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"Very illuminating. Thanks.." - Dave Winer

In the post-DaveWiner era, it's not really necessary to be so deeply affected. - Cliff Gerrish

Cliff, I'm going to send you my phone number via a DM. If you want to continue this conversation give me a call. - Dave Winer

"What does the BBC say about me watching their programming? Is there any way for me to pay for it? Do the colonies figure into their thinking? :-) After all we kind of speak the same language." - Dave Winer

"Aristotle famously said humans were unique in that we were the only species that laughed. Turns out he was wrong. Had he done experiments to test his belief he would have found that all mammals laugh. It's a way of communicating "This is just play don't take this seriously."" - Dave Winer

"RSS <==> XMPP would be cooolio to play with!!" - Dave Winer

"How do you know a bird can't ask whether a superior being exists? People always say stuff like that but have you done the research to validate your belief?" - Dave Winer

"If you present it as a feature request rather than a deficiency in RSS you have a chance of getting the feature implemented." - Dave Winer

"That's not a limit of RSS, it's a limit of your publishing platform. Mine has never had that limit, going back to 1997." - Dave Winer

"I'm doing that myself with all the people I follow. But it doesn't get really interesting until the data is completely independent of Twitter. Dave" - Dave Winer

"I don't think it's silly, but I do think it's pointless. Most people don't click on links in tweets, and if they do, they don't read what's there. This post is a perfect case in point. Not one person responding to it responded to the substance of it. They probably just read the headline, skimmed the post to see if they were mentioned and then started commenting. Sounds cynical -- I know -- but I don't see any evidence of comprehension. I think instead of a password perhaps passing a Turing test should be required to post a comment." - Dave Winer

"When you come right down to it, distill everything, what you're left with is the funnel. That's what they call their "value proposition." It's what they sold to Google and Microsoft. The fact that every tweet flows through them is what makes them worth $1 billion." - Dave Winer

"The URL should be an attribute of the tweet. Obviously. I wish they would just do it. We're so fucking stuck." - Dave Winer

"Isn't that what I said in the second paragraph of this post?" - Dave Winer

"Okay that I might agree with. :-) I have been trying to figure out what all the different themes do, and I understand taht there is a way to configure WP to behave like Twitter but I have yet to see it with my own two eyes." - Dave Winer

"I love a good "I Told You So" even when it's someone else's, but... Hmm. That's not really what you said -- is it? You were saying that WordPress does the same thing that Twitter does, and I'm kind of speechless at the thought. I do use WordPress, a lot, esp since they supported rssCloud, but I do not in any way see it as doing what Twitter does. This is one of those pointless discussions, imho, like which is better, Droid or iPhone. I happen to be getting pelted by iPhone users now on the Droidie blog, telling me all kinds of shit like "You must never have used an iPhone." So I'm not really interested in yet another of these. Twitter is great. It does not do what WordPress does. It however is not guaranteed a place in our rotation forever, any more than Netscape was. That's my position, and I haven't heard anything here to change my mind." - Dave Winer

Created. Get data about the indicated post. - Dave Winer

"Probably was personal in some way. I have very low threshold for that, make your point without getting personal. Got a lot of that after the Instapundit link." - Dave Winer

"He sure is annoying! :-)" - Dave Winer

"Yes, you are a NBB. Please get a portfolio! :-)" - Dave Winer

"It is open to all persuasions, but as you say not all flavors. If your idea of political comment is to say someone else is a moron or an idiot, you should try another forum. This is not a place for that kind of debate." - Dave Winer

"Absolutely." - Dave Winer

"Thanks for thinking about it -- here's what I need it for. I have a desktop editor that allows me to write posts for a variety of websites I currently manage, all of which are currently in WordPress. I can create a new post, and if I see a mistake I can make the change in my document and save it, and the version on the server updates. All I want is to be able to do exactly the same thing for Posterous and Tumblr. I can do it with Tumblr, which I understand has a simpler model, but for this application it's okay if Posterous works more simply, and doesn't expose all its power. So the answer to your basic question is: I want to update the text but leave all the media there. I can imagine a media editor that might view it differently, but I'm working with text, and I imagine most other developers are as well." - Dave Winer

"Don't put labels on people like "liberal" or "right" or don't bother posting comments here." - Dave Winer

Add idpost optional param, if specified, we're modifying that post. - Dave Winer

"Who is Barry?" - Dave Winer

"Yes, I watched it too." - Dave Winer

"You make a good point. It'll be interesting to see if he invokes that should he choose to escalate. What do you think? Should he escalate? What's the goal in Afghanistan? How do we get out? Why should we do better than those who tried before?" - Dave Winer

A good test -- if people say "Who does he think he (or she) is?" Pretty good sign you're looking at an NBB. - Dave Winer

Twitter changes its prompt from "what are you doing?" to "what's happening?" http://valleywag.gawker.com/5408768... Plus, Twitter and linking out: http://www.scripting.com/stories... - Jay Rosen

I think this is one piece of the future of news. Begin with a big question a lot of people have http://jr.ly/mxvc Answer it with journalism. Why is the construction of the new Bay Bridge (at $6.3 billion) so late and so over budget? Where did the money go? Spot.us, The Public Press, and McSweeney's team up. - Jay Rosen

"Of course I think Julie Powell is a hero of the blogging revolution. Just look at when she did her work, 2002. And I esp like her choice of blogging software. :-) But, that said -- there's no comparison between her accomplishment and Julia Child's. Julie was implementing Julia's recipes. It was Julia's pioneering work that made Julie's possible. And Julia gets to define the terms of success at achieving Julia's vision. They struggled in the movie to explain what Julia's contribution was, beyond hard work, perseverence, creativity and putting up with other people's view of her. But I think I get it -- Julia was a visionary. She saw what could be, and didn't stop there, she made it happen. We discuss it in more detail in today's RBTN. http://rebootnews.com/2009...... Dave" - Dave Winer