The Times doesn’t have an exclusive on intellect. Their readers have quite a bit of it, and can get the information they want even if the Times doesn’t want to provide it. The Times is on much more precarious ground than internet leaking is.

"People who earn their living as journalists should bend over backwards to be fair to people who play a journalistic role without being paid for it."

What Dave Winer wants in a file sharing and storage app.

"it is not possible to do journalism in an environment where your writing can be taken down if the company hosting it deems it offensive."

"The good stuff is already outside of Twitter and flows into it. As long as we keep that going, then Twitter will keep the pipe open in the incoming direction -- they have to because without it there would be very little to see."

Dave Winer writes about why health insurance is so important.

Cool idea for tax breaks for buildings that offer bike storage in NYC.

"The mistake is not viewing this from the other end of the communication pipe. Listen to to the pitch from the other guy's point of view."

Dave Winer's got his minimal blogging tool up and running. Sounds cool.

Dave Winer muses on how to work with RSS feeds that don't have titles.

Dave Winer talks about Twitter's "dickbar."

"This will become more obvious over time. It's why we must develop systems that are equal to Twitter and Facebook, but that aren't so easy to block. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

We must make it so that a country, if it wants to turn off Internet-enabled revolution, must turn off the Internet itself."

"if what you're interested in is power to influence public opinion, and becoming more relevant over time, not more niched over time -- if being influential is what you're about, they really did you a favor."

Dave Winer's tips on merging journalism and programming. Great stuff.

"First, it's wonderful to see people get excited about the idea of a minimal blogging tool built around RSS. I think intuitively people are beginning to feel that it's time for something more than Twitter, and at the same time -- almost paradoxically -- something less than Twitter too."

"So to the extent you're locked in, that's the extent you are not on the open web. The perfectly open web has zero lock-in. The silos are totally locked-in and therefore not on the open web."

"Anyway, I wanted to revisit blogging tools in light of all that we now know about blogging, which is a lot more than we knew the first few times around, in the mid-90s to the early 00s."

"But they fail to notice that everything is dead the same way RSS is, including their employers, their jobs, their way of life, etc etc. Because things change, and first visions of new things, even things that become wildly popular, are usually wrong."

"It seems there's still time for a philosophy change in the news business. Become more focused on the commerce of your communities, and the opportunities to make money will become more apparent. Seems common sense to me."

Some thoughts from Dave Winer on what Twitter's vision should be and how they can approach being the news system of the future.

"Do you find that network installers hate to leave when the job is done? It always goes the same way at my house. When they walk in, they're bored and don't say much. When they finally see how my system is hooked up, they realize that I've got the nirvana they dream of. Yesterday I showed the cable guy how my receiver has a built-in HTTP server. The poor guy was blown away. It made complete sense to him, but his company is apparently far away from offering anyting like this."

Dave Winer's review of "The Social Network"

Dave Winer's thoughts about "angel gate" now that Aol bought TechCrunch.

Dave Winer's ideas for how to reboot RSS.

Dave Winer's proposal for a new way of handling blog comments.

The web isn't dead for Dave Winer.

Dave Winer's thoughts on how to boot a social network now.

Dave Winer questions a recent New York Times piece about ScienceBlogs.

Dave Winer's take on why Google Wave never booted up into a significantly successful platform.

Dave Winer discusses how Scripting2 will be set up to provide a turn-key solution for bloggers.

"So obviously one thing I value are people who make long-term contributions, who didn't have one great idea. I'm not into one hit wonders."

"Our tool is for serious web writers, the same way Photoshop is for serious graphics people, or a Nikon camera is for serious photographers. It's a truck, you have to learn how to drive it."

"What's needed, it seems to me, is a simple blogging platform, probably WordPress or Drupal, that could host all the science bloggers who wanted to be free of the corporate situation."

"If Canon isn't working on this now they'll be out of the low-end camera business in less than five years. That's how quickly the Apple/Google juggernaut is moving."

Dave Winer observes that New York is a city too big to work but, yet, somehow is running smoothly.

Dave Winer's well reasoned rationale for not conducting interviews with reporters.

"However, on the pages of the newspapers you hear voices of people who believe that corporations solve problems. They tell tales that never come true. "We have to find a solution" but the problem as they state it has no solution."

"Don't be fooled by the hype of the tech industry, the rules aren't what they say they are. It's much more cut-throat. I give Zuckerberg a lot of credit for putting his plan out there for all to see. That's a lot more than Google or Apple has done."

"I stay with RSS because it's solid, it works, and no one can tell me I can't use it."

"So in summary: I need to be able to isntall my own Twitter and move my presence to my own server, easily. And I need control over the look and feel of my site."