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I'll discuss the secret to getting to the top of the AllTop Egos page http://egos.alltop.com/ here:

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First, you've gotta have an ego. I haven't met anyone who doesn't have one, so I think we all qualify. - Robert Scoble

2. At Microsoft when given a camcorder I aimed it at everyone else OTHER than myself. I discovered that if you want to be an egotistical baaahhhhsssttttaaarrrrrdddd you've gotta help other people's egos first. - Robert Scoble

Is it me, or is this egregious follower-baiting :-)? - Jason Wong

3. You've gotta find some way to get all the other egos on this list to talk about you. That ain't easy, but if you want to get onto this list it is a must. Let's discover some ways to do that... - Robert Scoble

4. Tell @techcrunch he's wrong. - Robert Scoble

5. Give @guykawasaki a new marketing trick that he didn't think of. - Robert Scoble

I'm listening. :) - Trace Sharp

6. Show @jasoncalacanis a way to make even more money. - Robert Scoble

Curious what the diff in traffic is from being at the bottom or top of an alltop category. I'm on alltop in a specific directory, but I barely get any traffic from them. - Douglas Karr

7. Bring a bottle of wine to @loic that he's never had before that he likes. (I did that with a wine from Sonoma and he said it was the first California wine he could get interested in). - Robert Scoble

8. Do something interesting with RSS and get @davewiner to like it. - Robert Scoble

This seems like the same list as before. I smell something fishy going on. - MarkCarras

Douglas: if you are really going to be egotistical you can't care about traffic. There's something that matters to egos FAR more than that. What is it? Whether or not you are talking about them. At Microsoft I NEVER looked at my stats. I ALWAYS looked at blog search engines to see what people were saying about me and about others. - Robert Scoble

9. Find out what people want, then do a friendfeed list about it. I noticed that everyone on Twitter seems to be begging for followers. So, I gave in and did a list of how to get more followers. - Robert Scoble

10. Say that the Alltop egos page is bullshit, because it is. Explain why and you probably will get looked at by Guy Kawasaki (he's the guy who decides who goes on this list). - Robert Scoble

Mark: there are some overlaps, yes! Bing. Bing. Bing! - Robert Scoble

the secret of getting on alltop: schmooze GK | the secret of getting on popurls: be high quality - thomas marban

11. Tell Kara Swisher who the next Yahoo CEO is. But you've gotta be right and you can't be Jerry Yang (she already talks with him nearly every day). - Robert Scoble

12. Be someone with a big ego. Bill Clinton, for instance. - Robert Scoble

I just thought I'd help you point out how retarded lists like this are and how much most bloggers just regurgitate the same info over and over again. There is nothing new under the internet sun it seems at times. - MarkCarras

thomas: schmoozing helps, but there are lots of people who schmooze like Buzz Bruggeman who aren't on the Egos page. To get on this page you've gotta have something more. You've gotta make Guy Kawasaki laugh. - Robert Scoble

Mark: NOW you are getting the handle on this ego thing. Keep going... :-) - Robert Scoble

13. Say something that Tim O'Reilly retweets. Repeat 200 times. That should get you onto this page. If you do the hard work and you don't get on, then you'll be credible when you say this list is bullshit. Which, of course, it is. But to get on the list you've gotta have credible proof. And you've gotta be both a big thinker and a big ego. - Robert Scoble

Cliffs Notes Version: #1, #3. Done. :-) - michael silverton

14. Be Mike Arrington. Oh, wait, start a famous blog. Yes, that requires staying up until 2 a.m. and blogging something interesting every day for a few years. Sorry, not too many shortcuts here. - Robert Scoble

I think I've been training for this all my life. - MarkCarras

15. Be Barack Obama's social media queen or king. - Robert Scoble

16. Make outrageous bets with John Dvorak. Win. Back when we bet on Obama vs. McCain Obama still hadn't beat Hillary. That said, John is wrong more lately than he's right. Speaking of which, getting on Cranky Geeks (his show) will help you get onto this page. - Robert Scoble

