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In 1994, Dave Winer started DaveNet, an email newsletter that discussed the latest developments in the computer industry. Frustrated with the lack of coverage his software company received in the trade press, Winer saw DaveNet as an opportunity to bypass mainstream media.
The infamous blog ‘Diary of a London Call Girl’ was voted Blog of the Year by The Guardian newspaper in 2003 and spawned the book The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl.
The flagship product of Winer’s company was Frontier, an early scripting language for the Mac. By 1996 it had evolved into software for the creation of websites. Winer used ...
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