Okay, yesterday I noted the need to sort the “wheat from the chaff” in blogs and podcasts. Now, you wouldn’t expect Dave Winer, pioneer of blogging, XML-RPC Frontier and Manila, to come into the ‘chaff’ category - but yesterday’s podcast is pretty dubious!

Scan forward to 1m 55s, and you’ll hear Dave’s… rendition of ‘Dixie’ - him ’singing’ with a MIDI file (played through a terrible software synth)…

On today’s podcast I ponder…:
On today’s podcast I ponder the possibilities for tomorrow’s broadcast podcast for KYOU-AM in San Francisco. More singing this time with the MIDI of Dixie. You’ll have to wade through it to get to the talk. Also includes philosophy from Ed Cone and Rogers Cadenhead.

(Via Scripting News.)

Winer also posted an expletive-laden entry criticising Adam Curry’s claims to have invented Podcasting:

I winced a half-dozen times reading this interview with Adam Curry. He didn’t invent podcasting, he didn’t figure out that RSS would be a good transport. And he didn’t write the first iPodder. Here’s what Adam actually did do. He figured out the last yard was important and worked tirelessly to get people to listen to him. I was the only one who did, and I turned that idea into RSS with enclosures, and wrote the first iPodder, in 2001, three years before Adam claims to have done all this stuff. I never denied him credit for his role in this work, quite the opposite, I praised him every way I could for his insight. I also did regular podcasts for a couple of months before he started. He was listening to them, calling me all the time, ecstatic at how I was reinventing radio. There are a couple of ideas in Daily Source Code that didn’t come from me, and for that Adam deserves full credit and our thanks. But these lies have gone on and on, he just doesn’t stop.

He then threatens to:

kick him in the ass, and then look him in the eye and say “Shouldn’t have lied so much, dickhead.”

Someone has not taken all of zee pills zis morning, no?