The Angry Drunk

I’m bored, and the non-stop tor­rent of Apple Unicorn rumor-mongering inter­ests me not one bit; so I think I take some time to point out yet another exam­ple of Dave Winer’s ongo­ing cam­paign to prove that he knows fuck-all about tech­nol­ogy. I’ve writ­ten about this before, but this exam­ple was too good to pass up.

In an arti­cle titled Twitter is SMS 2.0 Dave puts forth the the­sis that Twitter is to SMS as blog­ging is to the web. Hilariously, that anal­ogy is absolutely cor­rect, but not in the way that Dave thinks it is. Dave is propos­ing that Twitter is an evo­lu­tion of or replace­ment to SMS in the same way that blog­ging is an evo­lu­tion of or replace­ment to the web. To quote the curmudgeon:

There was the web and then there was Web 2.0. The dif­fer­ence is dimen­sion. The first ver­sion of the web, though it was never the inten­tion of the designer, was one-way. Publishing was hard, very few peo­ple did it. Lots of read­ing, not much writ­ing. Blogging changed all that, writ­ing got very easy, then richer, to the point where lots of pro­fes­sional pub­li­ca­tions now use blog­ging soft­ware. Mission accomplished.

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