What can you do except quote
him, verbatim?
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
I did a one-hour Gillmor Daily yesterday with Steve Gillmor.
Okay, Steve Gillmor is going to like this chain of logic. John
Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. No argument,
it was true, they were. Well, even though the vast majority of
people have never heard of Steve or myself [Dave Winer], we're more
influential than John Lennon or Bob Dylan ever were. We're media
hackers. It's true they led a media revolution in the 1960s. But
we're hacking media in the 21st century. How do I know? Well who's
the biggest podcaster? (Okay for sure you think I'm going to say
Dave Winer, but I'm not.) The biggest podcaster is, sad to say Rush
Limbaugh, and he knows it too. But that's only temporary. Limbaugh
is a radio star. We're going to have our own stars. Limbaugh is
good for this medium, much better than the other guy who every one
thinks is number one. Rush is a star, the other guy is a DJ. But
Limbaugh ain't Dylan or Lennon or even Jesus.