Dave Winer’s been going on and on about journalistic ethics, but how about getting some ethics of his own? Winer has a habit of talking about things that he doesn’t understand, but why was he dissing a site that he apparently didn’t even read?
In this post he disses the so-called warbloggers, apparently jealous of the attention they’ve been getting from the media,
While we do bash egos from time to time in TechBlogLand, we’re getting a lot more work done these days, using weblogs as the venue for sharing stuff. I like to tell the reporters that SOAP and XML-RPC, RSS and OPML could never have happened without weblogs. I asked the reporter if they could ask Glenn Reynolds to tell them when Hollywood is screwing computer users, or if they ever come up with a solution to the Microsoft antitrust case. And by the way, whose software do you think they use and do they even know how to use it? Andrew Sullivan just discovered permalinks a few days ago. Heh. Believe me there’s more work to do, and it’s going to be programmers and information mavens that lead the way.
BTW, I have something of an advantage, in that my blog predates the media rage that centered on the Pyra crowd, so I’ve been through this before. Someday Glenn Reynolds will be shocked to find out that he’s not the darling of the bigpubs anymore, then someone else will be blustering how they made him obsolete. It won’t be any more true then than it is now. This is meta-news. Boring.
At the time I thought the line about Hollywood and Microsoft was odd since Reynolds has indeed talked about intellectual property issues in the past, but I didn’t post because I’d filled my anti-Winer posts quotient for the month. But Winer’s post today is really outrageous,
OK, I admit it — I’m clueless.
No kidding!
What exactly is a warblogger?
I’ve been reading Glenn’s site every time it updates for the last few days. I don’t see a warrior. I see a mediator.
He links to differing points of view. He cuts through the rage and says “That’s not anti-Semitism, Jason. It’s just opposition to Israel’s policies.”
Is Glenn a warblogger?
If so — where’s the war?
So, Winer insulted Reynolds, Sullivan and other warbloggers without bothering to even read their sites. And he’s criticizing Dan Gillmor’s committment to journalistic ideals? Please.