Winer Swings and Misses…Again

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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Scoble’s Twitter Madness

Here’s another quick bit to remind peo­ple that noth­ing that Scoble says is of any par­tic­u­lar worth. If you read any Scooby at all, then you know that he is obsessed with point­less lists. This one though is per­fect as an exam­ple of the fact that Scoble’s opin­ion is essen­tially worth­less. In the arti­cle Robert states that he has a data­base of 11,000 tweets that he has favor­ited since June 2009. Let that num­ber bake into your nog­gin for a bit. Eleven thou­sand tweets favor­ited, not just merely seen by his account. That implies that Robert must have put at least some min­i­mal thought into the content.

Now let’s do some math. By my cal­cu­la­tions, there were 214 days from begin­ning of June 2009 until the end of December. If we assume that Scoble mon­i­tored Twitter every sin­gle one of those 214 days then that gives us 51.4 tweets favor­ited per day. If we then assume that Robert main­tains a twenty-four hour a day vigil, favorit­ing tweets like some sort of New Media Douchebag machine, then that works out to 2.14 tweets favor­ited per hour.

I keep stress­ing the “favor­ited” part of the equa­tion, because it’s impor­tant to remember

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New Media Entitletard Douchebags

Ye gods, get a load of the lat­est whiny new media enti­tle­tard douch­bag­gery from Michael “I make up quotes” Arrington over at TechCrunch. The gist of the mat­ter is a list of tech­ni­cal ques­tions to the Twitter team from Michael. While the ques­tions them­selves have some merit, the absolutely over­whelm­ing sense of new media enti­tle­ment sur­round­ing them makes me want to drink even more than usual. Earth to the inter­webs: Twitter is an amus­ing lit­tle diver­sion who’s avail­abil­ity, or lack thereof has fuck-all to do with the real world. I hate to say this, but I really hope that the bitch­ing and out­rage over Twitter’s sta­bil­ity is just enti­tle­tard douchebag­gery. One might almost hypoth­e­size that some par­ties might have a finan­cial stake in mak­ing Twitter look bad.