Dave Winer

As a Briton one thing confuses me about America. A lot of times you hear things stated such as "the troops are defending America" Or "they gave their life to defend America" but if a soldier in a foreign country dies, how are they "defending America"? I mean, America has not been invaded in the last hundred years, so it has not had to be "defended". Btw, In Britain we say "they died SERVING their country". - Mark

That would be a heck of an event if some terrorists in Iraq managed to overthrow the US government and repeal the Constitution of the USA. Hehe. - Mark

I'm finding scheduled chats to be the most interesting usage of it. You can have an actual conversation. Otherwise, you're just finding new people and getting what they find to be news or interesting links. - Jeremy Schultz

"I believe that there must be a consensus for something to become news. And I think news organizations have a chance of working as long as they understand that they're just mirrors. Once they lose that perspective, they become the agenda-setters, they become Jay's Church of the Savvy, the insiders who have become "players" -- who end up being used as poorly paid mouthpieces for the truly powerful people, the ones with all the money. Mark, I would consider myself the equal of Mitch Kapor when it comes to software design, and I would compare my achievements with RSS and blogging to his achievements with spreadsheets, but the press treats him with infinitely more respect and credence because he's made many times the money I've made. I'm not complaining, about the money -- I'm comfortable, and making tons of money was never really an issue for me. But the press can't get its mind off money, even though they, as individuals, don't make very much. They end up, over and over, being used as..." - Dave Winer

Thanks Dave, now I have a word for my favorite software projects. What could be more open and exciting than starting from scratch (with a few of my favorite tools). - Mark Essel

Yeah the psychology of developers is they want to see green-fields everywhere, but are shocked to find out it's really more complex than they thought. - Dave Winer

This is so wrong... but really really funny! - Mark Jepsen

Euan, it's Der Untergang. - Andrew Trinh

don't get it - tylergillies

{ Curly Brackets } are so much cooler than #hashtags : http://www.fanboy.com/2009... - Michael Pinto

Dave misses that FriendFeed search can be constrained by groups of people YOU pick. This is the real "track" that Steve Gillmor keeps talking about. Oh, and by the way, my blog items (via RSS) get into FriendFeed within 60 seconds. Anyone figure out how I do that? - Robert Scoble

It definitely is a great idea with the real time track but in real-life in practical usage it is not very useful yet. You do not get much information other than a bunch of mentions of couple of the most prominent links on the topic. - Marko Saric