IANAL, but I think that legally your Twitter stream is copyright to you, and nobody can republish it without your consent. Twitter certainly doesn't own your stream, according to its TOS. In practice, I think anyone should be allowed to republish anyone's Twitter stream, as long as it's clearly attributed. - Brent Newhall
Why twitter is so important - it's like any other illegal ways of re-publishing?! Or smthng more? - Erhan Erdogan
And if it is important, Friendfeed team must be in prison first :D - Erhan Erdogan
You wrote it, you own it, assuming you don't sign those rights to twitter as part of the ToS (which I don't think you do). - James Spinks
James: Nope, the Twitter TOS is clear: "We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Twitter service." http://twitter.com/tos - Brent Newhall
Conundrum: I want to click "Like" on this item, to give it more attention, but I don't actually *like* the news item itself. Odd problem to have. - Nathaniel
Well, I'm going to comment instead of "like" just to add some attention to it. What the hell is going on with this guy? - laurence timms
Promote? Highlight? Flag? Share? I think I like "Highlight" the best out of those. Also, yeah, this story is messed up. - Jordan
Unfortunately, this story might never hit MSM. To them, WIkipedia is "just some website". It's like hearing that the guy who runs myblogisawesome.blogspot.com likes child porn. It might as well be a non-story. - Nathaniel
I find Möller's stated position objectionable and unsupported by research. I also find the reporting by Valleywag to be unnecessarily incendiary and it lacks understanding of the Wikipedia editing process. With all that said, if I were on the Wikimedia Foundation board, I would vote to boot Mr. Möller. - Kevin D. White
I love coffee, but one of the best things I ever did was get out of the habit of having it every day. Now when I have a cup I really feel it! - Jason Nielubowicz
I rarely have coffee. Usually tea, since it's free. - Morton Fox
Go green tea! Recommend Hogicha green tea, my favorite! - Sumit Chachra
Citation? Can you prove it is 500+ I don't know either way, I only ask because you, Jason, said (wrote, published) some things about me that weren't true. Thanks. - Alex Hammer
Extremely lame. I just blocked Jason Calacanis because of this post. This is encouraging spam and duplication in our systems, not to mention a perversion of our identity systems. Things a CEO of Mahalo, a search engine and a social network, should be VERY against. For the record, Dave Winer blocked me too. I think I'll rename this whole community "the world wide high school." Sigh. - Robert Scoble
The identity issues do need to be addressed in general. As for the "West Side Scoble" nature of it -- with these two there is a "Dave pokes Jason, Jason pokes back" element that never seems to change - Robert Seidman
I think all feuds should be played out via twitter. I'm kidding. As much as I love the twitter these internet personality wars are boring. - Johnny Baker
I hope Corvida sees this thread; it's proof that a good portion of FriendFeeders *are* nice after all. ; ) - Carla Thompson
I thought he said something interesting (about having sharks eat him). That's a problem? - Dave Winer
Robert, "Our identity systems"? WHOSE identity systems? Whose Identity? Whose Systems? Nonetheless, social dramas have been overdone. You have to do better than that, Jason. The bar overreaches you. - jeneane sessum
Very lame. Its like @jasoncalacanis never forgave Winer for the Gnomedex incident or something. - David Risley
I suspect the real issue is that I said Mahalo was an obvious attempt to displace Wikipedia in Google searches. - Dave Winer
and my sister wonders why i don't watch telenovelas. - hisherness
I really just thought the comment was interesting. Calacanis is quite a character. In his mind he's a Walter Mitty style ninja. I'm a coward, I'd rather die in my sleep. Woody Allen has a great quote on the subject, "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Dave Winer
Funny but a waste of Twitter's capacity. - Morton Fox
Twitter should block douch bag media attention whore @jasoncalacanis for this. Mahalo = Fail. so he's trying to get attention. - The Dude Abides
Well, thanks, I think, but this is why there's a rabbid posse screaming for block-within-track, something I oppose. Yes, I'm one of those people blocked by him, I'm puzzled, merely because I disagreed with him and wrote a view posts saying no, uh, I don't think "everybody" in the Northeast is racist (like, couldn't the Obama voters at least get a doctor's excuse from Dave?!). I've blocked you, though Jason, over your sleezy bid to get followers by offering freebies. - Prokofy Neva
I dont see what the fuss is all about. You can tell its not Dave, just his tweets being retweeted for people that he blocked. If he blocked me I would follow the unblocked Dave. - Christian Burns
@Mike Doeff - either that or calacanis decided to pull it himself. I'm on the verge of blocking him myself. stupid HS antics. Think I'm done w. Mahalo too. - Brian D. Eisenberg
more like within 2008 looking at the economy. bring on more green tech silicon valley!! - Kevin Xu
@cmiper in a way it's a good thing ... could act as an incentive to move on to alternative energy sources. don't you think? - Chris Farrugia
Chris I don't disagree, and hope it will finally get people's attention. I was just picking on the fact that no matter what the news is, good or bad, it always says that you "liked this" here in FF. ;-) - cmiper
“I'd like to commend OwenThomas+Valleywag for being the ONLY mediaoutlet brave enough 2 cover this important story: http://tinyurl.com/3qw3go”
yesterday at 9:32 am
Yeah, but why the sudden vendetta. Is this news? It confirms in my mind the creepiness of @Jwales's environment, but I wonder from whence this all springs. - Jason Pontin
Agreed with Jason Pontin. I may be wrong, but this whole brouhaha seems predicated over a European album cover with a nude young girl (since removed!), and one Wikipedia person's side comments about childrens' relationships to sexuality. I disagree with much of those comments, but I don't see why this demands mainstream media reporting. (OTOH, this could just be a result of Calacanis's love of stirring things up.) - Brent Newhall
