Past, Present, and Future of Web Publishing
by Patrick Havens
Dave started with a history.
Take technology and go with it, where it takes you as a user.
How he got started with blogging. The first blog was actually Tim Berners-Lee’s the very first website at http://info.cern.com. He was working on a project for Wired, A day of democracy, and he was chronologically posting information. And he liked the idea, and thought he should return to that.
And he came up with the idea for RSS because he felt a need, and though he had to fight for the idea because “it shouldn’t work.”
Mailing Lists work up to a point. But sooner or later it flames out.
He deliberately hid the comments so he has the single voice. And that way he doesn’t get the criticism. He thinks a blog doesn’t need the ability to have comments. Most everyone else disagreed.
He talks about long form blogging verses micro-blogging. He asked who did link-blogging… and then talked about his love of Twitter.
The What’s New Pages from the early Internet wher forms of Link Blogs.
2004 he donated the RSS 2.0 spec and changed the license, so that no company would own it.
The writers of yesterday would be the bloggers of today.
What should you do to Future Safe blogs. There are products out there that people thought would be around forever. What about years from now.
Even Steinbeck’s works may disappear, but what do you migrate too.
Archive.com would be better served owned by a University.
As a computer guy, he always thinks about computer storage. Paper might be better, but can you imagine the amount of space.
Find a Competitor and and make sure you can export and import in. Yes since WordPress 2.1 you’ve been able to export. And he was impressed you could transfer from site to site that way.
Its important that there is more then one source for information.
He loves Twitter’s API… He says look at Twitter’s API and copy and expand on it.
The API for Facebook is not very good, in his mind.
What he wants to do is have the info, but then be able to create the pages.
July 24th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
[...] of lunch, or perhaps my personal taste. But the next presentation from Dave Winer called the Past, Present, and Future of Web Publishing just didn’t do me. Mind he did make some decent points about the survivability of knowledge [...]
July 29th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Personally I too thought he posed some interesting questions about how in the digital age will blogs and others forms of information or knowledge survive. Moreover there was an interesting back and forth over “Facebook”.com between Dave and various attendees. Probably just me , but I am not too keen on “Twitter”. Best 25 dollars I’ve in awhile as they overdelivered(two lunches, a t-shirt, lots of swag, bottled water and not a clinker in the speakers department