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« Podcasting Gets Sirius | Main | Top 10 Podcasts for April: Battle for Top is Tight »Podfather Dave Winer Turns 50; Still Diggin'May 02, 2005Iconoclast, developer and pioneer podcaster Dave Winer turned 50 today. Winer created RSS 2.0, the standard upon which podcasting is built. The standard includes support for enclosures, allowing MP3 files and other types of files to be referenced by items within a newsfeed. Though podcasting did not take off until 2004, Winer had implemented enclosures as early as 2001. Winer named this new facility "payloads". Unfortunately, the term "payload" is associated with tractor trailers, warheads and viruses. As a result, his innovation failed to capture the public's imagination, dooming it to three years of obscurity. In addition to his work on the RSS specification, Winer helped create one of the pioneering podcasts, Morning Coffee Notes. Before he got involved with podcasting, Winer had already managed to own a software company, create a scripting language, pioneer blogging, contribute to Wired magazine, invent a few web standards, score the sweet Weblogs.com domain, be a Harvard Fellow (capital 'F'), and earn a reputation as being "blunt and thin-skinned". Gen X slackers take note. CommentsAll hail Dave Winer, whose name is NOT mentioned in the popular press, and without whom none of this would possibly exist. His 4/30/05 "Thunderstorm Edition" of MCN is heartbreaking and true. Posted by: Dave Shepherd at May 3, 2005 04:47 AM Yeah, isn't it mind-boggling, if you think about how different our online lives would be, if there were no RSS feeds? No podcasts? Sheesh. Posted by: elis at May 3, 2005 12:11 PM All hail! Posted by: Jeff Tidwell at May 3, 2005 05:25 PM Post a comment |
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