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10th Anniversary of Blogging? Try 12th...

10th Anniversary of Blogging? Try 12th...Geez...Self-Aggrandizement or what? That you actually put this online suggests you're no better than Winer.Never said I was better than Winer...... just wanted to clear up a common misconception.- Jasoncredit where it's due or undueI think the point wasn't self-aggrandizement. As Jason mentioned, it's...

Tags: blogging, winer

Discussion threads 2007-07-16

A Pulitzer Prize for Dave Winer (the bearded, prickly one)?

A Pulitzer Prize for Dave Winer (the bearded, prickly one)?Tim O;Reilly features in Winer's BlogBusy man this Dave Winer, isn't he? I don't mind giving him the blog Oscar (The Blogscar Award, indeed...). Nice one.What attracted my attention was that Tim O'Reilly features in his blog, saying something good about...

Tags: blogging, winer, dave winer, tim

Discussion threads 2007-04-13

Spolsky on Gillmor on Schwartz and Winer

Spolsky on Gillmor on Schwartz and WinerIt's a great experience...... to understand Steve Gillmor the first time.See my small cartoon:http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2006/12/the_gillmorian_.htmlBye,Oliver

Tags: spolsky, gillmor, winer, schwartz

Discussion threads 2006-12-24

Riparian Rights

Riparian RightsHypocrisyThis is not new, it has been available in Bloglines for years. Dave Winer was the first to complain about Google's toolbar modifying his content, yet when he modifies the BBC's content everything's fine.No grey area about itAt present, Dave is not acting in accordance the BBC's license for...

Tags: rss, winer, british broadcasting corp., syndication, implied license, google inc.

Discussion threads 2006-08-25

One voice or many?

Dave Winer is a really smart guy and technological leader who has reshaped media. That's a given. But he lets his personal agenda get in the way of his reasoning, unleashing massive doses of hypocrisy for folks to swallow. ...

Tags: winer

Blog posts 2006-07-01

Blogosphere founder quits blogging says he has better things to do

[Warning: social satire ahead--for entertainment purposes only! The only genuine quotes in this are from Tom Foremski. Based on Dave Winer's real announcement of leaving blogging.] Monday, March 13, started off as a normal morning in the blogosphere--there were a lot of top bloggers convening at the South By South...

Tags: winer, blogging, blogosphere, mr winer

Blog posts 2006-03-14

Winer's OPML Roadshow rolls into Berkeley

Winer's OPML Roadshow rolls into BerkeleyThe last strawANOTHER "programming" language? GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!I propose the PAPPL!People against the proliferation of programming languages!

Tags: opml roadshow, winer, opml, berkeley

Discussion threads 2005-08-22

Bloggers and journalists responsible for shades of gray between them

Over on Scripting News, Dave Winer says he's interested to hear what I have to say about how the tables got turned on Microsoft when Microsoft's Robert Scoble claims to be blogger ended up issuing corrections to the reporting done by The Register's Andrew Orlowski (assumed to be a...

Tags: andrew orlowski

Blog posts 2005-07-29

Remix this

First, a joke I heard about Google and Microsoft. The Google guy says they've been hiring people away from Microsoft. Then the Microsoft guy says they've been hiring people away from Google. Then he says, "Guess who's getting the better deal."Microsoft the white hat. You bet, folks. Microsoft not only...

Tags: google inc., microsoft corp., winer

Blog posts 2005-06-29

What's left for RSS to disrupt? Plenty

Updated 5/20/05: Steve Gillmor is back on "the air" again. Under the name the "Gillmor Daily," Gillmor's new regular gig featured Dave Winer (credited with the birth or rebirth of the XML-RPC, RSS, podcasting, and OPML) for the first show and based on what is said near the...

Tags: winer, rss

Blog posts 2005-05-20

What's a podcaster to do when his iPod breaks?

