A Simple Question for the Hacks at ZDNet

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Ignoring, for the moment, the ques­tion of why a tech blog needs a “gov­ern­ment” beat — explain to me how this worth­less tripe even vaguely qual­i­fies as “gov­ern­ment.” You cant, can you, you worth­less link-baiting shit weasels.

Dave Winer on Gender Relations

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I hon­estly don’t know what it is about New Media Douchebags that com­pels them to com­ment on shit that they have no busi­ness pon­tif­i­cat­ing about (ok, I lie. I know exactly what com­pels them). Nonetheless, they seem inca­pable of refrain­ing. Today I noticed that one of my favorite know-nothing loud­mouths, Dave “Get Off My Lawn” Winer, decided to bless us with his pow­er­ful wis­dom regard­ing the accu­sa­tions of rape being lev­eled against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. I’m not of a mind to debate the ethics of WikiLeaks, and I’m cer­tainly not qual­i­fied to dis­cuss mat­ters of Swedish jurispru­dence. If read­ing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is any indi­ca­tor, Swedish law is fun­da­men­tally weird. However, Dave’s dis­jointed and facile com­ments need addressing.


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Dave Winer Buys a MacBook Air

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And, of course, he doesn’t fuck­ing get it.

Addressing his idi­otic com­plaints by the numbers:


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Bash on Dash

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John Welch, my Angry Mac Bastards cohort, does a fine job of decon­struct­ing Anil Dash’s lat­est pile of dri­vel regard­ing cyber­bul­ly­ing. John cov­ers most of the points that I would have made, albeit with less use of the phrase “igno­min­ious snot-muffin” than I would have, but there is one point that he didn’t expand on as much as I think is needed.


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One for the Bucket-List, I Witness A “Scandal” Being Born

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Today I had the priv­i­lege of wit­ness­ing some­thing rarely glimpsed in the wild. An event so rare it’s akin to see­ing a snow leop­ard (the cat, not the oper­at­ing sys­tem) per­form a back-flip. For the first time in my career I was present at the exact moment that a New Media Douchebag attempted to start another lame Apple “scandal.”


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Revolutions in New Media Douchebaggery

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There was an exam­ple of nar­cis­sis­tic New Media Douchebag fuck­wit­tery this week that actu­ally forced me to pause, take a break to record this weeks Angry Mac Bastards pod­cast, and come back to the fes­ter­ing pit of stu­pid just so that my blood pres­sure didn’t spike so high that my eye­balls popped out of their sock­ets. And what, you might ask, was the dim-witted doltish­ness that caused such a reac­tion? Well, ’twas the infu­ri­at­ingly self-absorbed response by Anil Dash to Malcom Gladwell’s recent arti­cle in The New Yorker titled “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted.”


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What New Media Douchebags Know About Economics…

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…col­lec­tively couldn’t fill a thim­ble. Witness a recent dose of insi­pid­ity from Seth Grodin, who is some sort of mar­ket­ing guru or some such twad­dle. Seth makes the argu­ment that we are cur­rently expe­ri­enc­ing two reces­sions. One, the cycli­cal eco­nomic one that all sane peo­ple mean when they say “reces­sion,” and one that is noth­ing less than the death of the Industrial Era.


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Winer Doesn’t Get It: Net Neutrality Edition

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Yeah, it’s a Dave Winer fes­ti­val around here lately. What can I say, the crazy old fucker keeps hand­ing me easy mate­r­ial. Today’s gem is Ol’ Man Winer’s first ever post on net neu­tral­ity, coin­ci­den­tally titled: My first piece on “net neutrality”


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Reboot RSS Straight Up Your Ass

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If there is one thing that New Media Douchebags love to do more than every­thing else it’s reboot­ing shit. Why should gov­ern­ment and indus­try lead­ers pay atten­tion to actual experts when they have the never end­ing cesspool of wis­dom from the likes of Anil Dash, Robert Scoble and Dave Winer to pull from? And if you’re Dave “get off my lawn, and by lawn I mean RSS” Winer, then you absolutely want to “reboot” RSS. Thus we have a post from last Monday on Scripting News titled How to reboot RSS.


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Dave You Ignorant Slut

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Sometimes the New Media Douchebag cir­cus is too good for the freak-show and needs to be in the main ring. Case in point, today’s twad­dle from Dave “Cranky-Pants” Winer, Dear Apple, re your boy­cott of Flash. Ooh, goody, goody gum­drops. It’s crit­i­cism in epis­tle form; my favorite thing.


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