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Re: Okay, now Dave is starting to scare me

Peter Giger — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:27:18 -0000

Sounds like a human being...

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Mathew — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:37:25 -0000

Thanks for that info, Isofarro.

Mathew

Re: Okay, now Dave is starting to scare me

Isofarro — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:13:13 -0000

"Just because you didn’t get to speak at SXSW and Rogers Cadenhead tried to set up an advisory board on RSS, that’s no reason to start talking crazy."

Rogers didn't create the RSS Advisory board - Dave Winer did. At one stage Winer invited Rogers aboard, and then Winer quit. The RSS Advisory Board's mission was to guide/advise adopters of RSS. Here's the details of the RSS Advisory Board

Re: Okay, now Dave is starting to scare me

niubi — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:49:01 -0000

let him go. he is old, bitter and increasingly irrelevant

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Alec Saunders — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:55:28 -0000

It's a great way to drive traffic. In fact, I think i'm gonna go post something and link to him right now. Instant memeorandum.

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Charles Follymacher — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:09:12 -0000

I'm sorry, was that start talking crazy...?

Re: Okay, now Dave is starting to scare me

Paul K. — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:00:31 -0000

Unfortunately, none of this is new. Go back over the annals of Dave Winer and you'll find he's done this sort of pity-me posturing before. Sad stuff.

Re: Okay, now Dave is starting to scare me

Stuart MacDonald — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:43:28 -0000

Uh, so how's that vacation goin' there, 'thewie? ;-)

Seriously, I suggest you kick back, refresh, renew - hey, you don't want to end up angry, sad, burnt out, w(h)ine-y...

- Stuart

Re: Okay, now Dave is starting to scare me

Peter Cranstone — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:42:10 -0000

I’ve faced a similar battleground when years ago my partner and I tried to convince a skeptical world for the need for real time data compression for the web. Everyone said it couldn’t be done, and even if we did no one would care.

I had many run-in’s with Dave, he even banned me from emailing him. He told me I was wasting my time. He still doesn’t compress the data coming from his site.

Well we prevailed, mod_gzip has become the standard for compressing data from an Apache 1.x web server.

Now Dave is facing his own demons with RSS… I’ve got some advice for him – stop arguing in public, flex your programming muscles and do something remarkable. Let the code do the talking.

Software is so much hype. The reality is usually pretty dismal… look at the state of the browsers after all these years. Make RSS into something better. Build a Mobile spec for it… you know people are going to need it on their smartphones.

People will always bitch about something, and then they’ll usually turn around and start using it. It’s the price you pay for being on the edge.

Re: Okay, now Dave is starting to scare me

mark evans — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:19:32 -0000

he sounds like a sad and/or angry man.

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/pd — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:34:29 -0000

You actually tag the posting with "Winer" - its should be "Whiner" :)-

yes, Dave's attitude is certainly coming to the forefront and it does not look very promising !!