Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 2/19/2009

Another tangent -- An interesting train trip in North America?
I'm getting so many great responses to the questions I asked ==> Just wrote a script to capture the replies, so I can do a post about this.
Here's the script: http://scripting.com/misc/last100replies.html
New blog post: 3 questions on Twitter. http://bit.ly/d8vtn
One more question and I gotta go out. This one is pure fantasy. If you could travel through time -- where would you go if you had 3 days?
Steve Gillmor nails it with this screed: "Free Fred Wilson" -- I'd add -- From Fred Wilson. (With a big hug!) http://bit.ly/12ovCM
RT @stevecase, @loic, @kevinrose -- watch this video http://bit.ly/z1slo
We made the same mistake betw 1980 and 2008 as they made in the 1920's. The idiots who said deregulation was the way to go were idiots.
The regulations were there for a reason, to keep our economy from becoming a house of cards built on a ponzi scheme. Reagan == Coolidge.
@daveman692 -- What if Loic were President of California? Or Robert Scoble? Or the guy with the puppets?
"I'd say, screw around if you want, but it's your money, it's about to be my money, and I sleep fine." http://bit.ly/jN1vo
Why don't advertisers make adverts we'd want to download and pass on, instead of skip over. Been saying this for years.
I understand the rage over homeowner bailouts, but the govt did the same damn thing with investors last year. http://bit.ly/uwoAH
Truth is there was and is no choice. Want to live in the dark ages? An agrarian system with no currency? I don't. I like lattes and Twitter.
I'd last approx 5 minutes in a true meltdown. Hard truth ==> you too. You may think you're tough but you haven't been tested.
My Twitter influence is "developing." http://bit.ly/3hcTC
Glad I'm not at #timesopen. From what I hear on Twitter, I'd have a hard time listening to O'Reilly w/o objecting.
What's lost it seems is the huge role the Times played in bootstrapping the technology that Tim has made millions from.
@lisawilliams -- Thank them for their support of RSS 2.0 in 2002.
And thanks to the techies in publishing for getting behind what the Times did with RSS, that's how the standard happened.