Dave Winer, who created the RSS standard on which podcasting is based, has introduced a new site, Tech.NewsJunk.com, that’s basically a news aggregator presented in river-of-news format.
Winer explains:
“I created the site because I wasn’t getting enough news about products. It’s that simple. I’m interested in the other stuff too, the finance, trends, parties, puppets — [...]
Podcasting pioneer Dave Winer is working on a new podcast client as part of his FlickrFan project.
FlickrFan is a a platform for uploading and downloading Flickr images and viewing them on an HDTV. Even more important, though, it’s an attempt to turn your HDTV into a platform that embraces the Internet.
Yesterday, he announced a new [...]
The Long Now Foundation has made a decision on the five year old bet between podcasting pioneer Dave Winer and the New York Times’ Martin Nisenholtz:
Long Bets has arrived at a decision for Long Bet #2 between blogger Dave Winer and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times. At stake is US$2000.00 plus half the interest [...]
It looks like podcasting pioneer Dave Winer took issue with Mashable’s rant about their inability to get advertisers interested in their podcast ideas.
Winer also took issue with our response. We said that if you want to podcast professionally, you have to start thinking like a professional podcaster.
“Both sides of this argument are full of shit [...]
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 professional photographers around the world…
Your [...]
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 interesting [...]
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 place [...]
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 cloud, [...]
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 in [...]
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 on [...]