Dave Winer turned fifty on April 30, 2005. He is the author of the Scripting News weblog which started on April 1, 1997. Doc Searls notes that Mr. Winer is humbly requesting links for his birthday. So here is your present Mr. Winer. Not that he needs a link -- Scripting News is already in the top ten on Technorati. That's not a bad idea to request links for your birthday. A 2003 News.com article has more about Dave Winer:
Before becoming blogging guru to the academic elite, Winer founded and was chief executive of Millbrae, Calif.-based UserLand Software, which specializes in content-publishing tools and services. He wrote or contributed to a number of relevant specifications, including SOAP, XML-RPC, RSS and OPML. He is perhaps best known for launching Scripting News, one of the Internet's longest-running Web logs.
