Comments on: Jason Calacanis Gets Winered at Gnomedex

By: Bullshit Mancuso

Bullshit Mancuso — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:47:13 +0000

That was at BlogNashville, where Dave acted like an ass while running a panel on blog civility!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:33:00 +0000

What was the occasion when Winer was speaking and had a total hissy fit when someone in the audience merely chuckled to himself in response to Winer’s offering an opinion as fact? There’s a video of it somewhere.

By: Bullshit Mancuso

Bullshit Mancuso — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:04:45 +0000

You'd think a heckler would have the stones to handle a little criticism himself, but that's never been Winer's MO. Can you imagine how he'd react to a friend heckling him onstage?

The criticism over this latest stunt is getting to him. He deleted this comment on his blog from somebody named James:

Funny how Jaiku just lets you add your Flickr RSS feed. Much prefer it that way.

And to be honest, heckling during a presentation is pretty rude. Why not just pull Jason to the side afterwards and give your thoughts then? Its not like he could dramatically change the presentation part way through.

By: A Northern Voice

A Northern Voice — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:05:49 +0000

Off topic, but how shitty must his blogging software be when such dead-simple blog features like "next" and "previous" buttons break when he's not at home to attend to things:

And the Next-Prev links on Scripting News have been broken for a few days. I can't fix this problem from my laptop, but it'll be one of the first things I do when I get home.

This reminds me of another bug I observed periodically for a good six months, until I finally unsubscribed from his feed, where posts from several years ago would appear. I feel sorry for him -- he's spent so much time kvetching and picking fights for the last five years or so that he's lost most of his programming skills.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:02:54 +0000

Calacanis is far from perfect, but Dave's actions in this situation smack of utter hypocrisy. Dave responds to Calacanis's post by declaring it a personal attack, while in his post that set this issue off, he says his 'friend' is "ranting," "spamming" the audience, and that his presentation is "a joke." Is this not personal? And what of the reported heckling?

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:07:19 +0000

To me, Winer’s greatest sin is not the antics he himself commits but how he tends to drag people I respect down with him. Scoble was the first blog I read and I suspect 90% of the blogs currently in my feed reader were links I got from reading his blog. Plus, the guy puts his phone number on his Blog for gods sakes…bottom line is that I had a lot of respect for him. But each time he stands up for Dave he loses more and more credibility to the point that, if given the chance to meet him at a conference, I think I’d probably just pass.

Which is why I’m so disappointed to find I’ve lost respect for Jason Calacanis as a result of all this. The truth is, if Jason really wants to claim he’s never heard of Winer behaving this way towards anyone in the past than I have to call him a flat out liar. Given that fact I consider it pretty low for him to complain now because he’s the victim after watching Winer eviscerate so many others in the past.

If you condone the bully as he beats up other kids you lose the right to complain when the bully turns around and beats on you.

By: Dan Dickinson

Dan Dickinson — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:15:29 +0000

Curry actually paid $10,000 for his Radio Userland placement.

By: Gah

Gah — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:13:38 +0000

I love the way Dave gets all personal, and then hours later bitches that his ‘opponent’ is making it personal. When will people learn that Winer doesn’t have friends, just people he hasn’t yet made into an enemy.