It's more than that, though. If you were around in the 90s, you'd know that Scripting News was, like, THE weblog. Everyone read it. Bill Gates famously read

It's more than that, though. If you were around in the 90s, you'd know that Scripting News was, like, THE weblog. Everyone read it. Bill Gates famously read it, along with lots of other people in the tech world. Winer's writing was very, very influential in the Netscape era. In essence, a lot of today's tech pundits are basically trying to recapture what Winer had back in the day -- just like so many entrepreneurs are attempting to re-live the soda-drinking, pizza-eating, 24-year-old-with-an-IPO lifestyle of Marc Andreesen. I wish some of the people on here who don't have historical context wouldn't be so insulting and dismissive of people they know little about, aside from what others have told them. It doesn't make you look smart and snarky -- it makes you look young, naïve, and at least slightly arrogant. (And this is coming from an arrogant 24 year old, so ya know.)