Dave’s Bad With Technicalities
August 14th, 2007 by EyeOnWiner(There’s so much crap in the alleged apology that I hardly know where to start, so I’m going to get the low-hanging fruit first.)
Dave whines that he is invited to conferences. Really.
Wired quoted Calacanis quoting TIm O’Reilly saying some pretty nasty stuff, explaining why I’m not invited to his conferences. He wrote this piece in 2000.
The problem with the O’Reilly piece is that is isn’t true.
After he wrote the piece I was invited to speak at E-Tech and OSCON and to participate in an Open Source Summit. I accepted all the invites. Nothing disruptive happened at any of them. You can ask the people who were there. I think Doc Searls was at all of the events.
First of all, I think Dave’s post makes O’Reilly’s point even more strongly. Okay, so there were some conferences he attended that he didn’t act anti-social. Nice work. But there are still all of the ones he has, which was the point of the quoted O’Reilly piece: that “you never know what you’re going to get.”
Besides… an axe-murderer isn’t going to show up to trial and say “Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury… I’m not an axe-murderer… look at all of the people I haven’t hacked to bits!” Which is basically what Dave’s doing here. “But I went to some conferences where I didn’t berate someone else that I didn’t agree with!”
Congratulations, Dave, apparently you have a smidge of impulse control. Maybe you ought to work on getting a little more.
August 14th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Dave’s in rare form this morning. First, he posted this mopey comment before deleting it:
Now he’s got a post up declaring that Jason’s not a mensch and dictating the terms of four apologies he expects him to make.
Considering the credit Dave got yesterday around the blogosphere for apologizing, he doesn’t seem to understand that it defeats the point to go right back on the attack.
August 14th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Oh god, I can’t believe the section where winer writes how he’d like everyone to apologize to him. What an asshole.
The fact is, winer has been UNinvited to all the serious O’Reilly conferences. It has shaped what winer does, to the point of him organizing “unconferences.” The only difference between a conference and an unconference is that at an unconference, winer controls the microphone, and monopolizes it for himself. I’ve seen video streams of winer’s unconferences, and he constantly berated everyone else who spoke, unless it was one of his sycophant buddies like marc canter.