"I honestly don't believe what people hate is me," Winer later . Dave, the bad news is people really do hate you. The good news is hate, like love, is a way of being attached to you. On the Internet, it's the acceptable way. Would Needleman ever post about the Five Most Beloved Tech Pundits? No, because who would click?

Here's why I love the five guys everyone hates.

Dave Winer

Big Mistake: that eggheads at Google and IBM were gratuitously replacing his super-simple RSS publishing format with a too-complex upgrade called Atom.

Why He's Great: It was true.