Dave Winer writes,
See, sometimes when writing in this mode, something that’s not politically correct, or inadvertently not politically correct, sneaks out. Shit happens. Before I can correct it, some blogger somewhere has launched a holy jihad and is experiencing the rush of body chemistry that comes from it. And then I spot the bit of vulnerability (sometimes it’s just a spelling or grammatical mistake or an awkward wording) and make the change and save it, and oops, the flamer has nothing to flame about. There’s a bit of a fallacy in their ire, because they don’t have to give back the endorphins, but maybe they’re hoping for a double-dip. I have many new assholes cut in this manner. Yet I still persist in real-time writing, when the spirit strikes me, as it does today.
Translation: Dave is unwilling to take responsibility for the things that he posts on Scripting.Com. Things that might be too hard to justify simply go into the memory hole.
This is one of the differences between him and “bigpub” journalists — the journalists may get things very wrong, but at least they are accountable.
Winer tries to have it both ways — he wants to write the first thing that comes to mind no matter how politically incorrect or downright rude it might be, but on the other hand he wants to shirk responsibility for the words he writes.