And there is a third -- those who criticize without doing a tiny bit of fact-checking first. Either on his own or with others, Dave Winer has created a lot of

And there is a third -- those who criticize without doing a tiny bit of fact-checking first. Either on his own or with others, Dave Winer has created a lot of the tools we take for granted for today. Outliners, RSS, OPML, podcasting, roll-your-own blogging tools, etc. I don't know him personally, but I've been reading his blog and DaveNets for over 10 years. Go back and do some digging and you'll find he's the real deal. Regardless of what you feel about him personally, his point is valid. There are plenty of other efforts out there to create a forked version of Facebook (and Twitter, for that matter). Why puff up some guys who haven't actually written any code yet? Most folks would call that what it actually is -- vaporware.