Episodes 25
Avg. Duration -
Activity Highly Active
Since Jun 2025
Latest Episode Mar 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Consistency
57%
Hosting
scripting.com

About This Podcast

Podcasts from Dave Winer, editor of the Scripting News blog, since 1994.

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Voicemail to NakedJen: AI, RSS, and Creative Possibility

Mar 29, 2026

As before I asked Claude.ai to do the show notes, from its point of view. I added links. As always if you really want to know what I said you have to listen. :-)Dave Winer left a voicemail for his…

Suspension of Disbelief in Software

Mar 18, 2026

As before I asked Claude.ai to do a synopsis, from its point of view. I added a link to Brent's post and a postscript. As always if you really want to know what I said you have to listen. :-)Dave…

Why men hate Democrats and more Boomer blowback

Feb 27, 2026

As before I asked Claude.ai to do a synopsis. I corrected one factual error (informing it, waiting for a new version, not correcting the writing). And I think it may have missed the big points of…

The killer app for AI

Feb 21, 2026

As with previous podcasts I asked Claude.ai to write the show notes based on a machine-generated transcript. It makes mistakes, so you have to listen to the podcast if you want to know what I really…

Frontier and Apple in the early 90s

Feb 10, 2026

As with previous podcasts I asked Claude.ai to write the show notes based on a machine-generated transcript. It makes mistakes, so you have to listen to the podcast if you want to know what I really…

How XML-RPC started up

Jan 17, 2026

As with the previous podcast I asked Claude.ai to write the show notes. It makes mistakes, so you have to listen to the podcast if you want to know what I really think. This time it wrote it in the…

Blogger of the Year

Jan 05, 2026

As with the previous podcast I asked Claude.ai to write the show notes. It chose to write it in the third person, which is great with me. It even filled in the first name of Jack Smith, when I…

What Would Firefox Do?

Dec 18, 2025

I asked Claude.ai to do the show notes -- something I really don't enjoy or have time for. So if this doesn't adequately describe the podcast, blame the AI. ;-)There's tired frustration among web…

Boastful story of Frontier and how it relates to today

Nov 30, 2025

I recorded this 23 minute podcast on October 31. I didn't publish it then, but I figured at some point I would. It's the story of how a product like Frontier comes into existence.I had done this…

Sarah Kendzior and Bluesky

Nov 12, 2025

A short podcast about Sarah Kendzior being banned from Bluesky, and why this shouldn't be like any other such event. We should learn, that systems like Bluesky depend on moderation, and they don't…

It's faster and even simpler than RSS

Nov 03, 2025

If I could grab you by the shoulders I would urge you to pay attention. Here's a way to push news around the net that's as fast as you can imagine it being, and even simpler than RSS. It's all about…

WordLand, the timeline and checkboxes

Sep 15, 2025

I'm in the homestretch on the next release of WordLand. This version has approximately twice as many features as the last one. Because, like Radio UserLand from long ago, it does both reading and…

A new model for blog discourse

Sep 10, 2025

When I started blogging, early on, I had a different system for discourse. Here's how it worked: First each post would go out via email to a group of eleven people. I was cc'd.The group was randomly…

Why blogging lost to Twitter and other folk songs

Sep 08, 2025

I'm starting to roll up the user interface of the new product, and so it's time to start talking about the features that are coming, and also let's talk about the mistakes we made last time, almost…

Last chance for the open web

Sep 03, 2025

I wrote a blog post last week about WordPress and the open web, and what I want to do there. It's the first time I've laid out in one place my plan for rekindling the open web, with my new editor…

A podcast from post-Katrina New Orleans.

Aug 31, 2025

I recorded this podcast in New Orleans on December 16, 2005. I had just spent three days there, visiting New Orleans and the Gulf coast of Mississippi, post Katrina. I've always been fascinated by…

Bird fight in the pond

Aug 21, 2025

My house has a view of a pond, which is endlessly interesting, year-round, through all seasons. And we have all the seasons here in the Catskill Mountains.Yesterday, I spied a large bird in the pond,…

Just answer the question, please, dear ChatGPT

Aug 05, 2025

Dave Winer explores his frustrations with ChatGPT's tendency to overcomplicate simple programming tasks. What should be a straightforward request for pagination code—a standard feature in virtually…

A podcast user's API

Aug 03, 2025

On Thursday I wrote: "It would be interesting if Pocket Casts had an API. I would love to be able to one-click subscribe to a podcast in my feed reader. I mention Pocket Casts because it's the…

Wired and Harvard, big change still coming

Aug 01, 2025

I've been thinking a lot about Harvard lately, and a revealing podcast interview with the top editorial person at Wired. Elon Musk wasn't over-exposed, he burned out. If he hadn't saluted like a…

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