An outpouring of recognition, reaction and thanks
Doc, Staci, Barb, Scoble, and others have all weighed in on thanking Dave Winer for his work. The sale of Weblogs.com seems like a good time to do that.
Danny Ayers and Jason Kottke seem concered with ’saving public ping - but remember Matt Mullenweg has ping-o-matic - so I think we’re covered.
I certainly agree with Jon Udell of what Verisign COULD do.
For me - well - clearly Verisign is not to be trusted - but what could they possibly do? Me and Roland are in sync on that one. I think what tantalizes me more than worries me is “what will they DO with Weblogs.com - really? What proactive actions will be based upon the infrastructure of Weblogs.com?”
Watching these old school Web 1.0 folks try to play in our world - is sort of like a sport to me. Much more entertaining than baseball or football.
Hold on there’s a knock at the door.
“Sorry - Dave’s not here”
So which one is the REAL Big Dave?
(inside joke)
BTW Here’s a good post on the deal.
October 10th, 2005 at 3:59 am
Marc, Dave does deserve a pat on the back for the role weblogs.com has played historically as a bootstrap. Coupla million sounds a reasonable pat
But at this point I think you’ve got the right question “what will they DO with Weblogs.com - really?”. The value of weblogs.com comes from the fact that a significant chunk of the blogosphere is pinging it - the value comes from bloggers, it’s not intrinsic to the service itself. My concern was how VeriSign will exploit this, they might just melt down the family silver for scrap.
October 10th, 2005 at 4:02 am
PS. I just saw the Moreover news. Will everyone else get the same access to the *community* data as VeriSign’s own service?