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

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…

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”.

New Agence France-Presse photo feed: http://static.flickrfan.org/afp/rss.xml

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.

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.

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!