Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 2/22/2009

Apparently the same thing is going on on NBC -- it's just news people talking about the news. This is what's wrong with news. 100% meta.
Them watching themselves watching themselves watching themselves watching themselves, every news cycle another layer.
The stimulus *was* bipartisan. It passed, and to pass it needed Republican votes and it got them. Of course it was orchestrated.
The Republicans got to raise a stink and the stimulus passed. That was the deal.
Remember -- our culture is all about the mirrors, not the substance. 100 percent meta 100 percent of the time.
A piece I wrote in 1988 about outliners and programming, translated to Japanese. http://bit.ly/GeOYx
New blog post: Opening the newsroom, Step 1. http://bit.ly/NdlPj
@StreamFurious -- I think eventually OPML will be the biggest XML format on the Internet. But it's taking a long time. You can't hurry love!
@atul gets the best stories. Highly recommend following him.
A postscript to today's piece. http://bit.ly/oQqWO
Lots of great links today on @friendsofdave
Just checked, I should be getting my Kindle 2 on Thurs. Should be pretty cool! :-)
John Robb says Feedburner is broken. http://bit.ly/12vL2A
The Oscars in HD is pretty amazing.
My choices for the Oscars (not predictions). http://bit.ly/S9696
The cast of Slumdog Millionaire: http://bit.ly/mXTiF
No-nonsense Wikipedia list of Oscar winners. http://bit.ly/Px0Dw
One thing I never understood: What's the diff betw "rain" and "showers?"
1. rain > showers.
2. rain is to showers as snow is to flurries.