Random stufffff
Monday, July 28, 2008 by Dave Winer.
Via Doc Searls, Google runs a registrar, without the gunked-up cross-selling choked process of other registrars. I've gotta try this out, I'll transfer one of my domains there. 
I added VMWare Fusion to my Amazon wishlist last night, just as a reminder to myself, and this morning got an offer for a review unit from a product manager there. I accepted, of course. It'll make it much easier for me to prepare the Windows version of the OPML Editor, and of course I will write about it here, exactly as if I had paid for it. (I installed the Beta of v2.0.)
It's really cool that Amazon wishlist items are reflected on FriendFeed.
Wasn't last night's season premiere of Mad Men fantastic!
Fred Wilson thinks blog comments should make it on TechMeme. It's true that some comments are better than many blog posts, and I check TechMeme several times a day, but I'm hoping we escape the grips of centralized thinking and remember that what made blogs work was that everyone gets their own platform to speak their mind. TechMeme takes us back to the place that didn't work, where everyone fights for scarce attention. Aside from that, as Wilson notes, TM has made its mind up about us, relative to others, and what's important, vs what's not. (To which I add we're the sentient beings, and TM is a piece of software. What irony that we care what something that is incapable of thought thinks. We'll wait a long time for recognition that way!)
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"The protoblogger." - NY Times.
"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.
One of BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web. "Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time.
"The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC.
"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.
Dave Winer, 53, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.
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