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Duncan Riley posted a link

Photo meme? I'll play

September 18 at 4:22 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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It's like the PSP lick, but more caffeinated. - Josh

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aren't you afraid your tongue would freeze there? - Mark Dykeman

Red Bull p0rn! NSFW!! - Mona N.

I will say the can wasn't as tasty as the contents :-) - Duncan Riley

Comment p0rn ALERT! hahahahhaha!!! - Mona N.

ARRR! - Mo 'Killer Sauce' Kargas

I'd have been on my knees praising the can, but the shot was hard to set up on the webcam :-) - Duncan Riley

ROFL. and you have no beard, need new pirate name - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

lmao. A true worshiper of the caffeine god. - Shawn Farner

Red Bull ahoy, Cap'n! - Chris Baskind

The difference between Dunc and Palin? Lick... - AJ Batac ♘

sugar free red bull ? - johnpiercy

With your tongue stuck on the bull, say "I was born on a pirate ship" - Josh Haley

Duncan, I dare you to do a Seesmic video eating a Banana! LMAO - Igor The Troll

nice one. Have you seen Akiva's? - anna awesomesauce

how do we track these? - Jim Jannotti

Jim, a lot of folks are linking their entries to the "User Photos" room here http://friendfeed.com/rooms/us... or you can search "Tad's meme" for most of them. - JodyUnwired

Duncan, check out my blog, I have many new interesting posts about China http://www.igorthetroll.com/bl... Maybe you ca get some new ideas for inquisitr.com Blogging should be fun, not just about Social Media and who has the bigger Lister! ;-) - Igor The Troll

oh yeah baby... lick it - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

Noah stop being sacred and have fun! Blogging is about self expressionism, so just have fun! There is no right or wrong! - Igor The Troll

Interesting picture, but Red Bull tastes disgusting! - Bryce

Duncan! How about an eggplant instead of that can? LOL! - Randy

How about Akiva's meme photo instead of that can?? - JodyUnwired

I am going to get a Dildo and do a Parody video on Michael Arrington! LMAO - Igor The Troll

haha, hilarious Duncan! - Nicholas Kreidberg

Bryce, red bull is mothers milk, sacrilege suggesting otherwise! :-) - Duncan Riley

Russell Beattie posted an entry on Russell Beattie’s Weblog

His First Circus

September 14 at 1:31 am - Link

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My baby is 6 today

August 13 at 4:26 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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OMG he's so adorable. Is that his school uniform? - Cyndy

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thx. yes, full blazer + tie for winter - Duncan Riley

Congrats, thank god he looks like SWMBO ;-) - loren feldman

Loren, lol :-) Not all that good though, he has his mothers chin - Duncan Riley

I'm telling you... all kids should wear uniforms. I did and hated it but now I know why my mother loved them so much. - Cyndy

Happy birthday, young man. - Frank Roche

not wearing a uniform isn't an option here, even in State schools. - Duncan Riley

+1 for Duncan! Great photo. My son is 2 and getting more handsome every day. Cheers! - Morgan

Congratulations. Isn't that fun! - Franklin Day via fftogo

Duncan, you know he really looks like you...Don't tell him I said that though, poor fella.;) Only messin, happy birthday from me & London town. - Zee from WeDoCreative via fftogo

awesome! 6 is such a beautiful age. My son Will is 6. - Thomas Hawk

My eldest is 6 too, she's starting to get really independent now - Glenn Slaven

My younger son is 6-1:) - Igor Poltavskiy

Nice. My son is going to be 1 soon. I can't believe it, I can see this is going to go very fast. And yes, I think he does look like you Duncan, I can see that. - jjprojects

Fantastic Duncan, congrats! :) - Steve Spalding

Cutie pie :) - Mo J.

Mine turned 7 last month ... They grow too fast! *cry* - tj hanton

what a handsome little guy. my girl turned 5 in april and is already talking about all the 'big girl things' she'll do when she turns 6. - Faboo Mama

It seems a million years ago that mine were young and cute. My "baby" turned 17 last month and I can barley remember that I love her between bouts of wanting to strangle her! - Aura Mae

smart uniform and cute smile :) - nouhad

What a handsome young man! - Skye B.

