Dave Winer and the Lost Orchestra Special

I was bought up in a musical meets religious middle class family that put most of its resources into their 3 son's education. For me there was 9 years of 30 minutes of daily music practise. Once highschool finished there was 8 years of uni, which I loved. (4 full time, 4 part time, 3 degrees later) My mum was a music teacher (piano, singing) but in later life went back to uni, studied theology, became an (anglican) deacon (i call it a deputy priest), and now she marries people (lots of weddings in the last year) and also does her share of funerals. (close relative last fortnight) As well as doing lots of outreach. One of the most fascinating characters I've observed in the blogosphere is Dave Winer. And to me, he's larger than life. I mean he invented RSS, podcasting, and I'm guessing in 2 years we'll say "Dave invented OPML" in the same way we rever RSS and podcasting. For me, when I was stuck at home at the start of 2005 and had this chronic psoriatic arthritis in my knee they couldnt diagnose, 30 years old (had never had a medical problem before except those of my own choice) podcasting, RSS and my Imac - (which was the first desktop I'd owned) were my salvation. Morning Coffee Notes was, along with Daily Source Code I admit, one of the first podcasts I listened to. Why would people listen to someone making a coffee in the morning ? The Scripting.com format I also understood intuitively because my favourite site of yesteryear suck.com, used hyperlinks in the same smart way Dave does : to convey support, balance and a whole range of emotion. The staccato between reading the sentence, deciding to click, and waiting for the page to load to see what the author really meant. Boom. Its not that I agree with him on all his opinions on making money eg commercialism in conferences (not that i would pay $2000 for a conference to hear ads either) Nor do I think his viewpoints on advertising in feeds are as strong as his ability to invent the future. So as I listen to the perfect accompanying podcast for reading Dave's post, The Lost TV behind the Scenes Orchestra Special (which sounds exactly how an orchestra rehearse) I'm metaphorically as my mother would say "Lighting a Candle" for Mr Winer, because he's a wild old cat, but who of us, would invent as many world changing things as he does. I dont even dream that high. I also enjoy the drama he creates or happens to him. It feels real. All or Nothing. Heart on Sleeve. On MySpace, they call it "emo" which is my word of the month. Sitting in Australia along way from Silicon Valley, Dave seems real, not like one of those "used car sales men" as one of the podcasters referred to one of podcasting numbers guys. I like the last words of Dave's heartfelt post because I relate to them : "One thing I'm doing in a deliberate way is passing good energy down the generations, to younger people, whenever I can. You can buy love, it turns out. I do it whenever I can." And Dave, heck our Macs just got 4 times slower / 4 times more expensive than the new ones, but thats alright because the old brain's still ticking over. And the heart seems to be kicking pretty well too. BTW, all that "casting" which Steve Jobs talked about, thats yours. Hey the lawyers may not give you 50% or even 1%, but we all know when they start talking podcasting, photocasting, vidcasting, its yours. Wired into the hardware, and into the datasphere. Which is very cool. Oh but Dave, you need a catchier name than OPML because they've booked a conference in 18 months and they need to introduce some new cheaper/faster/better technology and they need something snappier... any ideas ? ;->