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Thanks Dave!
You'll find a new addition to my site today - this simple, little badge:
The badge is a link to Scripting News, the weblog home of Dave Winer. If you hover over the image on the site, you should see the following text:
My thanks to Dave Winer for his visionary role in the development of weblogs, RSS, podcasting, SOAP, XML-RPC, OPML, and outliners.
Why?
As a loyal reader of Dave's site over the past five years, I've grown to share his frustration with the way his contributions to the Internet are recorded and viewed. Time after time, he has played a substantial role in the development and evangelizing of new technology (particularly weblogs, RSS, and podcasting), only to have his effort and contribution ignored or substantially diminished over time.
I decided it was time for those of us who owe so much to Dave to do something about it. I can't change what other reporters and bloggers write, but I can place a simple image on my site that reminds me, and everyone who visits my site, of the role he has played in making all of this possible. Simply put, without Dave, I certainly wouldn't be blogging and much of the blog revolution that has swept across the country and the world would not exist.
So, grab one of these badges or make your own, link it to Scripting News, and join with me in saying...
Thanks Dave!
If you add one of these to your site, send me an email or comment on this post and I'll post a follow-up in the near future. Ask not what the Internet can do for you, ask what you can do for the Internet.
I used to have my differences with Dave. Occassionally I'd even be public too. But all told, I agree - while he inspires very loyal or very critical emotions in people, he has really not been credited his due respect anymore.
That said Brian, I think you better check out whatever you did....
Both your blog and Scoble's hung in Safari this morning. Scoble's I didn't check - I noticed he had no new posts. But your's...
Saw no posts until I hit the stop button. Then I saw everything - except for the "link" you put out there. Happened again - exactly - when I went to comment.
I get the text about "this simple, little badge:", blank white space below it, followed by the rest of the post. Also, on your right hand side bar the topmost image is not loading.
Off the top of my head it's like your server isn't pulling that simple, little badge from Dave Winer's server? If so, it's hanging the page load - and doing it before rendering your posts in Safari.
Posted by: Dave | June 14, 2005 at 06:56 AM
It looks like the Feedmap.net link is currently down, which Scoble and I both have on our sites (along with many others). I took it off my site for now so there won't be a page load problem. Thanks for the heads up.
The Thanks Dave! image is on my server (well, TypePad), not Dave's. He wasn't involved in my little idea :)
Thanks!
Posted by: Brian Bailey | June 14, 2005 at 07:16 AM
If you want that hover-text to display properly in Firefox, you should place it in a "title" attribute. Ostensibly (and actually, I believe) an a-href should have a title and not an alt, and Firefox (perhaps incorrectly) ignores the alts of img tags wrapped in a-hrefs.
Just happened to notice....
Posted by: cori schlegel | June 14, 2005 at 01:01 PM
BTW, I agree that we owe a lot to Dave.
Posted by: cori schlegel | June 14, 2005 at 01:03 PM
Thanks for the heads up, Cori. It's fixed.
Posted by: Brian Bailey | June 14, 2005 at 01:52 PM
I agree. It's going on my blog. Although sadly, I am just waiting patiently for the inevitable backlash to this.
Posted by: Richard Querin | June 14, 2005 at 04:35 PM
Link added at http://alifeonthenet.com and most happy to do so.
Posted by: Andrew | June 14, 2005 at 04:39 PM
Brian, thanks for the Thanks Dave! badge and idea. I stole the badge and put it in my blog. I agree with you that Dave deserves the recognition.
Posted by: Andres Gonzalez-Mancera | June 14, 2005 at 04:41 PM
Sorry but Dave Winer doesn't deserve it because:
He doesnt' have blog roll on his blog.
He doesn't have comments to posts in his blog (like Scoble for example).
Posted by: Comic Strip Blogger | June 14, 2005 at 04:41 PM
It's up on my site, (but I personalized the message).
Posted by: Joseph Palmer | June 14, 2005 at 04:47 PM
Thanks, Dave. My button is posted here:
http://icann.blog.us/
-- Bret
Posted by: Bret Fausett | June 14, 2005 at 04:59 PM
Mahalo Brian, I've added it to both of my blogs:
http://www.nahenahe.net/ and
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001196/
I've been using Dave's tools for as long as I can remember, and following his lead as well, so quite appropriate.
Aloha,
Keola
Posted by: Keola Donaghy | June 14, 2005 at 05:09 PM
I'm Sparticus!
Yeah, go on then - I've put the badge on my site as Dave certainly deserves the recognition and long may he continue to do so.
Seem to have problems with the Title attrib on my Wordpress blog but it's there.
Posted by: DonsBlog | June 14, 2005 at 05:32 PM
Its up! :)
Thanks Dave!
Posted by: Ray Booysen | June 14, 2005 at 05:32 PM
Yow!
This is great.
I'm not one of those guys who can't handle gratitude.
Let's have fun.
Still diggin!
Posted by: Dave Winer | June 14, 2005 at 05:53 PM
Every time I take a walk with a podcast in my ear, I think of Dave's inventions and thank him. My cardiologist thanks him too.
Posted by: Charlie Quidnunc | June 14, 2005 at 06:02 PM
Added to http://blogjet.blogware.com/blog
Thanks!
Posted by: Dmitry Chestnykh | June 14, 2005 at 06:08 PM
done, http://www.mobilejones.com
Thanks, Dave.
Posted by: mobile jones | June 14, 2005 at 06:23 PM
Dave's Scripting News was the first blog I ever looked at. And that was as a result of reading the Wired article about him years(!) ago. I have learned a great deal from Dave both directly from his blog, and indirectly from the links I have followed.
If I had a blog I would display the "Thanks Dave!" badge. But I will have to content myself with following his blog on a daily basis (and about 50 others, too). Thanks, Dave. And thanks also to Brian for doing this.
Posted by: Tom Brandt | June 14, 2005 at 06:28 PM
Great idea Brian,
Added to http://www.reallydull.com/blog/.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Posted by: Mark | June 14, 2005 at 06:43 PM
Like many folks, I enjoy the fruits of Dave's labor on a daily basis. I've added it to my site. Keep on keepin' on, Dave.
Posted by: Seth Long | June 14, 2005 at 06:46 PM
I don't do the artwork thing on my sites so it won't be there. But, I like Dave and enjoy his totally open frankness. Some take it abrasively but they're just thin-skined cowards generally. :-)
Posted by: PXLated | June 14, 2005 at 06:57 PM
Brian, this post just echos my thoughts exactly. I have thought for a long time that the genius, and I DO mean genius behind all of this has been Wave Diner. Thanks for taking the time. And Dave, you rock.
Posted by: Fran | June 14, 2005 at 06:57 PM
I'm glad to put it up on my site. Dave and his software has been a huge part of my life since MORE.
I'm happy to see so many people feel the same way I do about him. Keep pushing Dave!
Posted by: James Fee | June 14, 2005 at 08:43 PM
For me, the crucial event that turned my blog from political drudgery into the crazy collage that gives my friends the giggles was googling "boston blogger" and wondering, "Who is this guy named 'Dave Winer'? And is David Weinberger somebody different or is one of them just a pen name for the other?" Not to mention RSS, OPML, Bloggercons, the end of boring panels at conventions, and more...Thanks, Dave! And thanks to Brian too, for dreaming this up.
Posted by: Betsy Devine | June 14, 2005 at 08:51 PM