A heartbreaker! So handsome. (It goes too fast, doesn't it? My baby is 4 and I don't know how that happened.) - Abby Martin

Wow! Good looking kid! He is going to grow up a lady killer! All girls will love him! Looks much older than 6 years old! Is he blogging already? ;-) - Igor The Troll

happy birthday to the pretty little man - marcantonio severgnini

Paul Buchheit favorited a video on YouTube

Richard Feynman explains the feeling of confusion

August 26 at 5:11 am - Link

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I've been thinking a lot lately about confusion and how much information we humans throw away all the time. I think there is also a comforting side of confusion if you don't push too hard on it. - Clare Dibble

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great comment - j1m

this is the same thing artists go through, making a painting is 1000 moments of dissatisfaction or confusion, and one aha at the end. it is a kind of hell if you are thinking about it as you go along. and a kind of heaven if you are simply lost in the absorption, the process, and don't mind what your mind is saying. because the mind only feels good at the end, on the way it is comparing and judging and is really an obstacle to the full creative process. - Gregory Lent

I think many of us avoid confusion the same way we avoid physical and emotional pain. Confusion is intellectual pain. And if you are highly intelligent, confusion can crush your self-concept/ego because it reveals your limitations. But there is no real logical reason to avoid confusion. It is a result of attempting to understand. - Steve Olson

I think confusion in a intellectual flowers into important thoughts and benefits everyone - Aarthy

I agree with Steve. Many people (including yours truly) go as far as trying to avoid confusion altogether by not thinking, because, yes, it's painful and it's crushing to know that you don't know all that much. But it's the realization of your own intellectual limitations that's important in fueling that desire to learn, imho. I find that intelligence is more about knowing you don't really know all that much and being open to learning. - April Buchheit

@Aarthy: I'm confused _all_ the time. I don't see how my particular brand of confusion is beneficial to anyone. I'm confused by my own confusion. - April Buchheit

April, When I was a student I was afraid of being wrong so I avoided confusion. It seems as though I was taught that not knowing was a bad thing, so I stuck with safety, what was known. Now I love confusion, because I realized later in life that feelings like confusion and anxiety mean I am approaching something worth doing or knowing. - Steve Olson

I feel that it is important to feel and not to think to much about something because that can lead to rationing your thoughts onto something and finding it hard to let go, I think that if I feel that I'm thinking then it takes you down roads which become harder because you are no longer feeling the thing you are thinking and so make decisions which mean that you plan and thus time of doing becomes a time about thinking of doing and not much gets done. Anyway I feel that I'm hungry and foodstomp time. - Jason Brooks

living in the mystery of not knowing is a great feeling, pure potential .. confusion gets a bad name when it is the opposite of knowing .. but it is a great thing when it is called openness - Gregory Lent

Feynman's writing shows a guy who had thought a lot about confusion and ignorance, and had many strategies for dealing with it. Basically, he had a theory of his own ignorance. Seems like a useful model to emulate. - Michael Nielsen

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Al Pacino's famous speech in Any Given Sunday

July 26 at 2:29 pm - Link

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Righteous! - Christopher Harley

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Al Pacino rocks! - imabonehead

one of my favorite videos of all time. inch by inch. i've played it so many times that i have had to promise not to play it anymore though. ;-) - Jeff Sandquist

My friend and I had this part on replay for over an hour. Awesome speech. - Colby Olson

Dynamite - Francine Hardaway

funny, it doesn't seem real, in the editing, the acting, pacino is good, but the direction, the emotion is stagey, no dirt on the uniforms ... hokey - Gregory Lent

@Gregory I see what you're saying. I'm there for the speech. Pacino buries the past failures and shines the light on the NOW. It can play to any team, regardless of the goal. It's all about the sublimation of the integral self for the progress of the whole. - Christopher Harley

Darnit, here I am at 2:30am in the morning, rewatching this... - Colby Olson

Goosebumps. :D - Colby Olson

did they get the inch? - Jay Martinez

Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com

Techmeme and TechCrunch's Detractors Prove It's Hard to be On Top

July 22 at 3:00 am - Link

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Kiss up ;) - Jason Carreira

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Jason, are you trying to (for once) agree with your wife? Kiss up ;) - Louis Gray

Nope, I didn't get to her comment until after I posted mine... - Jason Carreira

Gabe can take it, can't you Gabe? - Rex Hammock

BAHAHAHAHA! I hadn't even talked to him all day. Hilarious. - Cyndy

Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you

July 22 at 2:38 am - Link

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Long rant, sorry, had to clear the air so I can start blogging again. :-) - Robert Scoble

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Wow...I'm very interested and excited to see/hear/read what is to come from Scobleizer land next. - Justin Korn

I hope I make your list and if not, please let me know why so I can potentially improve. - Allen Stern

Glad to see that you are starting to realize, despite Techmeme that the world doesn't revolve around just the bay area. - Harold Gilchrist via twhirl

Gotta say you're bang on the mark there. Tech blogging should be about the tech, not the biz. - Luke Robinson

Allen: I like your blog. It's just that I love hanging out with all of you and talking geeky stuff a lot more than talking about this deal and that deal and all that. - Robert Scoble

Harold: I've always realized that. I feel I got unfairly tagged with believing the world only was about the Bay Area. I guess I deserved that to some extent, but this area is quite dominant in the world of tech (including the tool you're typing on right now) so some of my boosterism is to be expected. Funny that the top Israeli company has offices here too. - Robert Scoble

