{"id":854,"date":"2014-07-07T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=854"},"modified":"2014-07-07T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T16:38:13","slug":"dave-winers-pragmatic-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Dave Winer&#039;s Pragmatic Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not been paying much attention to Dave Winer recently. But it turns out he&#8217;s launching a <a href='http:\/\/happy.smallpict.com\/2014\/06\/27\/happyFriends042.html'>bunch<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/little.porkchop.io\/\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/littlecardeditor.com\/\">stuff<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA tool to slice long stories into &#8220;tweetstorms&#8221;? A <em>meme creator<\/em> that posts directly to Facebook? A tool to prioritise tweets from important friends? What&#8217;s going on here?\n<\/p>\n<p> Dave doesn&#8217;t trust major platform vendors an inch. But he&#8217;s obviously decided that at this point, you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em. So you&#8217;d better join \/ embrace (and extend) them.<\/p>\n<p>I guess also some of the problems he had with the Fargo server last year are pushing him towards clients to other people&#8217;s servers. So faced with a world that insists on using Twitter and Facebook as its transport protocols, the question he&#8217;s answering is how to make the authoring tools he wants, sit on top of those protocols.<\/p>\n<p>Update : Dave has a short <a href=\"http:\/\/static.scripting.com\/myReallySimple\/2014\/07\/07\/davecast2014jul07.m4a\">podcast<\/a> about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not been paying much attention to Dave Winer recently. But it turns out he&#8217;s launching a bunch of stuff. A tool to slice long stories into &#8220;tweetstorms&#8221;? A meme creator that posts directly to Facebook? A tool to prioritise tweets from important friends? What&#8217;s going on here? Dave doesn&#8217;t trust major platform vendors an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,344],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dave-winer","tag-platform-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}