#winer

"When Dave Winer started blogging, he used to have two forms. Some would be the long form essay, some would be the short form sentence. His blogging platform encouraged you to build up a day's journal entry from a mix of the two."

"Try this one out. Imagine you're fishing, and there was some nerd on the other side of the river, shouting at you, the number of fish that went by that you didn't catch. How long before you'd want to kill the nerd??"

"I appreciate the victory, but I have a sneaking suspicion this honor is like being crowned king of the dipshits."

"But RSS doesn't have an inventor. It wasn't invented. Something else happened, something harder than invention, imho -- an activity that we don't have a word for in the English language."

"Invention here is hardly the issue. What matters is adoption and forward motion."

"Every writer can participate in the web. Someday, very soon, I believe, every writer will. That's the next big opportunity in the online world." Written back in 1995.

"There are approx 80,000 people who will think this post is about them. It’s not. That’s the point."

A new aggregator starting from Dave Winer.

"An open message to Microsoft and Yahoo, and major implementors of search engines: Please clone the Google API, without the limits."

"It would have been really smart to review this stuff with the community before releasing their software."

"However, it's going to take more than a half-hearted apology (immediately followed by a justfication) to really get me involved again." Wow, seems like that answers my questions about what ever happened to the Frontier Open Source release.

"Dave Winer says you can trust him. Can you?" Ouchie ow.