Dave Winer on Bruno Pedro

Is the World socialist?

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:18:13 +0000

Revisiting an old story by Dave Winer: Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. Rand is best known as author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She developed a philosophical system called Objectivism.

If you want to go back to the point where we decided to be socialist and try to undo it, you’re going to have to kill most of the people on the planet who depend on the current system for sustenance. And like it or not, that probably includes you. It certainly includes most of the idiots running around preaching Ayn Rand these days. – in The World is socialist

Re: Afternoon sellout notes

Mon, 10 May 2010 22:50:03 +0000

Dave Winer praises Dropbox technology and goes further by suggesting that everyone should be able to run their own private servers:

(…) the technology that Dropbox has mastered is so important that there should be an open source equivalent that we can all deploy, so we can have Dropboxes for sensitive info we don’t want to share with them (…)

I’m a happy Dropbox user myself and I went looking for options. Well, there isn’t an out-of-the-box open source equivalent to Dropbox but you could easily build one:

Re: Where is RSS? on Scripting News

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:14:32 +0000

This is a post to test a communication flow using a feed reader and a blog post as a “distributed twitter”.

Read the original story: Where is RSS? on Scripting News.

RSSCloud, a PubSubHubbub alternative?

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:41:21 +0000

Great news for all RSS advocates: Dave Winer somehow convinced Matt Mullenweg to automatically support RSSCloud on all WordPress.com blogs.

Quoting ReadWriteWeb, who apparently broke the news:

All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud. There is currently only one RSS aggregator that supports RSSCloud, Dave Winer’s brand-new reader River2. That will probably change very soon.

If you have a WordPress.org blog, you can easily install the recently launched RSSCloud plugin, by Joseph Scott, an employee of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.