Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 2/26/2009

Rocky Mountain News shuts down. http://bit.ly/G80iF
I think distributed Twitters are coming next. Too many "pro tweeters" with business models here. I'll have a scripting.com twitter soon.
Centralization followed by hypergrowth creates a too-tempting honey pot for the scammers.
Rocky Mountain News is twittering its last edition. http://bit.ly/o9g64
Too bad the RMN just started twittering their process as they're shutting down. Yesterday, I advised a blogger at the NYT to do the same.
We want to understand how the news organizations work. Not the mythology, the Woodward & Bernstein stuff, but the *real* story.
If TechMeme asked my advice: You're boring me to tears. The puffery of tech isn't interesting. Get me some NEWS.
Of course I look at Laconi.ca. http://bit.ly/2SdLcX
@clairecmc -- Twitter also helps you keep in touch with your fans in Calif. (Like me. )
Re a Twitter for scripting.com, there's a hackathon this Saturday for laconi.ca in Berkeley. At least that much should come from it.
Details on Berkeley Laconi.ca hackfest on Saturday: http://bit.ly/8I8ZK
Robert Reich: "Finally a progressive budget." http://bit.ly/MoKuC
"It is amazing that Twitter has created this need for shortened URLs and that Digg now wants a piece of that market." http://bit.ly/VOC4L
Of course the fact that Digg is building all this functionality around Twitter means they're probably doing their own Twitter.
April 2008: Why is RIM Opposing Twitter's Trademark Application? http://bit.ly/p5fzE
Digg is having a townhall at 5PM Pacific, a little over an hour from now. http://digg.com/townhall
Sylvia says newspapers are dying because they don't have news. http://bit.ly/Yu5NY
Went looking for a definitive piece about OPML reading lists, didn't find one on my site, but Mike Arrington wrote one. http://bit.ly/xQd8I
Chris "Hardball" Matthews called a Republican today on their deliberate hacking of the name of the incumbent party. Finally.
Maybe he's not such a meatball after all. :-)