Editing Dave Winer (section)

===Writer===
As "one of the most prolific content generators in Web history,"<ref name="almost-famous">{{Cite magazine |last=Cone |first=Edward |date=May 2001 |title=Almost Famous |volume=9 |magazine=Wired |issue=5 |url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.05/winer_pr.html |access-date=May 13, 2009}}</ref> Winer has enjoyed a long career as a writer and has come to be counted among [[Silicon Valley]]'s "most influential web voices."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=K. C. |date=July 31, 2008 |title=NowPublic Lists Silicon Valley's Most Influential Web Voices |work=Information Week |url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/social_network/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209901042 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 11, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080809221654/http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/social_network/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209901042 |archive-date=August 9, 2008}}</ref>

Winer started ''DaveNet'',<ref name="davenet">{{Cite web |last=Winer |first=Dave |title=DaveNet |url=http://scripting.com/davenet |website=Scripting.com}}</ref> "a stream-of-consciousness newsletter distributed by e-mail"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Markoff |first=John |date=April 9, 2001 |title=An Internet Critic Who Is Not Shy About Ruffling the Big Names in High Technology |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/09/business/internet-critic-who-not-shy-about-ruffling-big-names-high-technology.html?sec=technology&&n=Top/News/Business/Companies/Microsoft%20Corporation&pagewanted=all |access-date=May 9, 2009}}</ref> in November 1994<ref name="lappin">{{Cite magazine |last=Lappin |first=Todd |date=May 1995 |title=Davenet |volume=3 |magazine=Wired |issue=5 |url=http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/3.05/scans.html?pg=2 |access-date=November 18, 2014}}</ref> and maintained Web archives of the "goofy and informative"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nolan |first=Chris |date=October 13, 1997 |title=Talk is Cheap |work=San Jose Mercury News |location=San Jose}}</ref> 800-word essays since January 1995,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Winer |first=Dave |date=January 2, 1995 |title=What is an Agent? |url=http://www.scripting.com/davenet/1995/01/02/whatisanagent.html |access-date=February 21, 2011 |website=DaveNet}}</ref> which earned him a [[Cool Site of the Day]] award in March 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 1995 |title=Still Cool Archive |url=http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/cgi-bin/stillcool.pl?month=03&year=1995 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208234834/http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/cgi-bin/stillcool.pl?month=03&year=1995 |archive-date=December 8, 2010 |access-date=February 24, 2011 |website=Cool Site of the Day}}</ref> From the start, the "Internet newsletter"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Einstein |first=David |date=August 29, 1995 |title=Wozniak chastises his Apple: Biggest blunder was not sharing its OS |edition=Final |pages=B1 |work=The San Francisco Chronicle |location=San Francisco}}</ref> ''DaveNet'' was widely read among industry leaders and analysts,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Michalski |first=Jerry |date=June 23, 1995 |title=What's a zine? |volume=13 |pages=1–24 |work=Release 1.0 |issue=6}}</ref> who experienced it as a "real community."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brockman |first=John |url=http://www.edge.org/documents/digerati/Winer.html |title=Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite |year=1996 |chapter=The Lover |access-date=May 11, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804075316/http://www.edge.org/documents/digerati/Winer.html |archive-date=August 4, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Dissatisfied with the quality of the coverage that the [[Classic Mac OS|Mac]] and, especially, his own [[UserLand Software#Frontier|Frontier]] software received in the trade press, Winer saw ''DaveNet'' as an opportunity to "bypass"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gillmor |first=Dan |title=We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People |year=2004 |chapter=From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond |access-date=May 13, 2009 |chapter-url=http://www.authorama.com/we-the-media-2.html}}</ref> the conventional news channels of the software business. Satisfied with his success, he "reveled in the new direct email line he had established with his colleagues and peers, and in his ability to circumvent the media."<ref name=rosenbergEverything/>{{rp|50}} In the early years, Winer often used ''DaveNet'' to vent his grievances against [[Apple Inc|Apple]]'s management, and as a consequence of his strident criticism came to be seen as "the most notorious of the disgruntled Apple developers."<ref name="borsook" /> Redacted ''DaveNet'' columns were published weekly by the web magazine ''[[HotWired]]'' between June 1995 and May 1996.<ref name=almost-famous /> ''DaveNet'' was discontinued in 2004.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

Winer's ''Scripting News'',<ref name=scriptingnews /> described as "one of the [web's] oldest blogs,"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gallagher |first=David F. |date=June 10, 2002 |title=A rift among bloggers |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/business/technology-a-rift-among-bloggers.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |access-date=January 22, 2011}}</ref> launched in February 1997<ref name=rosenbergEverything/>{{rp|59}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ammann |first=Rudolf |date=March 27, 2010 |title=Scripting News: Launched on 1 February 1997 |url=http://tawawa.org/ark/2010/3/27/scripting-news-launched-1-feb-1997.html |access-date=February 2, 2011 |website=Tawawa}}</ref> and earned him titles such as "protoblogger"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Dan |date=December 2, 2006 |title=A Bubble Watcher Watches Google |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/02/business/02online.html?_r=1&en=c1da3b954033449c&ex=1322715600&pagewanted=print |access-date=May 10, 2009}}</ref> and "forefather of blogging."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gilbertson |first=Scott |date=February 3, 2011 |title=A DIY Data Manifesto |url=http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/02/take-back-the-tubes/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317220420/http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/02/take-back-the-tubes/ |archive-date=March 17, 2011 |access-date=March 5, 2011 |website=Webmonkey}}</ref> ''Scripting News'' started as "a home for links, offhand observations, and ephemera"<ref name=rosenbergEverything/>{{rp|59}} and allowed Winer to mix "his roles as a widely read pundit and an ambitious entrepreneur."<ref name=rosenbergEverything/>{{rp|50}} Offering an "as-it-happened portrait of the work of writing software for the Web in the 1990s,"<ref name=rosenbergEverything/>{{rp|59}} the site became an "established must-read for industry insiders."<ref name=almost-famous /> ''Scripting News'' continues to be updated regularly.