Dave Winer posted a comment today about misinformation he's read recently in blogs. The comments he mentions are comments about himself. Somewhat understandably he doesn't link to them as this would take more traffic to them. However this lack of linking means the other users of the internet are not aware where these sites are. Instead we are left to do our own searching of blogs to find them and link to them. Doesnt' that break the whole concept of blogging? As Dave says, and all should know, the information you get on blogs is not 100 percent accurate.

Dave Winer posted this announcement today. Here is my prediction.... Sales of Manilla and Radio will go up.

Why would the sales go up when the core is going to be given away? For a history I look back at my own history with UserLand's products. I had read a little about Frontier and was quick to start using Clay Basket. Later in 1996 I started using Frontier and quickly fell in love. But it was far more than a product. In those days Frontier was a freeware product (not open source) and there was an active community supporting it. Frontier had a wonderfully logical methodology of editing scripts (outlines) and was extremely powerful after a few quick scratches of the surface. Then came the dark days... with a need to be paid a fair amount for a software package Frontier became a non-freeware product. I completely understand the need for the development to be paid for and do not take issue with the decision. It had, however, unfortunate consequences in terms of the community. At the same time the community became more tightly focused around the brilliant minds at UserLand and in the eyes of an average user withered and changed.