For those who have never heard of Dave Winer, just move on now. For the rest, here's some more reaction to my hornet-nest-stirring column about San Francisco. I've had more feedback to that piece than anything else I've ever written, even pieces I did for the Financial Times. And the column hasn't even been published yet in print. The emails and weblog postings have been running about even. For half the people out there, they've always felt that way about SF, but never quite dared to say so. For the other half, I'm a turncoat. And that half includes Dave Winer, the irascible author of scripting.com. I was the victim of a Winer broadside, which is a rite of passage in Silicon Valley. His feelings were a bit raw, because one of his favorite haunts, the Good Earth, had just shut down. He's Silicon Valley's chief propagandist and provocateur, and this is a challenging time for someone in that position. Dave is a crotchety guy, but with a good heart. Not at all bland. No surprise that he's from the East Coast. A carpetbagger in his time. But in Silicon Valley long enough to give more recent immigrants a hard time.
· Dave Winer: Even as they leave they fuck us
· Winer on Silicon Valley and San Francisco
· A Talking Heads song about London, courtesy of Dave Winer
· Other weblog comments, courtesy of Blogdex