dave winer

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Open Source Tweeting

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 20:51

Can we liberate tweeting from Twitter? It's an open question. And it's one that Dave Winer hopes we can answer, in response to his post We need: An open source Twitter shell.

He begins,

It would do more or less exactly what the twitter.com website does.

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Screw popularity. Just make yourself useful.

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Fri, 01/09/2009 - 09:39

That's the killer lesson of Dave Winer's new apporach to noise-filtered tweeting.

"Friends" and "followers" aren't what matter. If you want substance, you need useful inputs. Not volume. Not style.

Not popularity. Those have their places, just not in your face when you're looking for useful and interesting stuff.

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Cycles and Simplicities

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Fri, 12/05/2008 - 07:38

Om Malik calls this "dave winer's best post of the year".

I can't recall a better one, but ranking isn't what matters here. What matters is perspective and experience, and Dave has plenty of both.

What he says is,

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