Well, it looks like one of the biggest people behind RSS has decided to take leave from the blog scene. In a sense, I really don’t blame him. He’s a very public figure and at times it must feel like his privacy comes at a premium. So Dave, we wish you well and hope that you enjoy your retirement from the blog scene.

Blog pioneer Dave Winer, author of the “Scripting News,” has indicated that he plans to stop blogging by the end of the year to free up time and become less of a public figure–temporarily. “I want some privacy, I want to matter less, so I can retool, and matter more, in different ways,” he wrote at the end of a blog entry Monday.

Winer, who helped develop and promote RSS, is just one of several high-profile bloggers to leave the game of late. Jason Kottke, the daring soul who quit his Web design job in the hopes that micropayments from readers would support him, recently called it quits. And that followed Dan Gillmor’s news that he’d be ending his San Francisco Bay Area-focused blog, Bayosphere, to explore new projects. Source: News.com