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My friend Dave Winer has shared a moment regarding his concern that not all on #joiito hold him in the highest esteem. My advice is to let go of it. I don’t know anybody who knows anything that doesn’t agree that Dave’s work has been seminal and that we all owe a lot to him and that his creativity continues to flower and that the industry is fortunate to have such fine fellows as him hard at work for the common good.

In fact, it may be a little over the top of Dave to suggest that the habitues at the #joiito channel have much to say one way or another about him. I’m an IRC newbie and the #joiito channel is a good place to pick up skills and tune into conversation by some very forward looking technologists. A lot of them are young people with their best work ahead of them and a lot of them talk about that work.

I guess I’d have to say that on Berkman Thursdays there may be some discussion that includes reflections on Dave. Dave is the catalyst for the Thursday night meetings that are webcast, hence heard around the world. I tuned in last week and heard Dave call Carville an asshole… at least that’s what I thought I heard and I fed it down the wire. Someone else on the channel reflected that Carville would probably accept that as a compliment. Nobody said an unkind word about Dave.

One of the best parts of BloggerCon was the feedback loop the IRC channel gave us with remote webcast participants able to provide realtime comments about what they heard on the webcast.

Dave, if you’re reading this (and you probably aren’t because this humble blog is way beneath your line of sight, really), you might consider that you have a lot of friends on the #joiito channel and adding IRC to the Berkman mix would open up the whole conversation globally.