Dave Winer (born May 2, 1955 in
Brooklyn,
New York City) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in
New York City. Winer is noted for his contributions to
outliners,
scripting,
content management, and
web services, as well as
blogging and
podcasting. He is the founder of the software companies
Living Videotext,
Userland Software and Small Picture Inc., a former contributing editor for the Web magazine
HotWired, the author of the
Scripting News weblog, a former research fellow at
Harvard Law School, and current visiting scholar at
New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.