In his Support Your Neighborhood Developer piece Brian Carnel eloquently expresses what is my POV too. He rounds off with:

"Winer's silence is a bit puzzling from someone who relentlessly champions small developers. Microsoft buys a couple companies with "great developer communities" and that's news, but someone releases an amazing piece of software built on top of Winer's platform and it's a non-event. What's that about."

Maybe there's a hint in this snippet from Scripting News?

"On the other hand, I totally agree that we have no obligation to point at anything."