• rik panganiban:
  True story: tonight’s date ended when she told me she had to go home to “wash the dog.”That said, I had a fun time and I think she did too.

@rikomatic I just spent minutes wondering how your date ended three hours ago when it’s only 11 PM PST, before I realized I’m also in PST.

MIT and DOJ are both down, apparently in retaliation for Aaron Swartz. Which, um, takes balls of steel, to DDOS the frickin’ DOJ.

• UberFacts:
  The Finnish work “pilkunnussija” means “comma fucker” and refers to someone who believes it’s their job to point out all spelling mistakes.

Hard freeze warning in Vegas. I *told* Harrah’s not to install that flying pigs display.

“@bizandtech: JSTOR says it mourns `tragic loss’ of Aaron Swartz http://cnet.co/WQ3IXI ” //Newsroom: “No one prays for the rope.”

• erika owens:
  Exhausted, but in awe of @opennews and the incredible Fellows. Thank you, @dansinker.

@erika_owens http://Socialmedia.biz ‘s list of conferences, some may be of interest: http://socialmedia.biz/2013/01/07/2013-conferences-social-media-tech-mobile-marketing/ …

• erika owens:
  @jeffporten thanks for the tip. Definitely trying to find all the relevant events listings for ideas.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  Here’s how maddening Winer is. I pledged years ago to never comment on him publicly. But this was so dickish, I had. What a small man.

• Kontra:
  @GlennF Did Aaron invent outlining? Indeed the notion of hierarchy and temporal aggregation? How then can he have any claims to RSS?

• Josh Centers:
  @counternotions @GlennF My understanding is that he coauthored the protocol.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @jcenters @counternotions No, not at all. It’s a long story. 0.x versions preceded 1.0 and evolved into 2.0

@GlennF @jcenters @counternotions There were years of competing standards. IIRC, Winer’s strongest claim is that term RSS won out.

• Josh Centers:
  @jeffporten @GlennF @counternotions I remember Atom & clients that supported one but not the other.