Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 5/18/2009

FF sucks, otoh, cause they keep changing how it works and they actually remove features that you use, w/o explaining.
I use these heavy training wheel systems cause so many others do, but soon that won't be enough. i like the open web. period.
I don't have to use Typepad to read one of their blogs. It's wrong that I have to use Twitter to read what you write on Twitter.
I don't care what excuse they offer -- it's wrong.
put another way -- i like the open web so much i'm willing to accept its limits.
smothered by twitter i have become more and more like a sucked orange
the sucked orange thing was a paraphrase of george orwell, who was talking about journalism. :-) http://tr.im/lKLb
try an experiment, don't use twitter for 24 hours.
@moehlert -- you'll see the ways you are disconnected from the people here. you will have an inventory of twitter's lock-in, the addiction
GPS system 'close to breakdown' http://tr.im/lKXu
RT @brianstelter At the ESPN upfront. (What's an upfront?)
I've learned from watching The NYT and TwitterCorp that most tweet so infrequently you could poll to get updates and lose nothing
I know single individuals who tweet more than everyone at Twitter Corp put together. They seriously are not into their own product
Wikipedia defines an upfront. http://tr.im/lM6E
There ought to be a speakers bureau for bloggers where you can register what kind of conferences you'd like to present at, etc.
After a year on Twitter, @jayrosen_nyu explains what mindcasting means to him. http://tr.im/lMXR
@JimRoepcke -- maybe so. Certainly a possibility.
Google Cofounder Larry Page Has Twitter-Envy. http://tr.im/lNoh
@BillSeitz -- maybe they use Yammer? :-)
@Gartenberg -- what are you wow-ing about??