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'''Dave Winer''' (b. ], ] in ], ], USA) is an ] software developer and entrepreneur in ], California. A pioneer in the areas of ]<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=3
|title=Blogging and the Wisdom of Crowds
|author=Tim O'Reilly
|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates
|date=September 30, 2005
|accessdate=2007-01-29}}</ref>, ], ]<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/OPML</ref>, outliners, and the ] API. He is also the author of , one of the first ], established in 1997<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://news.com.com/2008-1082-985714.html
|title=Newsmaker: Blogging comes to Harvard
|author=Paul Festa
|publisher=]
|date=February 25, 2003
|accessdate=2007-01-25}}</ref>, he is both an evangelist of RSS as "Really Simple Syndication" and the first to implement the feed "]" feature, one of several necessary ingredients for ]ing at the time it first emerged<ref name="itworld_podcasting">{{cite news |url=http://www.itworld.com/Tech/3494/nls_ecommercepodcast041027/ |title=Podcasting: The latest buzz |publisher=ITworld.com |date=] ] |accessdate=2007-01-25}}</ref>. He's also the founder of the software companies ] and ], and a former contributing editor at ] Magazine and research fellow at ].

==Education==
Winer was born in ], ], and graduated from the ] in 1972.<ref>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dave/cv</ref> Winer received a ] in ] from ] in ] in 1976. In 1978 he received a MS in ] from the ].

==Employment==
In 1979 Dave Winer became an employee of Personal Software. In 1981 he left to found Living Videotext, which created early ] programs ThinkTank, Ready and MORE 1.1 for Apple II, IBM PC and Macintosh computers. In 1988 he founded ] and was CEO until 2003.<ref>http://www.userland.com/stories/storyReader$170</ref> He was a contributing editor at Wired Magazine from 1994-1996.<ref>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.05/winer_pr.html</ref> In 2002 he was named one of the "Top Ten Technology Innovators" by ]<ref>http://www.infoworld.com/articles/fe/xml/02/03/04/020304fewiner.html</ref>.

===Years at UserLand===
{{main|UserLand Software}}

In 1987 Winer sold Living Videotext to ]<ref>http://www.scripting.com/2004/05/17.html</ref> and purchased a large home in ] (next to ])<ref>http://archive.scripting.com/2003/03/30#When:3:44:02AM</ref> and founded ].

In 1994 Winer began publishing his personal column DaveNet, and in April 1997 founded the weblog Scripting News, although the word "weblog" was not coined at that time. The focus on blogging influenced the development of Userland online publishing products, with Winer enthusiastically promoting and experimenting with new features on his blog and website. During this period, Winer also, along with ], developed the protocol ], which led to the creation of ], which he co-authored along with ], ], and ] at ].

The ] can be traced back to earlier resource-description formats like ], ], and ]. In 1997, Dave Winer designed and announced his own XML syndication format for use on his ] weblog.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://davenet.scripting.com/1997/12/15/scriptingNewsInXML |title=Scripting News in XML |author=Winer, Dave |date=] |publisher=] |accessdate=2006-10-31 }}</ref> (Similar work was also being done elsewhere--for more detail of work by others see the main article on ].)

By December, 2000, competing dialects of ] available included several varieties of ]'s RSS, Dave Winer's RSS 0.92, and an RDF-based RSS 1.0.

Userland was the first to add an "enclosure" tag in its RSS, modifying its blog software and its aggregator so that bloggers could easily link to an audio file. (See ] for information about podcasting and RSS, as well as the work of many other people in early audioblogging and ]ing.)

Winer and Userland continued to develop the branch of the RSS fork originating from their RSS 0.92, releasing in 2002 a version called RSS 2.0. .

Winer's evangelism for web sydication in general and RSS 2.0 in particular convinced many news media organizations to syndicate their news content in that format. <ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.com.com/2100-1032-993344.html |title=Old data update tool gains new converts |publisher=CNET News |date=] ] |accessdate=2007-01-26}}</ref> For example, in early 2002, the ] entered an agreement with Userland to syndicate many of their articles in RSS 2.0 format. <ref>{{cite news |url=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=105317&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=593901 |title=NYTimes.com Expands Its RSS Feeds to 27 Categories |publisher=New York Times (press release) |date=] ] |accessdate=2007-01-26}}</ref>

In June 2002 Winer had ] to prevent a heart attack. Afterwards, he quit smoking and left his job as CEO of UserLand, although he maintained ownership of the firm and control of ], kept blogging, and kept promoting RSS.

===Berkman Fellow at Harvard===
Winer spent one year as a resident fellow at the ]'s ] where he worked on using weblogs in education. While there, he launched the community using UserLand software, and held the first ] conferences. Winer's fellowship ended in June 2004.

==Projects and activities==
===Podcasting===
{{main|History of podcasting}}
] ] - Using special "sound" and "video" tags in ] Feeds to link to specific file types was proposed in ] in a draft by ]. <ref>Louis, Tristan, ]. ''''</ref> The related, and more general tag for "enclosures" was implemented by Dave Winer, a software developer and an author of the ], one of two formats called RSS based on the RSS 0.91 format written at ]<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/RSS_%28file_format%29#Working_groups_and_Boards</ref>. Winer had discussed the concept, also in October 2000, with ]<ref>Curry, Adam, ] ; server discontinued by Userland, late 2005.</ref>, a user of his software, and had received other customer requests for ] features. Winer included the new functionality in RSS 0.92<ref>Winer, Dave, ] ''''</ref>, by defining a new element<ref>Winer, Dave, ] ''Scripting News: ''</ref> called "enclosure"<ref>Winer, Dave, ] ''''; and ] ''.''</ref>, which would simply pass the address of a media file to the RSS aggregator.

