Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 2/19/2010

Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot still alive. http://r2.ly/xksq
Big topic in NYC -- neighborhoods turning into suburban shopping malls. http://r2.ly/xkuz
This must sound arrogant, but I wonder what Google thinks would happen if they adopted someone else's format instead of reinventing it?
Do you think they would disintegrate? Fail to impress? (Quite the opposite.)
I invest a lot of energy in trying to protect the openness of the Internet from Google. Lately I'm beginning to believe it won't work.
AOL and Hyper-Local -- Good Luck With That. http://r2.ly/xkyq
Does it matter who you get news from? (Scripting News). http://r2.ly/2a4j
@terryontech -- did you read the piece?
@terryontech -- cool. hard to tell sometimes. thanks for the feedback.
This is what's under the streets in NYC. http://r2.ly/98t3
Eve Winer: Blogging as Therapy. http://r2.ly/98t5
Saw Shutter Island this afternoon. It was good, worth seeing, but not a masterpiece like The Departed.
@nakedjen -- between you and me, it's not that scary. only one scene where I had a hard time watching, and that's cause a phobia I have.
@nakedjen -- and there's a special reason for you to see it (not saying what it is, no spoilers).
@Khollingdale -- it's not necessarily the genre you think it is. the advertising is a little misleading. :-)
@nakedjen -- look forward to hearing what you think!
@nakedjen -- that's great. I'll be here too. let's hang out.
This guy is right. There's no way Google didn't know *exactly* what privacy issues it was walking into with Buzz. http://r2.ly/xn84
Gavin Newsom is on the SUL so he's better than Bloomberg, who is not -- so says the NYT. So random, so stupid. http://r2.ly/2b5f
@JRMcGrail -- he's on the SUL too