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Dave Winer
Re: PBS and BBC could boost BitTorrent. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"Very illuminating. Thanks.." - Dave Winer
Julien
Depressed by the fact that I'm so deeply affected by how @davewiner acts.
In the post-DaveWiner era, it's not really necessary to be so deeply affected. - Cliff Gerrish
Julien, I feel the same way about you. Why do you take sides and do it so unfairly? And Cliff -- I never did anything to deserve the disrespect. Objectification sucks. I'm a person. Geez. - Dave Winer
Clearly, you are a person. - Cliff Gerrish
Well when you treat persons like objects you become less human yourself. Imho. - Dave Winer
Are you saying that I'm "less human" than you? That your attacks on Julien are those of a Mets fan and therefore allowable? - Cliff Gerrish
No. And I don't agree wit the premise of your 2nd question. - Dave Winer
Aren't you a Mets fan? - 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
Dave Winer
Re: PBS and BBC could boost BitTorrent. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: Happy Thanksgiving everybody! (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: How (slowly) we add metadata to tweets. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"RSS <==> XMPP would be cooolio to play with!!" - Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Re: Happy Thanksgiving everybody! (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: RSS should be “unbundled” - http://ianrosenwach.com/index...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: RSS should be “unbundled” - http://ianrosenwach.com/index...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: How (slowly) we add metadata to tweets. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: What's so sacred about 140? (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: Tumblr and Posterous. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: The new Retweet is cool! (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"The URL should be an attribute of the tweet. Obviously. I wish they would just do it. We're so fucking stuck." - Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Re: Tumblr and Posterous. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"Isn't that what I said in the second paragraph of this post?" - Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Re: Tumblr and Posterous. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: Tumblr and Posterous. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
Created. Get data about the indicated post. - Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Re: No escalation in Afghanistan. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: Natural-born blogger. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"He sure is annoying! :-)" - Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Re: Natural-born blogger. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"Yes, you are a NBB. Please get a portfolio! :-)" - Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Re: No escalation in Afghanistan. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: Natural-born blogger. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"Absolutely." - Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Re: Posterous and Tumblr are next. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
Re: No escalation in Afghanistan. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"Don't put labels on people like "liberal" or "right" or don't bother posting comments here." - Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Add idpost optional param, if specified, we're modifying that post. - Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Re: No escalation in Afghanistan. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"Who is Barry?" - Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Re: No escalation in Afghanistan. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"Yes, I watched it too." - Dave Winer
Dave Winer
Re: No escalation in Afghanistan. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
Dave Winer
What is a "Natural-born Blogger" -- I know it when I see it, someone whose nature is to do stuff without waiting for permission. To explain things, knowing they could easily be wrong. To go first. To err on the side of saying too much.
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
Jay Rosen
Buncha topcis and links for next show, Rebooting the News # 34. Here's the link to listen live, noon eastern http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rebooti...
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
Need a lawyer? New network gives web publishers a line of defense http://www.niemanlab.org/2009... Piece 'o the rebooted system of news. - Jay Rosen
From the LA times social media guidelines, one learns what can happen to your credibility online... you can lose it http://jr.ly/nza2 You can't add to it. Isn't that weird? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/readers... "In deed and in appearance, journalists must keep themselves – and The Times – above reproach...." - Jay Rosen
Archiving what we do online and the fragility of relying on companies to do so has come up several times in RBTN. For a poignant example: http://www.businessweek.com/the_thr... - Jay Rosen
Dave Winer: "A blogger is someone who takes matters into his or her own hands." http://jr.ly/mx34 More from Dave: "What is a 'Natural-born Blogger' -- I know it when I see it, someone whose nature is to do stuff without waiting for permission. To explain things, knowing they could easily be wrong. To go first. To err on the side of saying too much." - Jay Rosen
Save a Business Week blog: http://www.scripting.com/stories... - Dave Winer
Pierre Omidyar's new venture in Hawaii - Dave Winer
We might talk about Chuck Todd: http://twitter.com/chucktodd Reacting on Twitter to the criticism he;s getting over Twitter: "Plenty of folks have passed on comments about coverage of the Asia trip; It's caused the blogosphere/twitterverse to do the usual......which is focus on facts that support their own thesis; the generalization that goes on with judgments against the WH press corps... more... - 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
Dave Winer
Re: How Hollywood portrays bloggers. (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"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
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