I mean, its one thing to criticize Google for something that may, in fact, been a real case of agism. But 1) we really don't know more than the facts reported in the original NYT article (which, by the way, seem to indicate that if Google did something wrong, they've done enough monetary penance that "all parties" are "satisfi[ed]") and 2) have little evidence other that Dave Winer's brash and unfounded assertions to believe that such attitudes, if they even existed are still around today-- let alone as the dominant culture at Google.
But I guess that doesn't that stop Dave Winer from judging every Google employee he meets based on the actions of a few that occurred nearly a decade ago.
I'm forced to conclude that what Winer really wants is to believe that a culture of agism does exist at Google, and then go find "evidence" to support that desire, whether or not it makes any sense at all.
Were we living in the universe of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, I'd suggest he get out Diax's Rake.
[1]http://scripting.com/stories/2011/11/01/theIdiotsOfHackerNew...