30 Years of Blogging
Today is the 30th birthday of Dave Winer’s Scripting News. I’m raising a glass to a guy who’s always had a singular voice and has been a pioneer of so many things taken for granted nowadays — web syndication, podcasting, and (of course) blogging. My first encounter happened decades ago when I network grunt who’d inherited responsibility for keeping the technical side of a technical publishing operational. Winer’s Userland produced a scripting environment, Frontier, that was pretty useful when it came to keeping a bunch of Macintoshes running back in the Classic days.
Over the years, he’s always been a curious mind, and more importantly a doer when it came to designing the plumbing that allowed individual voices to communicate on the net.