Eye on Winer

Apparently EOW has joined Mahalo’s Top 7 for Dave Winer. Just in case Dave needed another reason to hate it.

An email from an observant reader discusses the ridiculous nature of RSS over XMPP…

Dave’s latest idea for a decentralized Twitter (which isn’t really an idea, blogging is already here as you mentioned…) is RSS over XMPP.

Think that over for a second and it even makes less sense. Sending an XML document (RSS) embedded into another XML document (XMPP). For a 140 character message. Overkill much? Well it gets worse since he’s trying to do this with UserTalk which is a scripting language environment run inside of his OPML editor which runs as a PPC app being interpreted on the fly by Rosetta. What a cluster fuck.

Speaking of Twitter, I snatched up twitter.com/eyeonwiner, mainly so that Dave can’t. If there are people that absolutely need to be followed, please let me know. If you have good ideas for what can be done with the Twitter presence, I’d like to hear those, too. (It took Dave roughly 30 seconds to block me when I followed him… hooray for echo chambers!)

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