Come on Dave

OK the rest of the world knows RSS stands for several things including RDF Site Summary and Really Simple Syndication. Now comes Dave Winer in a lame attempt to steal podcasting credit. Podcasting was developed by Adam Curry using technology that Winer and others developed. Now as in today's post, Winer is retitling his Morning Coffee Notes podcast with the word podcast linked to his MP3 file trying to drive traffic to another one of his phony sites. Dan Gillmor has already pointed out that this kind of forgery is not tolerated in the real media, but in Winer's brave new world of no-credibility required it works just fine evidently.

Doesn't get RSS

Dave Winer is quoted in this BBC story saying RSS is a way for websites to alert you when they have new content. Huh? All this time I thought RSS was a pull technology Come on Dave can't you do better than that?

The BBC story is also rife with incorrect facts ranging from what RSS stands for to the suggestion by omission that the Atom format is not the prevalent format it is. I guess this must be the piece Dave Winer whined enough to get them to do after the good piece they did on Podacsting recently.

Would you explain it to him?

Our buddy Dave Winer needs a primer on copyright. The poor fellow is now attributing not only his quotes to made up sources, but they now have their own copyright. See here where www.podcatch.com claims a copyright. Just what company is that? Oh, that's right there isn't one. Not to mention that whoever the mythical www.podcatch.com is they are claiming copyrights on other people's work. In the end this all probably goes to why Dave feels DRM is a bad thing.

I'm so sorry

Dear Dave,

I'm so sorry that those lousy people out there who run music companies instead of software companies believe they should be paid for their work. So the EFF is wrong when Davey wants to be paid for his work but right when recording artists and labels want to be paid for theirs. Somehow Davey equates a friend loosing a thousand buckeroos with Apple's iPod. Never-mind the numerous times that Apple has told its users to back up their data. Hmmm that must not count.

Davey please take your whining and use it elsewhere. Perhaps someday you can provide some good feedback that will help a product get better instead of continuing to criticize it for things it does just fine. It seems you whined a long time about not being able to fast forward or rewind an iPod. Maybe you finally figured out it is not hard. Please Dave, get a non-iPod. You'll love it. It won't work for shit, it will be something you use a month and then loose, but at least it won't be an iPod... And make sure you get Micro$oft Media Player instead of iTunes. Obviously a much better choice. In case you didn't realize Micro$oft does DRM too.

Not Dave

This one is too funny

Dave Winer:

Okay, I'm embarassed to admit that I've never been able to figure out how to create a new user on Windows 2000 or Windows 2003. Anyone have a good howto that doesn't require me to take a course in system administration? I just want to give someone access to my FTP server without giving them the password for the Administrator.

I'd take the class Dave. And of course we'll buy your software. You obviously have a solid understanding of the Windows Security Model.

Oh the tragedy

Dave got rejected by Google News today. To think the little one-line posts on Dave's site won't be clogging up the works at Google News. Best of all, he suggests they are wrong in saying only one person writes his site. Excuse me? Would you show us a single example of another author? Sure there are links to other's works, Dave Winer does like to borrow heavily from others' work. But there is no hint of other authors. Even many of the linked "sources" are nothing more than the Dave Winer echo chamber. Somebody sure should bring back Winerlog.

I think

Dave defends his trashing up of language with some arguments that didn't work in high school and certainly don't work for supposedly intelligent people. Maybe if you'd quit putting meaningless words in your writing it would get better. Or as Dave would have me say: I think, maybe if you'd quit putting meaningless words in your writing it would get better.

Wow! An intelligent post

WOW! Dave actually said something worth reading. OK so APRIL FOOLS. Actually what he said is that "Scripting News was the inspiration for many of the mainstays of the blogging world." Proving that once-again Unlce Dave wants to re-write history. And the worst part is he failed to give Al Gore credit for inventing the internet.