How did I know the bearded puppet would be Winer?

Only thing worse than a hippie is a bitter hippie.

Nicely done, Loren.

By Art Lindsey III on Apr 30, 2008

Hooray for the new puppets! This is gonna be fun.

By Omar G. on Apr 30, 2008

I fell off my damn chair..stop that your making me laugh too damn hard..

By Fred Grott on Apr 30, 2008

“i hate greek food”

By Dick on Apr 30, 2008

Like, far out man.

By Hauser on Apr 30, 2008

Haha, awesome! Will Shel interview Dave?

By Kevan on Apr 30, 2008

oh man, can’t wait for this one.

By Clintus on Apr 30, 2008

You had me at “hello”.

By Matt on Apr 30, 2008

Being a hippie was the best part of my life.

In fact, at this moment I’m extracting lysergic acid from morning glory seeds, in honor of the recent passing of Albert Hofmann, who gave us LSD, our medicine for the soul.

Put that in your bitter-ass pipe and smoke it, Art.

Peace and love, man.;-)

By Vince Williams on Apr 30, 2008

Check out smartmobs.com and that Reingold dude for all LSD related news.

By Greg on Apr 30, 2008

why is your blog called “1938 media” ? what does the “1938″ stand for?

By alex on Apr 30, 2008

I’ve always wondered how this guy thinks Scripting News (Started April 1, 1997) is one of the first blogs. We literally were so-called blogging as a publishing business in late 1995 or 1996. I’m sure others were before us.

By Nick on Apr 30, 2008

I hate geek food.

Ina-godda-davita…

P.S. Are you impugning Mr. Winer’s clear record in inventing politics?

By Prokofy Neva on Apr 30, 2008

How low can you go loren. Winer is a good-for-northing hack.

By LD on Apr 30, 2008

Please please please keep this up. In the UK we had something similar called spitting image and it killed our pointless politicians. kill the A-listers one by one.

Shel, Winer but please add scoble, calacanis and arrington. My bet is you are a jewish pussy and will not take on arrington, rivera and calacanis and will therefore ultimately fail to reach your goal/full potential.

The difference between success and failure is very small but you will fail to cross over to the mass market because like all jews you just want acceptance.

The reality is you are a chicken shit yid - like the holocaust jews just not brave enough to stand up and be counted. Like all pointeless jews you are missing a bit of your cock and you are also missing your balls to take on a puppet arrington.

By Luv on Apr 30, 2008

Man, Winer looks like shit. He needs to stop smoking so much dope.

By DJ on Apr 30, 2008

Dave invented rss.

So, in a sense, you make fun of him, but suck his teat every single day.

Hmmm.

By DJ on Apr 30, 2008

Luv,

Other then posting a bigoted post, do you have anything else to say? Arrington and Calacanis are good friends of his. I really doubt he’s going to make fun of his friends. Winer is a puppet, in part, because Winer has issues with Calacanis, a friend of Loren’s.

By MunchyMurielle on Apr 30, 2008

If this site becomes completely devoted to Web 2.0 puppet parody, I will be very very happy.

By Jimbo on Apr 30, 2008

I’d hate Greek food too if I hadn’t had the good stuff in Chicago. As for Jason Calcanis (sp?), I’ve been following his Tweets and surprised at his lack of stature and need to talk about name people he drops big dollars playing poker with. I like that Winer has THOUGHTFUL, social & political insights. The top email lists show more concern for the entertainment biz.

By Mo Skanse on Apr 30, 2008

Munchy/Luv: Loren already did some excellent Calacanis spoofs… search youtube for Jason’s Place

By S.P. Gass on Apr 30, 2008

The Jerry Garcia with short hair puppet is slightly disturbing to me, to be honest. Similar to Dave Winer himself, so it works.

And one more thing, briefly.

Nobody, and by that I mean ABSOLUTELY NOBODY (zero), cares who invented RSS, or blogging, or that stupid fucking ad that “peels the corner” of my screen and won’t go away so I end up having to throw my laptop at the guy with the bluetooth headset on the train.

9.8 out of 10 people do not, nor will ever even ponder for one second who “invented blogging,” for god’s sake. The vast majority of America, the part that works and spends no time building widgets on sproutbuilder.com, will never have a debate over whether Winer or Adam Curry “invented podcasting,” or whether Larry Sanger should get credit for Wikipedia.

I’ve never, ever, heard a single concrete guy in my entire life argue with his co-worker over who invented the finishing trowel.

And yet we have roads and sidewalks…

Fascinating.

By Dave Johnston on Apr 30, 2008

dopes

By Tiga Beck on May 1, 2008

Didn’t Pythagoras invent an improved version of the finishing trowel?;-)

By Vince Williams on May 1, 2008

Dave, True enough.
But, then again, the guy who invented pizza? If he was alive he’d never stop getting laid.

By DJ on May 1, 2008

“Only thing worse than a hippie is a bitter hippie.” - Art Lindsey, obviously an effing republicant

By jcunwired on May 1, 2008

@DJ - I invented pizza. I used Macromedia Shockwave 2000 to add just the exact right pinch of oregano to the sausage, then embedded it into my blog.

Of course…Adam Curry comes along, puts more cheese into the crust, takes credit, then scores all the hot East Coast women. Bob Dobalina.

Put that on fucking Wikipedia.

And stop using my initials.

By Dave Johnston on May 1, 2008

Wasn’t this taken care of via Objective-C 2.0’s generational garbage collection ?

By Greg on May 1, 2008

Between Shel and Winer you have more material to work with then hiring a bunch of lame writers..this thing is writing itself..of course you have Scoble a walking comedy.

Funny thing about Scoble is that he thinks he’s relevent. Can’t wait to see Fastcompany pull their heads out of their asses.

By unveilit on May 1, 2008

Dude, I am glad I was sitting on the floor when I hit the play button because if I hadn’t my PB and I would have almost certainly tumbled to the floor.

Anybody want to win some ‘fine’ Japanese junk food?

‘Win Junk’ Blog Site Survey

By Peko on May 1, 2008

It’s RSS Appreciation Day! Everyone gather around the PR fire and warm your hands. Ah. Do you smell money burning?

http://tinyurl.com/5vuvon

Since I don’t really know RSS (but love his work) I’d have to say that what I appreciate about RSS is the work ethic. Just doing it every day, in and out, same thing, again and again and again, without complaints. Sure, RSS gets bogged down now and again like all of us, but he just bounces right back up and gets back in the saddle. What a player!

What do YOU appreciate about RSS?

By DJ on May 1, 2008

Do Jeff Jarvis. That guy is such a frikkin dweeb

By frankie on May 1, 2008

Loren you are a genius. Have you ever seen spitting image puppets. It was a hot show in the 90’s here in the UK. It poked fun at all the celebs and politicians of the day. You are your growing band of puppets could emulate this.

An Arrington puppet that never sleeps, loses its cool all the time and keeps checking on charts to see if he is listed. Maybe he could have a little Gabe in his pocket.

Maybe everyone could suggest people/puppets for you and what they might be doing.

By Sam Smith on May 2, 2008

500 mics in a glass of orange juice and everything is beautiful.

I have to write this before my keyboard melts into the scenery.

I can’t stop smiling– I’m about to play Electric Ladyland.

By Anonymous on May 2, 2008

And the gods made love.

By Vince Williams on May 2, 2008