Dave Winer

"II think we're dealing with two things: 1. No APIs. 2. Everything is in a silo. 3. Owners of news orgs are driven by fear not creativity. Not sure if there isn't a #4 but it's late. ;-)" - Dave Winer

"David Carr, a NYT columnist, said in a Sept 2014 piece, that at least some of the reporters were applauding. "When the expected reveal came, there was a huge roar, and I looked around to see many of my fellow journalists clapping their hands red. I was an interloper in the land of tech announcements, but I was surprised that a group of cynical-by-nature reporters had been so completely won over in the moment." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09..." - Dave Winer

"We do. http://myword.smallpict.com/20... That pretty much lets you do anything. ;-)" - Dave Winer

"http://myword.smallpict.com/20... I also am going to add the ability to put startup code in config.json. Could be useful. ;-)" - Dave Winer

"I'm going to make my editor completely and easily replaceable. You'd be exactly the guy I'd like to see pick this up. ;-) Hehehe. Evil laugh." - Dave Winer

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T..." - Dave Winer

"I like that you have comments here! :-)" - Dave Winer

"First comment!" - Dave Winer

"Looks like a programmers editor." - Dave Winer

"This is the best feedback I've gotten so far. Keep thinking about this Jeffrey and thank you. ;-)" - Dave Winer

"I'm not asking about which editor program you use. I'm asking about an editor to drop into MyWord Editor. I tried to make that clear in the post." - Dave Winer

"Ted the two I looked at most closely were medium.js and Dante. http://jakiestfu.github.io/Med... https://github.com/michelson/D... The genre of editor that makes the most sense is one that's trying to mirror the Medium feature set. That's what both these editors aim to do. It looks like Dante is the more complete of the two. But there are other drop-in editors written in JavaScript. I wanted to cast a net as wide as possible to see what would come back. This is a decision lots of other people have had to make. For example, what does Ghost use? They had the same decision, though a while ago." - Dave Winer

"What if something actually happens on April 1." - Dave Winer

"That's a problem with your browser. It works fine here in Chrome/Mac." - Dave Winer

"On my Internet you could say Google is dead, and it would be true." - Dave Winer

"For example on my Internet, there is no Google." - Dave Winer

"When I was new in Silicon Valley, in the 80s, the wunderkinds from Apple thought that after they finished taking over the computer business they'd go fix an African country." - Dave Winer

"I think that's what she means too, but I still want to see an example, to be sure." - Dave Winer

"Remember I've been down this path twice, with Manila and Radio UserLand. The reason it'll work better with MyWord is that the UI will stay focused on the new user, and the complexity will add out from a simple core, where the things newbies want to do quickly are the only things that are in your way, so it's hard to miss. WordPress made a fundamental mistake, imho, in the way they organized the UI. They spread it all out uniformly. As a result you have to dig through lots of layers of UI to find things that are very commonplace. I know this well because I've coached a few low-tech users through using WordPress, and I myself have a low tolerance to complexity and get overloaded quickly. WordPress gave up on the battle against complexity at startup. Once you've built your functionality tree that way, you can't really change it. I know that because I've made those mistakes myself, in the early days with Frontier. You don't want to go too fast just because you can. The mistakes you make..." - Dave Winer

"Still not sure I understand. Can you post a pointer to an example of such a blog." - Dave Winer

"BTW, this is what a MyWord post looks like.. http://myword.io/users/davewin... Dave" - Dave Winer

"I agree with you up to the last point. We need Twitter's identity, because it's a no-brainer for Twitter users. They just need to trust me, and the software, not to trap them or their ideas. What we use for identity only matters insofar as it's not an impediment to people using it. That's why Twitter is the right choice." - Dave Winer

"I've never heard the term "descending posts" -- what does it mean? I'm sure it will eventually get all the features users want. ;-)" - Dave Winer

"Chris, that's what I've found out too. You can't work with VCs. They won't take any risks on open ecosystems, but they are happy to profit from closing them after you go to the expense and trouble to create them. They basically are parasites. The answer is very simple, work with other people like yourself. I am one of them. ;-) I keep having to learn this lesson, btw. I wrote about it in the closing paragraph of a blog post I wrote 18 years ago. http://scripting.com/davenet/1... My pitch to programmers, which is far more revolutionary than any programming language or operating system can be, is to look for understanding where you find it, work with people you want to work with, and don't waste time with people who won't listen and aren't grounded in the truth." - Dave Winer

"This is a great, timely question, and it inspired a new post in this series. http://scripting.com/2015/03/2... Thanks!" - Dave Winer

"It basically would be a poor substitute for a web page with JavaScript. People idealize Hypercard, but it was bitmap graphics on a very low-rez low CPU bandwidth machine. The web is hardly ideal, there are lots of ideas from the 80s that should be in the web as standards, but Hypercard, imho, doesn't have any of it." - Dave Winer

"http://static.scripting.com/ph..." - Dave Winer

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"Doc nails pretty much everything, but you're right, that piece was incredibly insightful." - Dave Winer

"I parameterized this in the latest release. So the installation can say what its googleAnalytics account number is, and we'll tell Google." - Dave Winer

"See #5 above." - Dave Winer

"BTW, MyWord Editor is going to be competitive in ease-of-use and power with the other blogging systems. The reason to use it won't be the unique architecture, for most people. It'll be that it's the best blogging system. This is something I know about, and I'm not happy with the way blogging tools have evolved." - Dave Winer