A shout out to wish Dave Winer a happy 50th birthday. Congrats man.
Dave’s work has influenced the course of the entire web a great deal over the years. His advocacy of the read/write web, and building of tools to make it happen, were pivotal. I cited Dave as an influence in an interview I had with Ed Cone. IMHO, you can say he was a large part in helping bootstrap what is becoming known as Web 2.0.
If you’re reading this Dave – I hope you have a great day – and thanks again.
That’s the declaration that Tom Coates of BBC radio makes.
Two of the best voices on the subject, who did not get quoted, are Shelley Powers and Roland Tanglao.
Trackbacks extend conversation and bridge communities. Go read and help think of viable alternatives.
Go Wayback machine 🙂 Chicago Tribune: September 7th 1999: She has seen the future, and it’s weblogs
Official BitTorrent Home Page – simple client and docs.
The Poor Man’s Tivo – great intro to BitTorrent
infoAnarchy’s Wiki – overall reference
TheRegister’s BitTorrent analysis
Azureus – Java based, generally recognized best client
Blog Torrent – simple tool for hosting .torrent files.
BitTorrent for Blogs – Jeremy Bowers post on RSS and BitTorrent.
Top 10 Bittorrent Sites – BitTorrent search engines.
Not directly related:
ITConversations – technologist radio show podcasts.
BlogBridge – Java WebStart RSS reader.
Related: Wired: The New Old Journalism: “it’s not the medium, it’s the reporter.”
Related: Microsoft Small Business: How to make money from your blog: “Many of the people who write blogs today simply want to share their opinion on something. But then there are the business-minded folks, who have found a way to use blogs, or Web logs, to bring in a little extra cash too.”
Rafe gets an answer to a tricky MySQL scenario. I’m sharing the linkage here since I ran into a similar problem just a few hours after he posted the answer. Timing is everything.
Get the details here.
I’m going to need to check this out: Java PathFinder at Sourceforge. You can check out other NASA open source projects here. via Slashdot.
Not only is BlogBridge a nice desktop RSS reader, but it has a server component to it that allows you to synchronize across machines. The desktop/server combo offers some interesting possibilities for the future. BlogBridge – home is also a nice example of a good looking and fast Swing app.