Dave Winer

To be an Internet pioneer, one must be a self-centered, insecure individual.  Dave Winer is the master of unrestrained comments, but he is not able to accept any criticism directed towards him.  With his innovative DaveNet emails, he created a new way for the industry to communicate.  I think this was also the first set of spam to be sent out.  He controlled who received what information and would not allow others to respond to the entire list.  He was also defensive when an individual asked to only be sent emails with important information.  Getting many people to have their own blogs was a great advancement for users of the Internet that wanted to say something anyone could read. He still had issues if an individual would use that forum to say something contrary to what he thought was right.   He did show some sort of maturity by not shutting down the “Winerlog” blog.  The only reason Dave created the things he did was to nurse his bruised ego from Apple.  Maybe it was just pure luck that he became a pioneer.  If he was not so insecure he might have been able to do it without being so closed-minded to others comments, and being an incredibly rude individual.