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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.

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.

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Dave Winer on Bluesky
@scripting.com

The actual first podcast was a Grateful Dead song in 2001 which I used to test Radio UserLand which was the first software to implement podcasting. There's a film documentary coming out soon and I believe they have a bit about that, so maybe that'll get on the record. :-)

Dan Rosenbaum
@brooklyndan.bsky.social

Loved Radio Userland, too. The idea of creating content locally and syncing/publishing online was exactly right. It's my recollection that it was Tristan Louis who first suggested (and may have executed) using RSS for non-text content -- specifically audio. Do I remember correctly?