Dave Winer distorts Adam Curry's words

Dave Winer, who often criticizes mainstream media for getting articles wrong twists Adam Curry's words all around today.

Dear Dave, there is a big difference between saying Podcasting will kill the business model of Radio and saying it will kill radio. Curry said nothing about killing radio, rather that Podcasting, will kill the business model of radio.

Don't Quote Dave

So there is a problem. Dave says things and then takes them back. OK, so I could point to his weblog but I'm so freaking sick of his google-spamming by creating links to himself but with different domains. ZZZZZZZZ Dave please go back to your "closed" home page. You thought we'd miss you but we don't.

Only Dave can modify content

A week ago Google was evil for modifying web site owner's content. This week Dave Winer (annoying white male) brags about modifying other's content (but it's ok since nobody else can share the information

A duce cap please

So Dave created something useful (actually he's contributed to the creation of several things) but now he's out done himself. Today he decided to take the name of a document format and make it the name of his new product. Great just because he created the format he can fuck it up for the rest of the world. Don't worry though, Big Brother Dave will be happy to tell you when somebody does something they shouldn't .... just trust in Dave. He'll save the internet from Microsoft and Google by taking the glimmers of light like OPML and making sure they go out permanently. What's next a news reader called USENET? (sorry Dave I know you think RSS was the first news reader... It's OK Al Gore invented the internet too.

Dishonest Dave

On one hand Dave Winer says that the evil Big Media companies doesn't do enough to disclose their conflicts of interest. Today dishonest Dave does the same thing. We're treated to a snipe about how O'Reilly conferences are "like rock shows". It is convienient that Dave forgets to mention he's not invited to speak at the conferences, that he has a huge axe to grind with O'Reilly and most critically that O'Reilly conferences compete directly with Winer's own Bloggercon shows.

But wait, you say, Winer doesn't profit off the Bloggercon shows.... Oh, but he does. He even said as much in the last one in the session on making money. He laid out his view that blogs make LOTS of money and the model is exactly that of Bloggercon. Use an elitist gabfest, in the guise of a populist gathering of techies to promote Winer's bottom line disallowing everybody else to say anything commercial, while Winer accepts the credit for the "successes".

At least Winer is "honest" enough to keep Glenn Fleishman's comment on Scripting News even when the comment has been struckthrough on Fleshman's site. Turns out Fleshman was man enough to admit there is more to the story and allows the possibility of more dialogue. Winer, just like a big-media pro, wants the sensational spin instead of the real facts.

The authorities

Dave Winer pulls one of his latest tricks today. Perhaps it grows from his dissatisfaction with "other" places not getting him all the self-congratulatory credit he believes he deserves. At any rate one of Winer's favorite sources is now 2WW (TheTwoWayWeb.com). So there amongst the posts citing the BBC or other credible sources is 2WW. It turns out, after some sleuthing, (or just reading the page) that the quotes attributed to 2WW are from none other than Dave Winer. And critics say that one of the blogosphere's problems is it can be an echo chamber. I wonder where they came up with that one???

Don't post in your PJ's

Dave Winer is upset again today about the SF Gate article mentioning bloggers in pajamas. Evidently Dave's never blogged in PJ's.. Just one thing, could we lose the pajama thing? It's really offensive. Do you want us to come up with a similarly offensive way of degrading professionals? Hmmm.

Biting the hand that feeds you

Dave has always been good at biting the hand that feeds him. Today he says Google is the new Microsoft. I'm interested in end runs around Google. For the last several months Dave's been reporting his living expenses in terms of his shares of Google. So, Dave, are they too Microsoftish or just enough for you to make a profit?