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I think it's interesting that Dave Winer decided to do this as a blog post instead of a HN discussion.

Instead of having a conversation with the HN community he decided to have a conversation with his readers.

If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That's not what I "decided" at all.

I do my writing on my blog. That's the way I work.

Happy to participate in a discussion here.

That's still a decision.

What is your point?

I believe Dave Winer has always advocated writing on your own space and linking into the conversation. I feel this is very insightful advice and pro-web and really "getting it". I didn't get a chance yet to see what experiment Dave was building, his firehose, because scripting.com is down. But I'd give Dave the benefit of the doubt...

Huh? He's also the one who posted this to HN. It seems to me like he wanted to have conversations with both the HN community and his readers.

It would be stranger if he didn't post it on his blog. After all his blog has been around for almost 10 years longer than hacker news, was around before they were called blogs. Dave was also the guy that invented RSS.

Dave Winer did not invent RSS.

How is that different from Paul Graham's essays? They are always linked here and this is where the discussion takes place.

It's different because there is nowhere on Paul Graham's website where you can have a discussion about the individual essays(or at all).

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