http://newsjunk.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/how-to-follow-newsjunk-on-facebook/

1) If there’s a mob forming to organize against some person, group or company he will typically start defending the entity under attack. he typically justifies this as a function of empathy because he is attacked so often. He’s also a confirmed contrarian.

What I enjoyed about his defense of the AP’s tactic of using the DMCA was the extended context of his relationship with Roger Cadenhead.

Roger made the mistake of doing business with Dave Winer and paid the price: a legal attack with a demand for all the money Roger’s made working for Dave on a website and the loss of a web site that Roger’s invested in as well: a “share your opml” type of service.

Dave is able to disclose details about his working relationship with some folks at the AP but his only reference to Rogers is as “the blogger”. No empathy or link love for his offending ex-partner in business.

Dave’s ability to disclose context and bias is not one of his better qualities but maybe his self-editing is an effort not to do more harm against the man that saved “weblogs.com” from a complete melt down as blogging took off and started to bury the Frontier-based implementation of the ping service.

Dave subsequently sold weblogs.com for $2.17M as I recall. Arrington negotiated the sale.

Dave never forgets offenses… it’s the assistance and favors he seems to have problems remembering.

For while when anyone mentions “the Blogger” I’ll think of Rogers Cadenhead. The man that gave away “BenedictXVI.com”. The man that wrote the “Radio UserLand Kick Start” book. The man that defended and manged the RSS Advisory Board against the emerging Atom standard (eventually admitting RSS was frozen and controlled one person and was now a dead end spec).

Yes, I’ll think of Rogers Cadenhead as “the blogger”. Because I can’t think of anything else that might distinguish him from that tribe of freeloading, do nothing “content” thieves.

(I feel a bit like Olberman must… after a manic self-righteous rant).

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/09/whoOwnsYourComments.html

“I decided that it’s a mutual thing. I own the collection of comments on my blog, and you own the comments you’ve placed on my blog and all others.”

Ok mister hypocrite winer, if someone owns the comments they posted to your blog, what gives you the right to erase them, since they aren’t your exclusive property? Because we all know you delete comments whenever it suits you.