As narcissistic as the blogosphere is, you'd think they'd be making a big deal about its birthday. Since April 1, 1997 the great Dave Winer has been writing Scripting News.

You could do a lot worse with your time than reading the archives at ScriptingNews or even better yet of DaveNet.

I'm not sure when I first heard of Dave (although I was a big fan of ThinkTank many years ago), but my introduction to blogging quickly brought me to him and RadioUserLand was the first tool I used. I watched as he (and others) created and popularized RSS and then Podcasting. Success has a thousand fathers, and online those fathers get to argue (just like in the Anna Nichole Smith case) but Dave seems to show up as grandfather amazingly frequently. So at least from this little corner of the blogosphere, thanks Dave.