Happy 10, Dave!
Dave Winer has been blogging for 10 years now. Dave was the inspiration for my blog, and even the guy who coined the word “blog” admits that he was following in Dave’s footsteps.
Dave is also well-known for pioneering podcasting, a topic he’s going to talk about at this year’s MIX conference.
What many people don’t know is that Dave’s work with blogging and podcasting are just manifestations of an overall philosophy about the web. The web is meant to be one gigantic CMS where anyone can participate and collaborate in publishing semi-structured content. Dave’s
“OPML Editor” is the tool that unifies blogging, podcasting, web publishing, and web-based outlining.
I’ve been using the OMPL Editor as my outliner for 7 years now (before it was called “OPML Editor”). I use it to keep track of things, and to organize my thoughts when writing whitepapers or my recent thinkweek paper. I prefer the clean and structured UI. I spent a lot of time porting the UI to AJAX, back before the word ‘AJAX’ was coined, and I expect to see implementations of the UI in WPF/e. WPF/e’s flow-based UI language makes it perfect for things like this.
(For anyone currently trying to run OPML Editor on Vista; I have been running it on Vista for about a year, but I don’t use the advanced features. Some quirks are still being worked out.)