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Sunday, November 11, 2001 Dave Now Quoting Humpty? Doc recaps recent speculation about non-digital analogues and precursors to weblogs. But Dave Winer retorts that "there is no such thing" -- a curious POV for a man who runs weblogs.com and has been responsible for so much of the development of the form. He does put a smiley on the statement, so maybe Dave has more of a sense of humor than I've given him credit for lately. Is it possible I've misjudged the guy completely? Hmmmm.... this is a disturbing thought. Just yesterday, I quoted Humpty Dumpty's infamous dictum: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." I thought this a rather devastating counteragument for Dave's revisionist etymology of "meme" -- but now I'm not so sure. Now I'm beginning to think he's really a surrealist in techno-drag, because listen to how he defines "weblog" today: When I sat down and tried to piece it together, this is what I came up with. It's just the Web, nothing more nothing less. [italics mine]Now I'm beginning to see. Winer is just a LOT smarter than I thought, and he's beating me at my own game. The guy is a black-belt Meme Master and he's simply been messing with my head! 10:20 AM | link | 
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