A few weeks ago, Colby Palmer exchanged tweets with Dave Winer after telling him “don’t get me wrong Dave- <3 your brilliant work … but maybe piling more trash on the heap doesn’t add gloss to a ‘good name’?” After their chat ended up here, Palmer wrote a post for us about how conflict is bad, cooperation is good, and the blogosphere should be one big reacharound of happiness.
We didn’t run it.
This made Palmer so mad that he started his own blog, hoping to set an example for positive thinkers everywhere:
The conversation, unfortunately, was picked up by some vacuous hate-blog site called Eye on Winer and published. Apparently they are like Dave Winer’s personal Valleywag. If I were Dave I would be flattered; they obviously put a lot of energy into this crap. I attempted to comment on their post, even registered and tried to post my own comments, but for whatever reason the site refuses to approve my post. OMG really? If you’re going to publish my tweets out of context, at least give me the opportunity to express my perspective … right? If not, I felt it needed to be said … so here we are.
So … this needs more than 140 characters so I decided it’s time to start my own blog. Yes, I am THAT cantankerous that I will create my own sweet blog, just so my first post can tell the world what some other jerkass website doesn’t want to publish. This is not rebuttal, not apology, not a withdrawal. It’s just my side of things, and hopefully the beginning of a productive conversation. Dave Winer is NOT the point of this post; the point is that the narrow-minded cowards who waste their time on lame Twitter-fights and crap like EOW should really take stock of their priorities and try to do something more noble with their intellect.
This appears to be the first time that Eye on Winer has fathered another blog. And it didn’t take long for our child to rebel against his parent.
It’s great that Palmer wants to rise above the fray and be the better person, though no one over 12 should use the phrase “OMG really.” But the tech industry is full of hucksters and charlatans and assholes, which makes it a target-rich environment for anyone with a bullshit detector. Telling the truth about these people tends to make them mad.
Welcome to the blogosphere, son.
