Dave Winer

Dave Winer, author of Scripting News; "It's a weblog about scripting and stuff like that."

Dave Winer is one of the pioneers of the online weblogging community. He has been a major force behind the embracing of "blogging" in the journalistic communities, and can be attributed the success of weblogs. He is also a contributor to the XML based online protocol SOAP.

As such a powerful figure, he is the subject of much trolling and mockery, particularly by sites such as WinerLog mostly provoked by his poorly thought out arguments on popular weblog discussion sites such as BlogRoots, and his generally thin skin, which frequently embroils him in flamewars.

External links

• http://davenet.userland.com/
• http://www.scripting.com/
• http://newhome.weblogs.com/historyOfWeblogs
• http://winerlog.inspiredsites.net/
• http://www.blogroots.com/