Dave Winer says he’ll quit blogging
Blog pioneer Dave Winer, author of the “Scripting News,” has indicated that he plans to stop blogging by the end of the year to free up time and become less of a public figure–temporarily. “I want some privacy, I want to matter less, so I can retool, and matter more, in different ways,” he wrote at the end of a blog entry Monday.
Winer, who helped develop and promote RSS, is just one of several high-profile bloggers to leave the game of late. Jason Kottke, the daring soul who quit his Web design job in the hopes that micropayments from readers would support him, recently called it quits. And that followed Dan Gillmor’s news that he’d be ending his San Francisco Bay Area-focused blog, Bayosphere, to explore new projects.
We couldn’t reach Winer immediately for comment, but on his blog he wrote: “Probably before the end of 2006, I will put this site in mothballs, in archive mode, and go on to other things, Murphy-willing of course.”
If Dave Winer was any more full of himself, he’d fricking explode. I read one comment quoted from a blog called Airhead on C-Net which I think summarizes things quite nicely:
“So is Dave going to stop or is he simply looking for affirmation that he is still loved in the blogosphere?”
Knowing his ego, I’d say that’s the most likely case. If you’re gonna quit, do it gracefully and go away. If you’re going to come back, that’s fine too. But dude, the leadup to you walking away is simply a way to suck in as much ass-kissing as possible, and it really does nothing for your image.
Just leave. We’re all okay with it.
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