Winer Whines
Dave Winer recently noticed his name absent from the Wikipedia page on blogging and went into full whining mode on his website:
I looked up blogging to find the names of some more obscure ones, the first hit was the Wikipedia page, and out of curiosity I searched the page for my name. It’s not there. All kinds of people get credit for building blogging as a practice and tools for blogging, but apparently, according to Wikipedia, I had nothing to do with it, nor did Scripting News or UserLand.
The same day Winer whined again on TechCrunch:
By coincidence yesterday I wrote up a long-standing issue I have with Wikipedia, that I don’t get any mention in articles on blogging (and also RSS though I didn’t mention that in yesterday’s piece). I’ve raised it quite a few times, even to the visionary, but since I’m not available for ‘fucking his brains out 24 hours straigHt’, the problem has never been turned over to his internal fix-committee, and people who want to know about blogging or RSS get the idea that other people did the work and took the risks that I did.
Hours later one of Winer’s sycophants fans had corrected this egregious error:
Done, changed. It now mentions scripting news and links to the wikipedia page “Dave Winer”.
The debate on his contributions to blogging aside, the only person who seems as childishly and consistently protective of his legacy as Dave Winer is Roger Clemens. Ironically, both come off looking worse for their efforts, blinded by ego.
