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Scripting News at 30
- Dave Winer's blog turns 30 as he talks about the evolution of content creation on the internet.
- Blogging started as a programming adventure and eventually became a form of literature, says Winer.
- His blog began as a means to test a script he had written which sent emails on his Mac using Eudora.
- Winer is known for his technical achievements, but he attributes his success to listening to users.
- One of those achievements was his role in developing RSS that allows users to keep track of many different websites in a single application.
- Winer is optimistic about the future of blogging and hopes to find a blogosphere buried within WordPress.
- John Gruber notes that Winer's writing voice is distinctive and impossible to imagine in any medium other than the web.
- Winer believes blogging is lost and suggests that people post on their blog instead of social media sites.
- The rise and encroachment of walled garden tech companies like Google and Facebook into the public sphere Tim Berners-Lee imagined is discussed.
- It is noted that tech corporations would be able to algorithmically curate free speech, intensively surveil speakers and mine data for advertising purposes.
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