There's been a lot of commentary around the net about the unfortunate events surrounding Dave Winer's abrupt closure of weblogs.com, but if you haven't yet read about it, best places to start are posts by David Weinberger, and Tom Matrullo.

I was gonna write a post about the nature of responsibility, and how when you offer to help someone you take on a responsibility to not dump them in the shit without warning (whether you like that responsibility or not), but I think there's enough stuff been said already about Weblogs.Gate.

None of it, though, is quite as eloquent as Dan's rather spiffy mashup.

Says it all.