smallpicture.com - dave winer

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 30, 2013 at 08:36 PM

As far as I understand, Dave Winer has nothing to do with GrandView http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer though he is the creator of ThinkTank and More.

I actually believe that Winer is very consistent in his endeavours, as documented by the Wikipedia entry above: from the outset he was an outliner software evangelist, and he soon combined this with the web, giving us Frontier, Radio Userland and RSS, in short the predecessors to modern Content Management Systems. After creating OPML he launched the OPML editor which I personally find far from intuitive but which remains useful software. His launching a similar tool in HTML5 seems quite a natural step in the present situation; HTML5 offers a powerful rich web publishing platform beyond proprietary systems like Flash or semi open ones like Java, and I’m sure Winer likes this.

I wish his new outliner, ideally improved further by others too, gradually becomes an optional online editor in webwares ranging from Gmail to social publishing platforms; we might then see better structured texts circulating…