Comments on: Scripting.com Blocks TechMeme

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:06:34 +0000

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By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:55:51 +0000

Interesting decision. Would like to know more on what the experiment is for.

By: [kbox]

[kbox] — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:14:08 +0000

Dave Winer? Whiner more like.

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:39:24 +0000

I stand corrected!

By: Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:11:07 +0000

It’s true! Mike puts a lot of thought into his bullshit.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:37:29 +0000

our bullshit is NOT mindless, Dave.

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:25:59 +0000

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:25:10 +0000

FYI, the number of hits on my site has not changed measurably since turning off TechMeme. And unlike Mike, it was never a source of much flow for Scripting News. I was shocked when I saw how much traffic it was generating for TC.

And it’s given me a better sense of why I blog — to remember links for myself, it’s a form of bookmarking, and to share ideas with people who have minds and use them. Sorry, but so much of what is on TM is mindless bullshit these days. I’ve been looking for an appropriate place to say that, and it seems this may be it, given how much mindless bullshit there is here.

See the smiley! That means I like you.

By: Ed Reif

Ed Reif — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:16:10 +0000

The Virus has mutated-
Hay be part of the new(er) media experience— in my new mashup, http://hotelany...idol-meets.html

Think American Idol meets Survivor with The Apprentice. Who gets voted off the island? Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Hired or fired? Do you Digg it? Use reality tv groundrules, and VOTE!

Hotel @nyware is paying the 2000 bloggers off in social currency. This is an open source call out there to vet out the 2000 to Hotel @nyware’s new Z list of 150.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:10:39 +0000

If you don’t know who Dave Winer is, then you didn’t follow the birth of podcasting or RSS. I appreciate Dave’s contributions. But, this is exactly why I stopped listening to his podcasts and reading his blog. Anyhow, he had promised he would stop blogging, so why bitch about this now?

http://www.scri...illStopBlogging

By: Adrian Keys

Adrian Keys — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:28:42 +0000

Really a strange request but whoever David Whiner is, given this strange 2.0 world maybe he knows something we don’t know.

By: A real software man

A real software man — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:58:46 +0000

I don’t like Scripting.com and I had this feeling for a few years. Why? Because I think Scripting.com should be, well, about.. scripting. Just like Developer.com is about development, etc.

A really good news would be if David Winner sold the Scripting.com domain to somebody who wanted to write about scripting, and continued his blog on another domain. That would be generous of him, and the right thing to do.

By: Kula bácsi

Kula bácsi — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:52:22 +0000

Who is this David Whiner?

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:42:03 +0000

…so, that would mean TechMeme took note of other people’s links to his blog, but not links from his blog to other people’s. Share the love, eh.

By: Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:12:29 +0000

Dave has updated his stance to say he actually wants the effects of rel=nofollow.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:31:21 +0000

An item on TechMeme is usually a cluster of different views on an idea. Thus somone’s contribution is seen as one of many – and presumably there may be a dilution of linkage. There is rarely One True Originator of an item, and there’s no way for a person to “moderate out” viewpoints with which they disagree.

Clearly adds up to an anathema to anyone who strongly believes in their own importance. But it’s the way of the web.

By: Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:56:46 +0000

A link should be made between this story and the Wikipedia nofollow controversy, I think.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:19:33 +0000

Interesting. How can this be a big news on techcrunch? Maybe it is a big impact thing:)

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:17:35 +0000

Ronald, I am with you my friend. Thanks for the list, i’m glad I came back.

By: Ronald Lewis

Ronald Lewis — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:46:06 +0000

I am so *&^%$%# tired of these “A-list” bloggers with their noses trapped in the Stratosphere. When will you all learn that blogging is about community? You cannot stay in your own little worlds forever.

Kudos to Tino Buntic for starting his “2000 bloggers” list — this is starting to spread like a wildfire, and it includes a diverse list of bloggers. This is an example of community, and other bloggers are taking note, and sharing the list:

http://tinobunt...0-bloggers.html

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:39:27 +0000

To me, this is all transparent.

When you tell someone not to look at you, that person’s natural inclination is to look.

Its a publicity stunt in disguise.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:00:00 +0000

not sure why mr. Winer didn’t just come out and say what he meant instead of cloaking his reasoning in sloppy, ambiguous language, but a couple of folks seem to have gotten the point – he’s saying he’s losing traffic – or not gaining it as fast as he would like/expect – something along those lines.

it reminds me of a Chomsky quote – which i’ll remake on the fly:

“If you want to stop being popular in the blogosphere,
there’s a really easy way – stop participating in it.”

on garmin: that stupid map monster thing looks like a terrible superbowl ad they’re doing:
http://garmin.b...ady_f.html#more

By: dLook

dLook — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:55:19 +0000

If Dave’s comments were aimed at getting you to post the Techmeme site on the Techcrunch front page (conspiracy theory) then it worked.

Personally I cant see any other motive.

http://dLook.com.au

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:27:05 +0000

Did someone hack into Garmin’s website? http://www.garmin.com

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:16:02 +0000

I haven’t read Dave’s blog in months… My comments were sometimes moderated (read: deleted), and the discussions were *strongly* political (I can’t emphasize that enough). Again, it’s been months since I’ve visited his blog so I don’t know what the content is like now, but I refuse to type the URL into my navigation bar for fear of politics.

Sorry Dave, I get enough politics (everyday) at home, on the news, and most forums I visit – I really don’t need it in my “entertainment”.