Om Malik, founder of the popular tech blog GigaOm, was hanging out with fellow blog star Robert Scoble yesterday.
"I'm sitting with @Scobleizer checking pix of his kids and missing @davewiner," he wrote.
NY VC kingping Fred Wilson responded, "Your loss is our gain."
That's because Dave Winer - an ur-internet star heavily involved in the beginning of blogging, RSS and podcasting - is back on the east coast for a stint as a visiting professor at NYU. "For me and the students of Studio 20 this is a major 'get', as the bookers for TV shows like to say," wrote NYU's Jay Rosen.
Winer has long been a believer in new media. Back in 2002, Winer made a $2000 bet with Martin Nisenholtz, CEO of NYT Digital, that in five years time, web blogs would outrank big name sites like the NYT when it came to top news stories. Winer donated the loot to the World Wide Web Consortium, natch.
Explaining his move, Winer wrote that, "NYU and Manhattan are going to be very interesting places in the coming months and years, in exactly the areas I'm interested in."
P.S. - Check out this amazing website about Winer's bet with Nisenholtz.
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