This is a great piece. Thank you.

Don't forget http://fargo.io/ — an outliner and blogging tool that runs in Dropbox.

Heh. Never heard that before.

I wonder what you're referring to.

No it made me happy because I got to write a piece on Gizmodo about it. :-)

Actually they happen all the time. People think they're being cute, and I understand that because sometimes I get the impulse myself. But verbally they might work, they don't work on twitter, partially because there's no intonation, but also because we're usually strangers. I have no way of knowing that the person is…

I think I made a mistake, but I don't think I did anything wrong. I had good reason to believe he was reliable, years worth of following him, and respecting is info and opinion. But if I RT'd one of his links in the future, I would be doing something wrong, and I won't do that.

Exactly the point of my piece. :-)

It's kind of funny to be called clueless (more or less) because we don't know things that haven't happened yet.

But they might have gotten a better deal from Amazon or Google.

Other people may have asked the question before, but this is the first time I have.

How about this remedy.

Hey Steve! What do you think of the web? If a kid growing up today has phone phreak genes, what should he or she be hacking on?

Respect yourself and you'll eventually get the respect of others.

Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? :-)

I'm definitely not an expert on that. I stopped watching MSNBC and CNN a few years ago. Occasionally I tune into them just to remind myself why I don't watch them. I've been very entertained lately with all the michegas over whether and when Mitt Romney was CEO of Bain Capital. But it's all just entertainment. A…

Not one thin dime. :-(

Yes indeed, it does. It shows what you can do if all the functionality is under one roof. Technically, if the people who developed RSS apps were willing to cooperate, we could have achieved everything Twitter does. But that was a big "if."

Yes I do. As blogs evolved, we all borrowed ideas from each others' work. The people who did Twitter were using my software, and vice versa. I'm sure they were influenced by what we were doing.

As much as I love you and Nick and the rest of the folks at Gawker, no — it's a publication.