Winer buys Mac

Dave Winer, internet innovator, one time Mac user, and general blog grump (but in a good way) has plunked down some of his cold hard Userland cash and picked up an iBook. Why should you care?

Well, Dave is a smart guy (RSS? You can thank him for that. Blogs? He may not have invented them but he was darned close) and I am happy whenever smart people come back to the platform. However, Dave's most recent project is the OPML Editor which is an outliner/blogging/collaboration tool. There is a Mac version available, and I tried using it, however, my mother said if you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all (though Dave knows it needs lots of work now).

I'm hoping that since Dave now has a Mac the development of OPML Editor for the Mac will flourish and we Mac users can all enjoy using this potentially powerful piece of software, though it doesn't seem that Dave is enjoying his iBook as much as he is his new Airport Express.

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Source: http://archive.scripting.com/2005/08/24#When:1:18:26AM

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Steve M

You have to have met the Winer Bros. I worked with Peter for awhile back in the 80's, and met Dave at MacWorld around the same time. They are curmudgeons, like myself. Hard to find anything that they are every really happy with, but they only really critize things they think are worthwhile. When they don't talk about your company, you know they don't like you.

August 26 2005 at 1:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Scott McNulty

Steve, I was refering to the fact that Dave has made a lot of money from Userland, not that Userland the company somehow funded his Mac purchase (though in a way it did, but not because he is an employee).

August 24 2005 at 11:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steve Kirks

Dave Winer is not part of UserLand and hasn't been for a couple of years. Your statement that he "has plunked down some of his cold hard Userland cash " makes it seem like UserLand is involved. Nothing could be further from the truth. Steve Kirks UserLand Software

August 24 2005 at 10:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

"4. since when did ie handle RSS at all?" No joke. IE doesn't even do RSS, even on Windows, so what the hell is this guy smokin'?

August 24 2005 at 10:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

vanlandw

i can't wait for the day when i buy a computer it's considered news lol jk :-)

August 24 2005 at 8:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

human after all

since when did ie handle RSS at all? he seems quite up himself, and in my experience the truly intelligent people are usually the most modest

August 24 2005 at 7:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rajiv Perera

Maybe it is a $50 iBook from Henrico County!

August 24 2005 at 7:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I swear, there should be an H in that guys name because all I ever do is hear him WHINE about how much Macs suck, when he's just now bought one? I've never heard one positive thing come out of his blog. He hates Safari, hates the way it handles RSS, yadda yadda. The guy is annoying as hell. Obviously, he should have stuck with Windows.

August 24 2005 at 6:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jonathan

"Do they have a version of IE for this thing? I'd much rather use that than Apple's browser" Is he kidding???

August 24 2005 at 6:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply