Add another name to "People Dave Winer has alienated." Developer Steve Kirks is sick of the UserLand owner and he's never dealing with UserLand again. Kirks says he had "a destructive one-sided relationship" with Winer. And, well, he makes a pretty good case for it.

The Wall Street Journal tries to build a scandal from a few blog posts. Some Fon advisors wrote good things about the company, all of them mentioning their advisory roles. Where the hell is the scandal?

Geeks don't listen to the radio. They pop podcasts onto their ipods for the morning commute. So the best Silicon Valley news naturally comes on mp3, not FM. Here's a rundown of three of this week's tech podcasts, all hosted by alpha-geeks from the Bay Area.

An excellent essay by Dave Winer on West Coast media. "Some people out here on the west coast (not me!)...