2. yup, same.

3. So what, I did too.

4. Yea, so?

5. Winer is not a Journalist, he’s a op/ed writer.

6. Yup, and he should go back to developing that platform.

7. You forget. He also created MORE! which was the precursor to powerpoint and other outline based presentation tools.

I guess I’d really admire him if he wasn’t Jewish.

Apparently, he is not a particularly charming individual. I know very little about him. Specifically, I heard him on TWiT once and I hated his guts right away, even though he was introduced by Leo as some kind of genius and described a very interesting (and outrageous) problem he had with Apple and his notebook’s hard disk. I don’t like Apple, but that was certainly not enough to overcome the strong, negative impression I had of him. I also checked a few of his articles afterwards and did indeed detect a fair bit of arrogance.

Winer is just a tech guy doing a pretty good job. I don’t looove his “inventions”, but it seems an awful lot of people do. That’s pretty good credentials to me. Apparently, Einstein wasn’t such a nice fellow either. That’s their business, no one else’s. We don’t need to be their friends, we just need every guy out there constantly wearing a thinking cap and coming up with ideas, especially since there are so few of them.

The whole problem is this article:

1. He invented RSS. No, he didn’t!

2. What is the big deal about “pioneering” something on the Internet? That’s as annoying as those silly characters who use the “I’ve been around since BBS” line as credentials in their online discussions. I spend a lot of time on the Internet, too. I must have “pioneered” a lot of stuff that became very popular or remained totally obscure. What’s the big deal? Is this a gold rush where you get dibs on exploration of stuff you didn’t create yourself to begin with?

3. He knew people would love Twitter in 2001. “He knew”? He just chose a format that he liked and “he knew”? Then how come he didn’t invest a lot more on that idea? Give me a break. That page is not even that similar to Twitter. It’s something quite different. How about another theory: Winer didn’t really have a clue. Someone else saw that page (or some other) and came up with Twitter. Who in fact created what?

The article sticks firmly to this idea that Winer “pioneered” stuff so he is a genius. So someone invents the wheel, you like the wheel, you use the wheel and – bang – YOU are a genius? The overall tone of this article is quite silly.

Jägermeister #7 #13, either someone is using your screen name or you form an opinion amazingly fast!

Dan Libby and Ramanthan V. Guha at Netscape created the first version of RSS in March 1999. Winer created ScriptingNews format, an early syndication attempt he scrapped when he switched over to RSS.

Using RSS or checking the “tweets” is rather pointless and an incredible waste of time. This guy is no “visionary.” That is unless you consider his genius for marketing time wasting tech to the clueless masses who gobble it up like turkeys in late October.

In essence, I HAVE A LIFE! And this dude ain’t part of it.

1. Dave talks to you not with you.

2. No one is as smart as Dave, just ask him.

3. If Dave doesn’t know something then it isn’t worth knowing.

4. Everyone but Dave is either an idiot or a retard.

Remember and follow these rules and you’ll be his best friend in no time!

RSS is essential to syndication and nobody thinks that they can do without it, except idiots and ignorant, petulant children who’s grasp of tech is flimsy.

And he knew it wouldn’t take off without being given away because it was too “way out there.” So he gave it away and that also pissed him off.

He’d had a idea and the only way it would fly would be is he wasn’t trying to make a buck off of it. (That would have been the death knell for RSS.)

That pretty much sums up my opinion about him as well.

Thanks Asshole, and I mean it.