Doug Kaye

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 by Dave Winer.

I had a nice lunch on Monday here in Berkeley with Doug Kaye. It had been too long.  

I learned a lot about Doug that I didn't know before. I thought he was a tech guy, turns out he's a film and audio guy who learned tech out of necessity. No wonder his stuff is so useful. 

I first met Doug when he was an early member of the Radio developer community. Come to think of it, that's how I met most of the people who went on to do great things in blogging, podcasting, and Web 2.0 in general.  

Doug recommended a movie, Memento, saying it was one of the ten best movies of all time. I had never even heard of it. Of course, with that kind of endorsement, I had to see it, and I now have. Very good, really haunting. I bet Doug likes it because it is a technical marvel, I'm not a movie technology guy, but even I could see that putting this movie together required greatness. I rated it a B+ on Yahoo. (Also you have to see it twice to get all that's going on.)