Duh!

So I've done it more than once. You hook your iPod up to the wrong computer and wipe the library. When Dave Winer does it somehow it's Apple's problem. What it really is has to do with the way Dave migrated from one computer to the other. Plug an iPod into a foreign computer and it won't do a thing until you answer if you want it to. Plug it into your computer where you've previously set it up to sync, even though you took away the music library, and it will do just what you say. Only there won't be any music to load on to it. What would you like Dave? A mind reader iPod. So would we all.... I'd like it to tell me what I want to listen to in a few hours and purchase it too.... And while we're at it why doesn't the iPod Cyborg interface work to have my iPod cook dinner too?

The Dave Winer Solution

Dave's been making noise about how he could have done WordPress better and how it's such a step backwards. Funny last week he was whining about people who make such observations about his company.

The Winer solution would be to shut down the whole WordPress project, turn off everybody's sites and then depend upon volunteers to save his ass. Or rather that's what he did.

Between the lines

Apparently there is a lot to read between the lines in this article. Or that is to say when Dave Winer reads it the story is totally different. That's fine Dave. While you whine about wanting credit for Adam's work he'll be making a living.

Meanwhile a great write up of the Dave Winer spin machine is over at geekable.com. The truly amazing part is Winer hasn't deleted the original posts yet. Rest assured he'll change them soon to try and make others look the fool and likely find a way to blame Tim O'Reilly in the process.

User interface

Yesterday Dave Winer complained about Firefox again. The root of the complaint is that Firefox is making itself consistent with the Mac OS X interface. Dave argues instead that since every other Mac application works the way it is designed to, Firefox should instead make itself work like Windows.

Now, take a moment and think about that. Dave Winer, who claims to have great software design experience, suggests Firefox should take a great big dump on 90% of their users to help 10%. Admittedly the 10%, well except for Dave Winer, are the ones who could find the directions and change the preference most easily. The choice boils down to this:

1) do it so it works for those users who use Firefox just on the Mac and make it work like every other properly designed Mac OS X application, or;

2) Make it easy for somebody who is a die-hard PC user to switch back and forth.

If this is the thinking that goes into the products at Userland and Scripting News can we expect that they will have a good User Interface? I am doubtful.

Another reinvention

It seems Dave Winer doesn't understand podcasting. Winer who claims to have invented Podcasting (though the truth on this subject is more complex) doesn't understand that it's not about a format. Several great podcasts use formats other than mp3 files. They are none-the-less podcasts.

One is left to wonder, again, when the ego will stop and Dave will get on the truth bandwagon? Not that the truth has ever been much of a concern to Winer. If you acknowledge Dave as the greatest ever internet inventor you're "a part of the conversation" in his book. Think otherwise? You're a know-nothing critic.