Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 8/17/2009

Don Rickles on the Tonight Show with Carson/McMahon. http://tr.im/wxiI
We Reboot the News -- *live* -- in 1/2 hour. Tune in here --> http://tr.im/wx3J
I should say Don Rickles is one of my favorite funny men. If I think of Rickles when I read Andrew Keen, I laugh instead of weep. :-)
But sometimes I think Andrew is the Michael Palin character in "pining for the fjords." http://tr.im/wxFm
@bertil_hatt -- Don Rickles is a comedian who made his career out of insulting people like Johnny Carson. He was hilarious! :-)
Trading one centralized net for another? (Scripting News) http://tr.im/vUAo
Rebooting the News #21 ready to amaze, amuse and amortize. http://tr.im/wyoA
Tr.im to Go Open Source, Community Owned. Just posted a comment there with my own related announcement. http://tr.im/wyAp
Here's my open source announcement to go with tr.im's, in a Scripting News post. http://tr.im/wyDc
For background on the tr.im deal, listen to last week's Bad Hair Day podcast. Eric Woodward of tr.im was a guest. http://tr.im/wnoc
The tr.im deal is good for developers and users, not necessarily for VCs. That's why TechCrunch doesn't like it (an understatement).
However it's certainly not bad for VCs. Wish they would lighten up. Where's the harm?
Eric Woodward on the tr.im announcement. http://tr.im/wz2p
Ryan Tate thinks "Rupert Murdoch's Bluffing on His Pay-Wall Pledge." http://tr.im/wz59
@marshallk -- here's a definition of "scoble" --> http://tr.im/wzm5
"Twitlbl is an experimental service to provide contextual information about a tweet." http://tr.im/wzBf
VentureBeat's report on today's tr.im announcement. http://tr.im/wzBG
District 9 is getting great reviews. http://tr.im/wzRq
@nakedjen -- I have not seen it yet. Are you in Berkeley?
Archiving All of Your Twitter Followers Tweets via OPML, Google Reader, and Friendfeed. http://tr.im/wA3F