Tag Archives: winer

Tagometers and Travesties

You know you’ve truly arrived in Silicon Valley when the darling new feature you just helped launch on a Web 2.0 site gets shredded in a rant by Dave Winer. :) My day, having started with me in a foul mood, has been made. Pre-launch, the tooth marks in my tongue have [...]

Don’t Pee in the Potato Chips

So, I’ve expressed some renewed interest in tinkering around with the code behind the OPML Editor and NewsRiver. Well, it needs to be said that there are some strings attached to playing in this field: That is, these are Dave Winer’s potato chips I’m enjoying. And, well, when you’re taking chips from [...]

Ancient code drifting down the newsRiver

So, while working through some writing blockages last weekend, I started doing some hacking on Dave Winer’s newsRiver running on the OPML Editor platform. (Oh, and it is a platform, maybe more so than even emacs—don’t let the moniker ‘editor’ fool you.) Here’s the thing: It was a lot of addictive fun, and it [...]