Jason Calacanis has begun a new feature on his personal blog:
Since Dave can’t stop obsessing about me I’ve decided to start a new feature here on CDC (calacanis dot com): “Great moments in Dave Winerdom!”
Today Dave Winer dismisses some of the greatest minds in the technology industry.
“people think there’s a grand plan to Apple or Google, but I bet there isn’t. They just throw stuff up on the wall, if it sticks, do version 2.0″
Dave Winer, February 1st 2008
Talk about a lack of empathy.
Sure Dave… Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt are just throwing ideas against the wall. The iphone, Google, Gmail, Google Maps, MacBook Air, OS/X, and AdWords—just throw away ideas!
How’s that revolutionary screensaver going? I hear you can pull images from the AP Newswire… really?!?! Game changer!!!
Got a great moment in Dave Winerdom? Share it below!
Though Calacanis is now our competition, we welcome the challenge from the entrepreneur who made Dave Winer his bitch.
A competitor? Nah. The more the merrier!
I believe the word you’re looking for, BS, is not “competitor” but “compatriot”.
I got $20 that says “eyeoncalacanis.com” is taken soon: then it redirects to it’s owners site.
Jason Calacanis actually has the balls to continue to make it personal with the king of A-List “Assholier Than Thou”. Just when I thought the web had scaled to a signal v. noise ratio that makes AM radio in Alaska interesting by comparison… we get this little New Year’s Declaration of War.
Expect a terse comment from Betsy Devine soon on JC’s property about being more considerate to the man that invented blogging, RSS, OPML, XML-RPC, the S in SOAP (before MS and IBM too the S out), podcasting, photocasting, codecasting, (videocasting – wait for it), and Twatter(tm): the distributed desktop messaging service.
I also think JC will eventually learn the “Mark Pilgrim lesson”: you can’t fix a narcissist by holding their behavior up to a mirror: narcissists actually LOVE mirrors.
A VC will advise JC to let it go or be unfundable. JC will prove that Dave’s animus is actually good PR.
Welcome to the “Eye on Winer Affliate Network” Jason!
I left JC some advice:
Jason: Mark Pilgrim tried to shame Dave Winer into being civil with a civil war. Mark eventually took a year off from blogging to regain a positive view of life. Wrestling with a toxic person is a bad idea. But it will generate clicks… use your judgement. Protect your health.
Anyway, watch Dave at Le Web3… there’s a Q&A that is classic Dave when confronted with a “tough question”.
http://light.vpod.tv/?s=0.0.393644
One final bit of advice… wear a cup.
McD, please spare me the agony of listening to that asshole for longer than necessary, what point in the video is the incident you’re referring to?
Zaphodim: I’ll paraphrase the classic Q&A (it’s very near the end).
Q: What’s the one thing you regret most in your career? (and the one thing your most proud of)…
A: None of your fucking business.
Loic was asked this as well and he stepped in and answered “Having Sarcosy speak at le Web without asking the audience for their consent”.
Dave went on to say that that’s the kind of question you get asked on Oprah. Yes, I question intended to have a person disclose something about they way the think and what they value in life.
I say, don’t get on the stage if you can’t handle critical questions… questions that make you think and disclose who you are. IN that sense the question effectively worked to disclose a lot about Dave Winer.
Thanks, McD, now that I know what to look for, I found it, it’s at 16 minutes into the program. Yeah, that was a horribly rude way to respond to an honest question. The audience started applauding the question, but stopped cold when dave blurted out his response. Loic handled the question with aplomb, showing how a decent human being behaves.
(O/T)
New Agence France-Presse photo feed: http://static.flickrfan.org/afp/rss.xml
Dave Winer is redefining his favorite acronym to mean “Really Simple Stealing”…
His idea of networked living rooms seems to involve finding sources of rich media and using his OPML Editor application to get it for you. He currently has it getting AP Photos, French Press photos and a variety of NPR podcasts. It’s the podcatching that is effectively stealing content off of NPR’s sites (their RSS feeds effectively) and re-coding the MP3 objects into HIS rss feed for his “networked content server”.
It’s a sweet little idea but honestly… would Dave accept me scrapping off his blog text and hosting on a server that allows people to comment on the text wthout Dave controlling the comments. I don;t think he would allow it.
At some point NPR will request that Dave re-direct hois pod catcher to use the NPR feeds fo they can have some sense of where their content is going for what is effectively free with certain restrictions.
RSS = Really Simple Scoble? Really Simple Stealing? Ripe Socket Snarfing?
The rules need to apply equally to all…. just becuase he spec;ed the protocol doesn’t mean he should be given the right to pretend he’s creating the content… The NYT River of News is a similar Winer hack that people might like but doesn’t really make sense…
“Hi, this news is brought to you by your good friend (I don’t make a penny off this, honest… yet) Dave Winer.
He can’t make much off it if any lawyers perform due diligence on these “services”.
Yes, I can program such hacks too… but I wouldn’t call them “Products”.
Oo-la-la… Let them eat photos.
http://bloganon.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/scripting-in-french/
I haven;t actually looked at any yet…. but “get ‘em while they’re hot”.
Thanks wordpress for making it even cheaper for Dave to pass these about! He was paying the download costs with Amazon’s S3 but now…
Whoops, looks like DW changed the AFP feed address. Humorously he can’t figure out redirects and relies on his sketchy “codecasting” setup to get everyone on a new version of his software that includes the new address:
http://feeds.flickrfan.org/afp.xml
FWIW the AP feed addy changed too (for the third time), but it looks like the old address is still being updated. I’d switch to the latest though, just to be safe:
http://feeds.flickrfan.org/ap.xml