Dave Winer

dave winer
Why did Californians ban gay marriage?
I love Dave Winer's blog. He's even crazier than me, but he's pathologically unable to lie. Winer's latest post admits something most Californians would deny: The first time he learned a friend was married to another guy instead of a gal, he blurted out, "I find this shocking and it makes me a bit uncomfortable." He got over it, but he remembers that feeling. Dave, don't ever change. Remember when you found out I was working for Denton? That was hilarious. (Photo by tobiashm)

12:20 PM on Thu Nov 6 2008
By Paul Boutin
1,374 views, 9 comments

Most discussed LeeGeryon: I think it is because of the campaign to call it marriage. If they had called it anything else more »
politics
Karl Rove's Jedi mind tricks don't fool Dave Winer
"I totally don't trust Rove when he says that McCain has gone too far," writes Berkeley blogger Dave Winer, of Dubya's former campaign mastermind. "I wouldn't take the bait and pass this on as the Obama folk are doing. There's got to be a virus in there somewhere. Some devious trap that springs later in this process." Aw shoot, now if that doesn't happen, I'll be disappointed.

9:20 AM on Tue Sep 16 2008
By Paul Boutin
434 views, 5 comments

Most discussed Valleygrrl: I found it interesting that Karl Rove was endorsing Hillary Clinton in the wall street Journal during the primaries. Wonder more »
Comcast will pop a cap on your bandwidth in October 250GB, or "125 standard definition movies," will be Internet service provider Comcast's new cap on monthly bandwidth usage for downloads, according to a release from the company — which confirms some rumors and shoots down others. Which is 200GB short of what cranky customer Dave Winer has been reported to use. Better send some cupcakes to your friendly Comcast support representatives on Twitter for overage indulgences. [DSL Reports] MORE »

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twitter
Hot startup to squirm away from old man's caring embrace
It's been a rough year so far, Internet, what with Twitter's ups and downs, Facebook's family feud, and Microsoft's failed bear-hug acquisition of Yahoo. Now a bunch of grumpy old men are plotting a "bear hug" on Twitter, too. Not a takeover, per se, and more passive-aggressive than hostile. But make no mistake: Steve Gillmor and his gang want to bend the microblogging platform to their will, with their ursine embrace, at Bear Hug Camp, a group grope set for September. More »

11:20 AM on Tue Aug 19 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
782 views, 7 comments

Latest by Shadowlayer: The twitter (microblogging) concept is poised to become a standard, since is too small to be a class of its more »
silicon valley users guide
Want more traffic? Throw your widgets overboard
"Some blogs, like TechCrunch and Mashable are so loaded with widgets that they take at least 30 seconds to fully render," gripes a post by frequent Valleywag commenter Alan Wilensky. So true! When I was a website producer, I used to plot page load times versus daily pageviews. Load speed affected traffic — and hence revenue and brand reach— far more than I could convince my managers. More »

10:40 AM on Tue Jul 29 2008
By Paul Boutin
1,496 views, 15 comments

Latest by raincoaster: I'm sorry, but it is NOT widgets. It is ads. There is Flash everywhere, there are browser-hijacking scripts, there is AUTO-PLAYING YOUTUBE more »
willie brown
SF's dotcom-era mayor now black, white and read all over
Willie Brown, San Francisco's only black mayor (1996-2004) and a fixture in local politics for more than 40 years, has popped up as the Chronicle's latest columnist. Brown's first offering reads like a mix of Herb Caen and Dave Winer — short, first-person musings on current events, ending with a namedrop of Willie's rich neighbors at the St. Regis. It's pro forma to hate on Brown in San Francisco, even though he helped legalize oral sex and badgered President Clinton to leave the city's pot clubs alone. Willie's real crime? He always plays to win, and he usually does. For most politicos, a newspaper column would signal early retirement. In Brown's case, I can't wait to see how he parlays the Chron gig into his next big score. (Photo by AP/Eric Risberg)

1:20 PM on Mon Jul 21 2008
By Paul Boutin
322 views, 6 comments

Latest by Jeremy: I would always see Willie at various places, and I would inevitably beg him to come back and save the more »

social networks
Calacanis, Scoble, Arrington pawns in FriendFeed's smart marketing campaign
Egobloggers Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble as well as startup PR clearinghouse Michael Arrington all want to know: How amazing is it that after two years of using Twitter, they've each already got nearly half as many "followers" on FriendFeed after just a few months? Asking the question, each offer hypothetical answers involving the social-network aggregator's ease of use — "The comment systems is so fast and easy that it's perfect," says Calacanis — or Twitter's frequent outages — "Twitter downtime plays a big part," writes Arrington. But here's the real answer to the amazing growth these bloggers have seen on FriendFeed: More »

10:00 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
1,714 views, 13 comments

Latest by Mr. Gunn: giania: So, some people have different groups of friends on different sites, and FF provides a way to follow all more »
feuds
Blogfights: A 100-word history
Nearly ten years before Violet Blue vs. Boing Boing, the Internet's early bloggers discovered their new medium's killer application: Personal spats. Radar Online blogger Choire Sicha, angling for his 14th return to us here at Gawker Media, recounts blogfeuding's past. Choire: tl; dr. Only one era bears recounting: the months after 9/11. More »

3:20 PM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Paul Boutin
918 views, 3 comments

Latest by raincoaster: Choire can do much better than that; it read like a topic forced on him. more »
geek love
Julia Allison and Dave Winer share love of un-conferences
A reader writes to us concerned that the apocalypse is nigh. Why so scared? Because wantrepreneur Julia Allison (who was not fired from Star magazine) and cranky RSS guru Dave Winer are now link lovers. What sparked this show of mutual affection? Winer's treatise on how he created the first, true "un-conference" back in 2003, where instead of panels, it was a discussion — because "the eloquence and intelligence in the room are distributed not concentrated." This apparently reminded Allison of class discussions at her alma mater, Georgetown, "except this time you care." (Photos by Brian Solis, bub.licio.us and Doc Searls) More »

4:40 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Jackson West
1,191 views, 4 comments

Latest by michaellamb: I had about .005% of respect left for Whiner, and now I have -.000001% left. more »
broadband
Comcast considering 250GB monthly cap on downloads
Internet service provider Comcast is considering instituting a 250-gigabyte monthly cap on downloads, according an anonymous source cited by BroadbandReports.com. Users would be allowed one month over the cap in a year. Any month after that, and the customer would be charged $15 for each 10GB in excess. No cap is expected for uploads. Cranky RSS guru Dave Winer, who admits to downloading an astronomical 450GB a month, would end up with a regular $300 surcharge on his Comcast bill. More »

2:20 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Jackson West
1,630 views, 10 comments

Latest by EdaAntlion: comment Now boarding ATA flight 666 with service departing Comcast every half hour to Verizon FiOS, AT&T U-verse, Clearwire and points more »

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