Eye on Winer

Dave Winer won’t be heckling anybody at the TechCrunch20 conference next month, according to Jason “Fistful of Mahalo” Calacanis:

Yes, Dave resigned from TechCrunch20 today. I’m relieved. I don’t want folks trying to make a go of it berated by someone who made it

The event’s set up for 20 tech experts to grill 20 startups for a chance to win $50,000 and spoon with Jack Michael Arrington Jr. during one of his afternoon power naps. Winer, alongside such luminaries as Mark Cuban, Mark Andreesen and MC Hammer, could have alienated another 20 dot-com CEOs in a single afternoon.

If anyone has a cache of Winer’s Twittergram podcast feed, he ranted yesterday during the drive home from Gnomedex, saying he would not soon forget that Calacanis called out the “wiener boys” on him. An hour later it was replaced with this Twittergram about what a great day he was having. And who wouldn’t have a great day, driving alone for 798 miles and calling in XML-RPC-powered audio harangues fueled by the largest sense of personal aggrievement since Richard Nixon circa 1974?

For those who missed this fight because they have rich personal lives, Loren Feldman has posted a dramatized re-enactment of the Calacanis-Winer argument.

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