RSS and podcasting pioneer Dave Winer has a new project, FlickrFan, that’s a platform for uploading and downloading Flickr images. Even more important, though, it’s an attempt to turn your HDTV into a platform that embraces the Internet. Here’s how he explains it: It’s all about pictures… Pictures from your Flickr contacts… High-def pics from [...]

Dave Winer, creator of the RSS 2.0 standard on which podcasting is based, offers some interesting comments on the state of podcasting at his blog: “What if the energy that went into Chumby, for example, went into designing a podcast player? The player might actually look more like Chumby than it does an iPod. The [...]

Dave Winer, who authored the RSS 2.0 spec that podcasting is based upon, thinks that it’s time to turn Twitter into a podcasting platform. “Back in 2001, I wrote a document called Payloads for RSS that explained how you could attach something to a RSS item,” notes Winer. “Today, we may be at a similar [...]

Dave Winer, one of the creators of podcasting, offers his take on the process of syncing that is central to most people’s podcast consumption: Why syncing sucks – I think synching is a bad idea, but Apple’s mobile technology is built around it. I dislike synching. I want my devices to go straight to the [...]

Dave Winer, one of the fathers of podcasting, is calling out video podcasters and vloggers for becoming “everyday papparazzi”: The video cameras are so cheap and so are Internet connections, we’re heading to a place where even the most casual of encounters may be captured and broadcast.I want to just be a normal schlub, sitting [...]

Dave Winer, who created RSS 2.0, one of the standards on which podcasting is based, posted an interesting take today on the popular news feed service Feedburner, warning that there’s “danger in giving so much power to one company.” Feedburner is very popular with podcasters because it can streamline dealing with newsfeeds and offers statistics [...]

Donna Bogatin at Insider Chatter is questioning the importance of Twittergram, podcasting pioneer Dave Winer’s latest concoction. Winer’s unfortunately named Twittergram service (how long until the cease & desist notice is delivered?) is a sort of mashup between Twitter’s short-text message broadcasting and audio podcasting. Here’s how Winer describes a Twittergram: A TwitterGram has a [...]

Dave Winer, who developed one of the standards which podcasting is based on, is excited by the idea of combining audio files with Twitter messages. He calls the combination a “TwitterGram”: The other day I was thinking about other kinds of Twitters. The thing we like about Twitter is that you can’t post a book-length [...]

The BBC has published an interesting story featuring blogging and podcasting pioneer Dave Winer. In the article, one of the topics that Winer touches on is his vision for a better portable media player for listening to podcasts: In order to really work for podcasting, I think a new kind of player needs to have [...]

Blog and podcast pioneer Dave Winer has an interesting take on the future of news: He describes a hypothetical news service where it’s easy to customize the content so that you get the news and information that you’re interested in. By selecting or deselecting checkboxes, you’d determine what news would show up on the page. [...]