Gnomedex: Dave Winer

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Dave Winer presented the opening keynote in a style he called bloglike, which means he provided a title and description of the talk, and let the rest of the keynote be driven by "comments" and "trackbacks" from him and the crowd (I have a feeling Dave gave talks like this long before Blogs or RSS).

Although Dave (and everyone else) was plagued with network problems, Dave did manage to give a demo of what he calls THE OPML Editor. In the demo Dave showed how he uses the editor (which will look familiar to anyone that has used the Userland editor) to publish and manage the content on Scripting News.

Dave said that Userland had tried to get the editor out there, but it didn't lift off the way he's hoped, so now he's hoping open source will be a better path. Currently the open source effort has an early version of a Windows application and they are working hard on a Mac port, which Dave says is their biggest limit to growth right now. About 60 people are using the existing version and this will be expanded once the software "can give 80% of people a good experience".