The man is just not good at empathy in any form… and he escalates rapidly into attack mode.

But for that to matter you have to have some issue that you care about that Dave’s impacts with his work: standards for web interoperability for example (the RSS wars) or the financial aspects of web publishing (blogging). Otherwsie, he’s a rather interesting internet crank and pseudo-authority on any issue he chooses to write about.

I read him religiously and actually have trouble finding anyone else (other then the loyal readership here) that give a flying fuck about any of this. My wife thinks my interest is pathological. There are days when I’m sure she’s probably right. Am I trying to fix my father when I want to fix Winer? Don”t answer that. You don’t know me well enough to even guess. Let’s keep it that way.