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Dave Winer writes about what he knows. Everyone has a rather narrow perspective. You could ridicule him for his narrow perspective, or, you can read the sentiment he's trying to convey and respond to that.

Is being unable to discern between a text's major point and its inessential detail a sign of maturity?

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No, Dave Winer writes in order to get attention to what he does. Now he's dabbling in javascript, so he drops javascript in everything he can; if the topic of the day were the cup size of Miss Universe, he'd write that javascript was invented to measure breasts. And of course, since RSS is his main claim to fame, that also must make it in the conversation at some point.

No that's not why I write. You don't have any clue about it.

I guess nobody has, to be honest. Maybe the WinerWatcher would have helped, in that regard.

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