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Dave Winer on Bluesky
@scripting.com

I have a Google Alerts query for my own name, just to see if any journalism outlets mention me. It happens. But it's usually to give me credit for co-creating an app called iPodder, which they say was where podcasting started. None of that is true. But that's what journalism says about me.

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Dave Winer on Bluesky
@scripting.com

On the other hand if you ask ChatGPT what role I played in developing podcasting it gives an accurate answer. So tell me what the role of journalism is. Hallucinating myths into fact? That would be my estimate.

Dave Winer on Bluesky
@scripting.com

Here's the ChatGPT result. I actually did a little more than that, but what they say is true and gives an idea of how things like podcasting come into existence. A lot of work and struggle against people's disbelief, and most of the time it doesn't work -- podcasting is one of the successes.

dpbsmith.bsky.social
@dpbsmith.bsky.social

Circa 1980 I worked at Wang on a skunkworks project, that never saw fruition, to create a Mac project. I showed my boss's boss MORE, and started with a outline of the department's hierarchy, pressed the button, and it instantly reformatted it as an org chart. Her eyes popped out of her head.