Dave Winer, the co-inventor of podcasting, is having difficulties with his iPod and is looking for a replacement. According to one of his blogs, the chances that he'll buy a new iPod are slim. Says Winer, "So it's time once again to shop for a new MP3 player, and I'm...

Tags: winer, podcasting gear, general

Blog posts 2005-04-07

Could trusting Google be blind faith?

Scripting News publisher and RSS shaker-and-mover Dave Winer diplomatically bit the hand that fed him with a recent blog entry that can be summed this way: Unless there are some changes in the way the company conducts itself, perhaps throwing in a dash of transparency the new trendy buzzword, users of Google's...

Tags: atom, google inc., winer, rss

Blog posts 2004-12-15

Additional Resources

Microsoft opens philosophical can of worms with Live Search Cashback

Talk is bubbling up across the blogosphere, Gillmor Gang and Techmeme daily about social graph personal information. This may be among the most important discussions and topics of our time. How the "social mesh" works out now will affect our lives and businesses for a long time. It may even...

Tags: social networking, web, data, agreement, commerce, microsoft corp., worm, data portability, channel management, marketing, dana gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-23

A distributed alternative to Twitter must respect what already exists

Lots of talk over the last few days among Twittervangelists about the need for some kind of open source and fully distributed version of Twitter to protect against the outages that continue to plague the service. "We're all creating artifacts and connections that are even more fragile...

Tags: twitter, branding, marketing, steve o\'hear

Blog posts 2008-05-05

The scaling problem and open source

Most trends in the open source market come down to one word. Scaling. (The picture is from a Cisco report on scaling VOIP, but the problem is general.) To stay worthwhile a project must grow. It must attract new developers, new community members, and...

Tags: blog, fork, org, blogging, open source, internet, dana blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Yahoo layoffs: 'The ultimate poison pill'?

RSS pioneer Dave Winer wonders aloud about Yahoo's 1,000-person layoff this week, which has resulted in a number of key managers and technologists being axed from the company. Winer blogged: Why would Yahoo want to self-inflict more doubt about its future at this moment where doubt...

Tags: layoff, yahoo! inc., workforce management, human resources, mary jo foley

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Software emancipation: An open letter to Linus Torvalds

[After years of watching the software industry twist itself in knots trying to differentiate "open" vs. "free" and having to re-invent code simply because it had the wrong comments at the top, I think it's time to put an end to the madness. This promoted me to write the following...

Tags: software, linus torvalds, gplv2, rss, internet, ed burnette

Blog posts 2008-01-21

HD DVD price cuts - Fire sale or an attempt to keep the format alive?

HD DVD price cuts - Fire sale or an attempt to keep the format alive?Buy Buy BuyWe must save the economy and prolong the HD Format war. Tis the only way. Our jobs depend on it.Cmon baby light my fire....or to quote Tom Hanks in Cast Away, "Look...

Tags: hd dvd, dvd, consumer electronics, games, hd-dvd, hd-dvd price, fire sale, toshiba corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

On the road to CES

I'm on the endless BlogHaus media bus ride from Silicon Valley to CES in Las Vegas, organized by PodTech and Valerie Cunningham. We left Mountain View just after 1:00 PM PST and we'll arrive at around 2:00 AM (we took a splendid dinner break at the Harris Ranch restaurant in...

Tags: tom foremski, consumer electronics show, corporate governance, blogging, business operations, corporate law, internet, dan farber

Blog posts 2008-01-05

How will Twitter make money? (A web 2.0 conundrum)

How will Twitter, the hugely popular micro-blogging service (among the tech-savvy crowd anyway), make money? That's the polite version of the question posed today by Allen Stern over at his CenterNetworks blog. Stern writes: "As Twitter usage has grown, have they f'ed themselves out of a real, sustainable business...

Tags: web, twitter, stern, web 2.0, text messaging/sms/mms, internet relay chat (irc), internet, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology, online communications, steve o\'hear

Blog posts 2008-01-02