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May 14, 2005
Dave Winer "I created podcasting!"
Yeah, I wondered how long this was gonna last.
Dave Winer: "I winced a half-dozen times reading this interview with Adam Curry. He didn't invent podcasting, he didn't figure out that RSS would be a good transport. And he didn't write the first iPodder. Here's what Adam actually did do. He figured out the last yard was important and worked tirelessly to get people to listen to him. I was the only one who did, and I turned that idea into RSS with enclosures, and wrote the first iPodder, in 2001, three years before Adam claims to have done all this stuff. I never denied him credit for his role in this work, quite the opposite, I praised him every way I could for his insight. I also did regular podcasts for a couple of months before he started. He was listening to them, calling me all the time, ecstatic at how I was reinventing radio. There are a couple of ideas in Daily Source Code that didn't come from me, and for that Adam deserves full credit and our thanks. But these lies have gone on and on, he just doesn't stop."
Dave Winer again: "Thing is -- Adam's star is fading, again. At some point he's going to need some friends, and then I'm going to kick him in the ass, and then look him in the eye and say 'Shouldn't have lied so much, dickhead.'"See, thing is, Podcasting was cool when it first began. I listened to Adam's first podcasts and heard what was going on. I even made a few podcasts myself and put them online before all the hoopla began.
But then Dave Winer got involved and the smart ones of us jumped ship knowing a fight was coming.
This is just like Dave and the whole Atom thing.
For the record: I remember Adam talking about using ATOM with his Applescript iPod client because it supported enclosures then Dave said, "RSS 2.0 supports enclosures too!" So Adam started using RSS. It was after Dave saw people using Adam's Applescript client that Userland added the ability to download enclosures into Radio.
Dave Winer, You were a nice guy but recently something has made you a bitter man and you'd best figure it out before you lose all your friends. It's a cold, cold world when one doesn't have any friends.
Posted by Loyd at May 14, 2005 02:11 PM
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