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 title and 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 story [...]

 

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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 built-in wi-fi, [...]

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.
In other [...]

Dave Winer, one of the inventors of podcasting, is questioning the mainstream media coverage of podcasting startup Odeo and its founder, Evan Williams.
Not work-safe…..

Podcast pioneer Dave Winer, who wrote the RSS 2.0 standard on which podcast distribution is built, has started building what he describes as a “community podcasting directory.”
Winer intends to recreate iPodder.org (now IndiePodder.org), one of the earliest podcast directories. iPodder’s architecture was unique, because it was a distributed directory built on Outline Processor Markup Language [...]

Pioneering blogger and podcaster Dave Winer is confirming the rumor we reported on yesterday - that Andrew Baron had chosen the hottest woman on the planet as the next Rocketboom host.”Andrew Baron confirmed via email this evening that the new interim host of RocketBoom is former MTV vj Joanne Colan,” said Winer. “He says that [...]

At the 2006 Gnomedex conference, Dave Winer gave a short talk on his ideas on communication, technology, creativity and making money.

He brought up two main themes: that the Internet is leading to the end of “monoculture”; and that making money on the Internet will depend on interaction with users, aggregating user desire and building what [...]

Hundreds of podcasters, bloggers, vloggers and tech enthusiasts are gathered in Seattle, WA for Gnomedex, being held June 29 to July 1. The conference is described as “a confluence of leading bloggers and new media.”
Conference discussion leaders will include Senator/podcaster John Edwards, pioneering podcaster Dave Winer, Internet marketing guru Steve Rubel, Make’s Phil Torrone, tech [...]

State of Washington Governor Christine O. Gregoire has declared today, Friday June 30 & Saturday July 1 as RSS Days. At the Gnomedex opening session, RSS creator Dave Winer and podcasting pioneer was on hand to read the governor’s declaration.

“Now, therefore I, Christine O. Gregroire, Governor of the state of Washington, do hereby [...]