{"id":1632,"date":"2007-08-12T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/08\/12\/days-of-our-lives-the-blogosphere-edition\/"},"modified":"2007-08-12T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T15:16:26","slug":"days-of-our-lives-the-blogosphere-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/08\/12\/days-of-our-lives-the-blogosphere-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of Our Lives, the blogosphere edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess it wouldn’t be a weekend without some kind of pissing match or emotional upheaval in the schoolyard<\/strike> blogosphere, and the current candidate is a high-profile sparring exercise<\/a> involving Jason “Mahalo” Calacanis and Dave “I invented RSS” Winer. <\/p>\n

In a nutshell, Jason got up at Chris Pirillo’s Gnomedex conference and talked a lot about Mahalo.com, his “people-powered search” startup. No surprise there — Jason is a promoter’s promoter.But some people took offence at the promotional flavour of his remarks, including Dave (although Dave has pointed out that he wasn’t the only one, and Wired notes<\/a> that Chris Pirillo himself made similar comments on Twitter).<\/p>\n

If you want to catch up, there’s Jason’s response to Dave<\/a> on his blog and Dave’s initial response<\/a> and follow-up<\/a>. Stowe Boyd has some thoughts<\/a> about how Dave tends to be a loose cannon at conferences, as Blake Ross (ex of Firefox) and others can probably attest.<\/p>\n

As I know from personal experience<\/a>, Dave is notoriously thin-skinned — kind of surprising for a guy who has been blogging since most of us were in kindergarten, but still a fact. He even takes Steve Hodson to task at Winextra for describing his remarks at Gnomedex as being “pissy.”<\/a> Robert Seidman, meanwhile, goes with the term “chucklehead.”<\/p>\n

Dave maintains that his comments were all about how Mahalo isn’t a platform that developers can work with, and seems upset that everyone focuses on the tone of his remarks instead of the substance. But there’s an easy solution to that: don’t be so pissy about it in the first place.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b><\/p>\n

As always, my mesh friend Loren Feldman at 1938media has a way of putting everything into perspective with his Gnomedex Thoughts video<\/a> (thanks to Allen of Centernetworks for the link). And it seems that Jason and Dave have made up, according to a Twitter post — I refuse to call them “tweets” — from Jason, in which he said: “Accepted Dave… and as always I respect your ideas greatly and am always open to hearing how you think any product can be better. “<\/em> <\/p>\n

Dave has apologized (at least sort of) here<\/a>, but in true Wineresque fashion, he apparently couldn’t let things rest and so has posted a number of suggestions for Jason on how he could apologize as well<\/a>. Classic. Still can’t get enough of this topic? There’s more at Wired’s Epicenter blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I guess it wouldn’t be a weekend without some kind of pissing match or emotional upheaval in the schoolyard blogosphere, and the current candidate is a high-profile sparring exercise involving Jason “Mahalo” Calacanis and Dave “I invented RSS” Winer. In a nutshell, Jason got up at Chris Pirillo’s Gnomedex conference and talked a lot about … <\/p>\n

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