My favorite moment, though, was when he was asked for his greatest online and offline mistakes, couldn’t muster up the humility to come up with anything, and insulted the questioner.

http://portal.vpod.tv/leweb3/393644

If Dave Winer had pitched this as a fun project of little consequence that feeds his love of news photography, rather than as a “revolution,” he wouldn’t be the subject of so much ridicule around the net along with Robert Scoble and the other sycophants. But his ego won’t permit him to do anything that’s less than earth-shaking. Almost feel sorry for him.

http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2007/12/28/flickrfan-a-heads-up-for-license-conscious-flickr-photographers/#comment-21647

Dave is “very busy right now” and that’s not making photographers very happy. Food fight any minute. I tried a comment to see if ARR photos we’re being release in the feed and I found one that is. The software doesn’t read the creators site for a license. If Flickr send a jpg link in a feed it requests a copy of that file. There will be upset people… film at 11. Invoices may start flying soon since this is a “product” with a EULA, etc.

Dave should give this stuff away and never expect to make money with lone scripting. He’s needs legal advice… again.

Dave got a twitter message from Lane Hartwell asking:

@davewiner: perhaps you could just respect those with ARR on their images and just opt them out. Isn’t that why CC licenses were invented?

He replied:

@lanehartwell, let me have a few days to get educated on these issues. though i’m sure there’s no obvious answer.

Will she send him an invoice? I thought she had her Flickr library locked up.

Jpegs are designed to be internet safe copies of works. The jpeg creator can select the level of quality they wish to “give away”. Automating “rights” management for jpegs is an enhancement request that Dave won’t be able to resolve, IMHO, as he suggests.