Darwinian Web
Adam Green's thoughts on the evolution of the Internet

Evaluating Dave's next goals

Posted on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at 8:46 AM (permalink)

So I asked Dave Winer what he wanted to do next, realizing that I would most likely have to adopt the same thing. That sounds absurd, but for good or bad it is largely true. Dave has adopted a strategy of setting clear goals and then coding, nagging, insulting, and herding everyone else into just doing it the way he wants. In the end people accept his standard or some extended version of it, because his is one that has enough backers to become defacto. That is his strategy: nag until defacto, move on. He knows it works, and increasingly others know it works. I was talking to a big Web 2.0 guy at the SSA conference last week, and he convinced me that OPML was worth using, if only because it got everyone one step closer. Dave has now listed his future obsessions. I'm going to think about them and reply over the coming week.