.	nyu 104
39.	Nadie Se Conoce: Sundown on Avenue A.	blogspot 100
40.	@randomdeanna @minorjive — those are called “OPML Reading Lists” –	scripting 43

My bike

People are always asking about my bike.

Here’s a picture.

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