], ] - Winer demonstrated the RSS enclosure feature by enclosing a ] song in his weblog.<ref>Winer, Dave, ] ''Scripting News: ''</ref>.

For its first two years, the enclosure element had relatively few users and many developers simply avoided using it. Winer's company incorporated the new feature in its weblogging product, ], the program favored by ], audioblogger ] and others. Since ] had a built-in aggregator, it provided both the "send" and "receive" components of what was then called ]<ref>Curry, Adam, ] ''UserNum 1014: ''</ref><ref>Gilchrist, Harold ] ''Audioblog/Mobileblogging News </ref>. All that was needed for "podcasting" was a way to automatically move audio files from Radio Userland's download folder to an audio player (either software or hardware) -- along with enough compelling audio to make such automation worth the trouble.

Winer also has an occasional podcast, Morning Coffee Notes. His podcast has featured guests such as ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and others.<ref>http://morningcoffeenotes.com/</ref><ref>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dave/cv</ref>

=== BloggerCon ===
{{main|BloggerCon}}
BloggerCon is a user-focused conference for the blogger community. BloggerCon I (October 2003) and II (April 2004), were organized by Dave Winer and friends at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society in Cambridge, Mass.

===Weblogs.com===
{{main|Weblogs.com}}
After leaving Userland, Winer continued to maintain the domain weblogs.com, which provided a free ] used by most ] applications, as well as free hosting to many early bloggers. In mid-June 2004, he temporarily shut down free blog-hosting services there, without any notice, citing server and personal problems. After originally promising to get the blogs back up and running within a two-week period, he was able to restore them much faster thanks to help from ]. According to ''Wired Magazine'', <ref>http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63953,00.html</ref>, "What was decried as the death of a blog universe when Dave Winer shut down free blog host Weblogs.com turned out to be little more than a four-day server outage surrounded by a heck of a flame war."

In October, 2005, ] bought the Weblogs.com ] from Winer, promising that services currently free there would still be free. The ]ing-related web site audio.weblogs.com was also included in the $2.3 million deal <ref>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1868270,00.asp</ref>.

A later collaboration between Winer and Cadenhead, though, ended less happily. Winer had paid Cadenhead $5,000 to code improvements for another of Winer's projects, "Share Your OPML." (The site helped bloggers to make public and syndicate their ]s using ], an ] tool developed at Radio Userland during Winer's years there.) Disagreement between the two escalated into a (blogged) confrontation which ended in 2006 with Cadenhead's keeping the $5,000 but abandoning all claim to the disputed code. <ref>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/1,72396-0.html</ref>

==Relationship to the public==
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], a co-inventor of ], wrote on his blog "Dave Winer has done a tremendous amount of work on RSS and invented important parts of it and deserves a huge amount of credit for getting us as far as we have. However, just looking around, I observe that there are many people and organizations who seem unable to maintain a good working relationship with Dave."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/06/23/SamsPie|title=I Like Pie|accessdate=2007-01-26|date=2003-06-23|work=ongoing|first=Tim|last=Bray|authorlink=Tim Bray}}</ref> ], who has had a rocky relationship with Dave for many years with regards to the technology conferences Tim organizes, says that Dave "can be a great contributor, but he can also decide, for no apparent reason, that someone is somehow on 'the other side,' at which point he becomes disruptive and abusive." <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2000/winer_0900.html|title=Excluding Winer|work=Ask Tim|accessdate=2007-01-26|first=Tim|last=O'Reilly|authorlink=Tim O'Reilly|date=2000-09}}</ref>

Others speak of Winer with admiration and affection. "Dave is one of my favorite sources of information and opinion on the Web. His opinions are passionately held, well-informed, intelligent, argumentative, and quite often wrong," quipped ] author ]. <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.05/winer.html|title=Almost Famous|last=Cone|first=Edward|accessdate=2007-01-26|date=2001-05|work=Wired}}</ref> '']'' co-author ], a long-time friend of Dave Winer, expressed his sense of indebtedness in some detail: "When they scroll the credits of my life, Dave's is going to be one of the first names on the list. And when they scroll the credits for ], ], writing, ], journalism, ], ], ], ]ing and a pile of other technologies, standards and practices we will all eventually take for granted, the same will be true for those as well." <ref>{{cite web|url=http://doc.weblogs.com/2005/10/07#aPostOfThanks|last=Searls|first=Doc|work=The Doc Searls Weblog|date=2005-10-07|accessdate=2007-01-26|title=A post of thanks...|authorlink=Doc Searls}}</ref>

After a public confrontation with entrepreneur ] at the ] conference in August 2007, Winer resigned from the panel of experts for the TechCrunch20 conference organized by Calacanis. Winer interrupted Calacanis' speech during the event, deriding it as "conference spam" and igniting a war of words on their blogs. "I'm not interested in having someone berate me like this," Calacanis wrote on his blog. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/08/gnomedex-afterm.html|work=Wired News|date=2007-08-14|accessdate=2007-08-15|title=Gnomedex Aftermath: Dave Winer Dropped From TechCrunch20}}</ref>

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