Dave Winer Plans to Quit Blogging

Posted on March 13, 2006

Dave Winer has blogged that he will quit blogging. This is sad because Winer is one of the pioneers of blogging and started one of the first blogs at Scripting News. Now he seems to be trying to muster up the courage to quit blogging now that there are a billion or more websites.

I can do it, folks, I have already, in some sense, stopped one of my rivers, and soon, probably before the end of 2006, I will put this site in mothballs, in archive mode, and go on to other things, Murphy-willing of course.
It's been a long time coming. When I started blogging, depending on how you look at it, either in 1994, 1996 or 1997, I had different goals, and happily the goals have been accomplished. Billions of Websites now no longer seems an outrageously ambitious goal. We're pretty close to a billion, I suspect. The goal was also to create tools that would make it easy for everyone to have a site, and then more specifically a chronological one. That's done.

The news has Doc Searls bummed out. Shannon Whitley suggests that Winer get some people to manage the Scripting News website for him to keep it going. Andy Wibbels thinks Winer will quit for about a month and then start blogging again.