Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 2/16/2009

BBC: "There could be one hundred billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, a US conference has heard." http://bit.ly/15vv0Y
http://twitter.com/nytriver
Netbooks are "killing off" PC sales because the industry failed to create anything else that users wanted. http://bit.ly/8x9ji
And Happy President's Day everybody with a President! :-)
Lots of insight in the comments on yesterday's post about the earth in standstill. http://bit.ly/93iXO
Jimmy Carter was saying -- in the 70s -- as President, what Al Gore now says. We didn't want to hear, but he was right. http://bit.ly/93iXO
We elected Reagan to restore the fantasy that we could keep consuming indefinitely w/o cost, and he delivered. http://bit.ly/93iXO
Clinton could have been a Republican -- he did nothing to restore reality. Now, we are real, for a while at least. http://bit.ly/93iXO
A case study in American discourse. http://bit.ly/ZvrP2
Another big American thinker. http://bit.ly/g0rqs
With the new Facebook license I'm glad people are waking up to the need to be independent of UGC Corps, and that includes Twitter, folks.
@jack --> chairman of Twitter says: "Big week ahead of us." Maybe a new UI? That would give us something to twit about! :-)
New icon: Tilting at Windmills! http://bit.ly/yqUmi
I'd say the new icon is a big hit. @mal wonders who the other guy will be ==> The Sancholizer! Hah! :-)
Frum, a Republican asks: "Could we possibly act more inadequate to the challenge? More futile? More brain dead?" http://bit.ly/xMpH8
If you think Facebook's terms are obnoxious (I don't, btw) check out this report on Windows 7. Nasty stuff. http://bit.ly/6LEt6
Read this: http://kunstler.com/mags_diary25.html
If newspapers want public money, they have to open up to the public. No more gatekeeping. http://bit.ly/dfuRf
To begin, one unpaid volunteer reporter for every paid professional. Over time the ratio goes up.