 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. ==family background and education== winer was born on may 2, 1955, in brooklyn, new york city, the son of eve winer, ph.d., a school psychologist, and leon winer, ph.d., a former professor of the columbia university graduate school of business. winer is also the grandnephew of german novelist arno schmidt and a relative of hedy lamarr. he graduated from the bronx high school of science in 1972.dave winer's personal website: curriculum vitae winer received a ba in mathematics from tulane university in new orleans in 1976. in 1978 he received an ms in computer science from the university of wisconsinâmadison. ==career== ===early work in outliners=== in 1979 dave winer became an employee of personal software, where he worked on his own product idea named visitext, which was his first attempt to build a commercial product around an "expand and collapse" outline display{{cite news | last = swaine | 
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