Dave Winer is having a conniption after Comcast terminated his account. I know, that’s pretty much par for the course for Winer, but one Winer comment* is worth the read:
I told him this wasn’t much of a threat if they weren’t willing to put it in writing, and I wasn’t intimidated. I also told him I was a blogger and would be writing it up. He didn’t care.
He told him he was a blogger and would be writing it up*? I’ve imagined repeating that line to anyone and simply can’t do it with a straight face. It’s like something from the onion but it’s real. It would be different if Winer was 15, but he’s in his fifties.
What did he expect? A quick apology and reconnected service because he was, gulp, a blogger?
And that is why I love Dave Winer.
*A close second was this comment:
Honestly, I think Comcast should give me my service for free and let’s work to create new services that use more bandwidth so they can sell them to customers as part of the upsell to people who use a lot of bandwidth.
**That’s not to say I don’t believe the web can be a powerful force. It certainly can be. And in the hands of Dave Winer, a comical one as well.