Tag Archives: Dave Winer

Reconsidering Carr’s citizen journalism essay

By Michael Becker | Published: November 17, 2009
A few days ago, I posted an excerpt from a TechCrunch arti­cle by Paul Carr, who argues that cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism — which he partly asso­ciates with the urge to grab a cam­era phone instead of try­ing to help — is noth­ing but ego­tism bor­der­ing on a detach­ment from human­ity. “As long as we’re all los­ing [...]
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Why Dave Winer stopped worrying and learned to love the Fail Whale

By Michael Becker | Published: October 18, 2009
Good stuff, as usual, from Dave Winer: The Internet abhors a fun­nel: “This might be one of those fun­da­men­tal Internet laws, or it may just turn out to be a way to express another one. The Internet is a bunch of pipes and tun­nels with proces­sors located at the junc­tions and at the ends of the [...]
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‘Today’s journalists are already an anachronism’

By Michael Becker | Published: May 10, 2009
Dave Winer responds to some of the crit­i­cisms he’s received lately from main­stream journalists. Today’s jour­nal­ists are already an anachro­nism, and I think they know it, and that’s why there’s so much anger. For many years they could pre­tend, like American home­own­ers, that their value was based on some­thing per­ma­nent. I own a home myself, [...]
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A frightening idea: Twitter becomes the News System of the World

By Michael Becker | Published: March 23, 2009
Over the week­end, Dave Winer posted his con­cerns (it “scares the beje­sus” out of him) about Twitter and the appar­ent iner­tia that is car­ry­ing the microblog­ging ser­vice toward becom­ing the “News System of the World.” His con­cerns are two: It’s a tech-world thing, and that sec­tor, he says, doesn’t take crit­i­cism well. It’s a com­pany, which means it [...]
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