17. If everyone is talking about how big your ego is over and over you probably deserve to be on this page. I bet Guy is doing Twitter searches on the word "ego" to see if any good egotistical baaahhhsssttttaaarrrdddd's are out there. - Robert Scoble

18. Interview Guy Kawasaki. He's an egotistical baaaahhhhhsssttttaaarrrrdddd and he loves it when you pay attention to him and help him make money. Make sure you ask him about his book and Alltop. - Robert Scoble

19. Tell a billionaire what to do with his/her life. Or, even better, his/her company. - Robert Scoble

20. Make a small list of your favorite friends like Dave Winer did and include lots of people on the Alltop list onto it: http://www.scripting.com/stories... - Robert Scoble

No offense, but if I ever get on that list, I'm retiring from the Internet. - Enrique Gutierrez from twhirl

21. Insert your own megalomaniacal and unjustifiably self-important item into scobleizer's list polemically proclaiming a superior solution. Such as: create your own new Alltop knock-off using the words "meta" or "uber" and give RS userID #1 and exclusive First Post access. - michael silverton

I'll tell you what guarantees you won't be on it: Asking to be placed on it. Guy - Guy Kawasaki

Being close friends with Guy can't hurt. - Daniel Miessler

I really hate Alltop and unfollowed Guy Kawasaki on Twitter for his Alltop Spam. I hate Alltop mostly because of the Feedburner stats they try to aggregate and I hate it even more when Guy Kawasaki tried to get Twitterers to sign up for auto-tweeting Alltop "stories" via TwitterFeed. - Richard Metzler

michael: that is the way!!! :-) - Robert Scoble

Enrique: you have to have an ego to say that you don't want to be on the ego list. :-) - Robert Scoble

Just a small note. It took 26 minutes for Guy Kawasaki to comment on this thread. On a Sunday morning. Do you see how this works? :-) - Robert Scoble

i wanted to get on the ego list, anyone around here knows i should be but guy put on the seo page instead, oh well :) i'll follow some of these steps, maybe i can get dual all top citizenship - sean percival

I have an ego page... my blog... my startup's home page... As far as who else puts me on an ego page... I think I'll just focus on the stuff I can control and leave that up to them. - Brian Roy

@Scobleizer oh, my ego is massive, but if I had a list to go with, I'd quit for fear of combustion. - Enrique Gutierrez from twhirl

@seanpercival you're not on the ego list on alltop? the hell is that all about? the list is rigged, I say!! :P - Enrique Gutierrez from twhirl

i know what else must a man do? i have stickers made with my face and my biz cards are metal! thats it im getting zune guy to tattoo my avatar on his arm. - sean percival

These lists are both interesting and entertaining but the suggestions appear to be targeted at PR professionals or social media consultant wannabes. Most users of social networking tools don't have time to invest in being popular. They just want to find (or be found by) relevant information and participate in interesting conversations. Any advice for us? - scott anderson

Richard Metzler just got bumped to top of Alltop. - michael silverton

The key to having an ego is knowing that you're perfect - John Bellone

The key to having an ego is secretly knowing that everytime you open your mouth, you are right ... - Alemsah Ozturk

No Ego. I am all Id and Superego. - Martha

I will not be on Alltop's Egos page, but that's OK with me. I have named my blog EGO and have been blogging since 2002. EGO stands for I in Latin. I will soon start a new interview series of my podcast show with individuals who have rational egos and want to have a form of mutual exchange as a conversation with me, sharing their knowledge and ideas with my podcast listeners and blog readers. - Martin Lindeskog

It's not the 26 minutes that matter; it's the Attentional Capacity and Cognitive Behavior to notice such things in stride. Welcome to the Attention Economy. However, do not worry if you don't "get it" right away; unlike the brutalizing rush to the bottom of Industrial Capitalism; in the next stage of human expression, the handholding not only continues, it gets continuously and consciously better. Competitive advantage giving way to Uplift and Inclusion: fostering Cooperative, Collaborative Advantage. - michael silverton