#Dave Winer

[elodiedreams]

Hat tip to Dave Winer @ scripting.com

[protoslacker]

It's still true that the new, good internet will require a movement to overcome the collective action problems and the legal barriers to disenshittifying things. Almost nothing you do as an individual is going to make a difference. But using RSS will! Using RSS to follow the stuff that matters to you will have an immediate, profoundly beneficial impact on your own digital life – and it will appreciably, irreversibly nudge the whole internet towards a better state.

Cory Doctorow. Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024)

I'm such a nincompoop when it comes to the Internet, and there's no excuse for it. I do use an RSS reader, The Old Reader, but I'm not very smart about it. This article informed me I could be a lot smarter.

There's an important history to RSS. And that reminded me that I didn't post anything about Dave Winer's 30th blogging aniversery. Dave Winer is someone to follow for expanding imagination about moving the internet toward a better state. If you don't have an RSS Reader, and decide to get one, consider adding for Cory Doctrow's feed and Dave Winer's right off the bat.

[thejaymo]

Enchanted Knowledge Objects in LLM UI

When we drop a document—a PDF, say—into an LLM’s context window, the document has a kind of gravity. It pulls and pushes the model toward certain ideas contained in the text, reshaping its context landscape and responses based on the content. Because I’m so sword and sorcery pilled, the word that comes to mind is that Knowledge Objects are a kind of Talisman – objects imbued with specific powers and properties that can be intentionally wielded to amplify the will of its user. 

[cpoetter]

Dave Winer loves the old Web. me, too

[younes-ben-amara]

ما شركة غوغل إلا ضيفٌ على الشابكة؛ مثلنا جميعًا؛ ولا يحقّ للضيف أن يشترط - دَيْف واينر (Dave Winer)

ما هذه المجموعة من المختارات تسألني؟ إنّها عددٌ من أعداد نشرة “صيد الشابكة” اِعرف أكثر عن النشرة هنا: ما هي نشرة “صيد الشابكة” ما مصادرها، وما غرضها؛ وما معنى الشابكة أصلًا؟! 🎣🌐هل تعرف ما هي صيد الشابكة وتطالعها بانتظام؟ اِدعم استمرارية النشرة بطرق شتى من هنا: 💲 طرق دعم نشرة صيد الشابكة. 🎣🌐 صيد الشابكة العدد #164 السلام عليكم؛ مرحبًا وبسم الله؛ بخصوص العنوان فهو موجود في أحد الانتقاءات في قسم…

[phillogbook]

Freshblog è il mio blog in salsa "Dave Winer" (Scripting News) che maggiormente somiglia a un blog del 1999. Ci trovate essenzialmente dei ritagli dal web che ritengo significativi. Insomma, una specie di newsletter in forma di blog.

[mitchipedia]

Flipboard’s Surf joins several existing apps designed to view Mastodon and other ActivityPub platforms, as well as BlueSky and ActivityPub.1 I love Flipboard CEO Mike MkCue’s vision of the “social web,” as described by David Pierce at The Verge with feeds superseding websites.

“You won’t put in, like, theverge.com and go to the website for The Verge, but you can put in ‘the verge’ and go to the ActivityPub feed for The Verge.” Your Threads timeline is a feed; every Bluesky Starter Pack is a feed; every creator you follow is just producing a feed of content.

Surf’s job, in that world, is to help you discover and explore all those feeds.

I have tried Tapestry and Reeder, which have a similar philosophy of combining feeds from multiple sources and platforms into a single place. I found those apps not quite ready for me to use regularly, but I love the promise of that direction.

It’s what Dave Winer calls Textcasting and I’m eager to see it mature.

Surf also joins several apps named “Surf” or “Surfed.” ↩︎

[bea-lele-carmen]

In the Sixties, the hippies used to say, "Never trust anyone over 30."

"Don't trust anyone over 30" ( Nowadays it's be carefull of the bad influence of gen X and some gen Z pro lgbtq disorder )

By Dave Winer on Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 12:02 PM.

When I was a kid, and definitely under 30, the hippies had a slogan that you shouldn't trust anyone over 30. This was called the generation gap. Maybe some historian or sociologist can explain it. I just remember people saying it and not understanding.  

I could think of specific people over 30 that you coudn't trust. People I had seen betray young people because they were young and couldn't defend themselves. When you're a kid you're tuned into this. I guess the question is what do you plan to do about it when you become an adult. Will you be better, or will you seek r ? Or just forget about it. 

And here we are again.  

[fahrni]

Hearing folks calling a YouTube video a Podcast is weird.

Being a blogger at the time the Podcast was created forms my opinion about what a podcast is. I believe it’s all about audio. I’d love to know how Dave Winer and Adam Curry define it.

[andyrush]

Scripting News: The web lives in WordPress and Mastodon

I agree with everything that Dave Winer says here, except the part about WordPress not knowing what they have – I think they actually do. Anyway, let the dawning of the day where we take back control of our writing begin!

Scripting News: The web lives in WordPress and Mastodon

Like I said the other day, I doubt if Automattic knows what they have. I seriously doubt it. But in a few years, we’re going to look back on this as the moment when Twitter stopped controlling our writing, as they have since 2006.

[lostprotocol]

Jorn Barger and Dave Winer

[protoslacker]

It will be possible to create better teachers out of ChatGPT tech. What led me to that is that it certainly could help people write better bug reports. It would have far more patience than a busy developer, whose job is to fix bugs, not decypher a user's (justifiably) imprecise understanding of how software works. But a chatbot could help, patiently asking the user questions. Then, of course, over time -- the user would learn how to do it themselves, and get this -- they would also learn how software works. There might be some great programmers out there who don't know they are. 😄

Dave Winer at Scripting News

[thejaymo]

In July 2003, two fellows at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, journalist Christopher Lydon and software engineer Dave Winer, sat down for an interview together. This gave way to arguably the very first modern podcast. This gave way to arguably the very first modern podcast.

Think Faster, Listen Faster: The Podcast Renaissance

[joshuawithers]

What is podcasting

Dave Winer’s 2004 definition of podcasting is what I think podcasting is:

Think how a desktop aggregator works. You subscribe to a set of feeds, and then can easily view the new stuff from all of the feeds together, or each feed separately. Podcasting works the same way, with one exception. Instead of reading the new content on a computer screen, you listen to the new content on an iPod or iPod-like device. Think of your iPod as having a set of subscriptions that are checked regularly for updates. Today there are a limited number of programs available this way. The format used is RSS 2.0 with enclosures. In the future, radio shows like All Things Considered and Rush Limbaugh will be available in this manner, and perhaps other syndication formats will support enclosures.

But I feel like mainstream culture imagines a podcast is a group of people sitting in a room with headphones on and it’s watched via TikTok or Reels.

Which, I’m not going to lie, is quite confronting for a nerd like me who really enjoys his traditional podcasting.