Scripting News: 2/25/2007

Weblog Archive > 2007 > February > 25

Scripting News, the weblog started in 1997 that bootstrapped the blogging revolution.

Dan Farber: Reflections on the first decade of blogging.

Creepy Sleepy: "I know it's over an hour, but if you are an active media consumer, you can't afford not to listen." Thanks!

Tom Forenski says the center of the media industry has moved from NY to Silicon Valley.

Seymour Hersh, writing in the New Yorker, says the US Administration is redirecting its war strategy in the Middle East to undermine Iran, and as a side-effect, bolster al Qaeda.

Earlier today, Boston blogger dim sum, 1PM.

Last update: Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 7:15 PM Pacific.

Dave Winer, 51, 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.

"Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time.

"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.

Dave Winer

Comment on today's
Scripting News

Jan Mar

Things to revisit:
1. Microsoft patent acid test.
2. What is a weblog?
3. Advertising R.I.P.
4. How to embrace & extend.
5. Bubble Burst 2.0.
6. This I Believe.
7. Most RSS readers are wrong.
8. Who is Phil Jones?

Teller: "To discover is not merely to encounter, but to comprehend and reveal, to apprehend something new and true and deliver it to the world."