Kudos to you Mr. Scoble, what a very bright post you delivered today! Thank you for bringing some fresh perspective, that's always refreshing and welcome. I'm also happy you cite Lifehacker as an example. They focus on the smartest digital experience possible and help us improve ourselves. That's the biggest deal of all. Techbloggers should never forget it. - c0wb0yz

I love the tech first and foremost but the business is important too, especially in respect to the sustainability of said tech. - Jamie

Jamie: I agree. But the business needs to serve the customers and the customers/participants/users or whatever you want to call you and me aren't coming first in this industry anymore and that's worrying. - Robert Scoble

Wow funny enough thats the way i have been feeling for a while now I am looking forward to seeing what is next from the Scobelizer... - John Spencer via twhirl

I agree overall - CN has only a small percentage of biz - most is trends, analysis, and reviews. I had an interesting discussion about this with someone last week - if i had a computer that could handle video, i'd make a quick video to explain - there's an important part you are missing - Allen Stern

Next is to get some sleep. Gotta be up at 7:30 to be at Fortune Conference at 8 a.m. for breakfast. It's an incredible conference, hope to see some of you at the Tweetup at 5:45 p.m. - Robert Scoble

Allen: will be watching in the morning for what I was missing. I'm sure I'm missing a lot. I had to stop ranting at some point, it was getting too long! :-) - Robert Scoble

This is often relevant from major blogs/ celeb bloggers. The smaller and more personal blogs are still focusing just on tech ;) Perhaps you need to update your feeds :-) - Dennis Bjørn Petersen via twhirl

Dennis: I know. It's why I spend a lot more time here lately than on blogging. The smaller stuff shows up here a lot more regularly and I see a lot less "Yahoo business news." - Robert Scoble

Excellent post Robert. It's why I don't read Techmeme as much as I used to. The life and joy in exploring, playing with and dissecting tech, the geeky exuberance in 'new stuff' has been lessened across almost all tech sites in general, leaving a bland veneer that is just business talk. Things a geek like me doesn't care about, as I'm not an investor. - Mo 'Killer Sauce' Kargas

Techmeme has suffered because most of the tech blogs they follow have become nothing more then PR outlets like you said. - Harold Gilchrist via twhirl

As I posted in your comments, that's a really good post. It's great to see the old Scoble back - the one who I started reading back when your "latest thing" was Tablet PC! Welcome back, mate. - Ian Betteridge

Robert, blogging is becoming commercialized, as it becomes popular. I do not see it as a problem. It just might mean that you and a bunch of other likely minded people have to move on to a greener, more fascinating and less populated pastures. Like friendfeed, etc. Luckily, there are lots of them around and tons in the pipeline. Enjoy! - Павел Романовский

I don't know, Robert. On the one hand I agree 100%. And can I say that as editor of WebWorkerDaily I am the one who gets those 15 press releases a day and I *constantly* have the "is this useful?" filter on. I hope that's clear in our postings. Anyway...Your post is kind of like the person who is used to picking their own corn complaining about the supermarket because it's not the same garden. It's not. The grocer has to pay its bills, as does the paid tech blogger. - Judi Sohn

I know I am a newie to all this but I have been reading blogs for a while. I've bee thinking up a response and I'll post later. Long comments on the iPhone make for one queasy bus ride. - Derick Valadao

Finally. Thank you. I follow 357 feeds. Everyday. Granted I have many pop-sites (lifehacker, engadget, etc) on the list. But not one is of these "new breed" of tech bloggers out there. Even though I am in the industry, they do not speak to me. They are just another form of CNN to me. Linking to each other and regurgitating the same gibberish, no matter how relevant or important, it does not speak to me. Anyway, welcome back! This is very refreshing news to me. I will be following it with much interest. TY! - Carlos Ayala

We should all just organize a "Tech Blog Strike", unsubscribing to those blogs that only push press releases. Let's see how they sweat when they see their subscriber count falling... - JungleG

Obviously my previous comment was "tldr". I just wanted to say how great it is that a person in your position is able to repurpose his content to better fit the goal you are trying to reach with your content. It's a great direction to take in a time where most blogs are just trying to echo up to the top. - Derick Valadao

Excellent post on the state of the blogging nation. - Sheila Thomson

My only real problem with tech bloggins is how easily ideas take hold and spread to get page hits. This is very easily seen in the Vista hatred - there was never any objective reasonf or it... but it was so useful for traffic generation and looking cool that it was rampant. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

It's probably less about the business/tech divide, and more about me-too echo blogging - Dave Pelland

I think so... tech bloggers are jsut as easily victims of peer pressure and memes as anyone. Once an Idea ("love google") defines someone as "getting it" then few will look at it objectively. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

This is a welcome breath of fresh air. Fantastic. - Pete Gilbert

Scoble. Great post. Agree completely. - Tom Quinn

Super excellent post and, ironically, exactly what blogging is all about. One good thing about an economic downturn, it will weed a lot of fluff out of the infosphere -- with less incentive to act as promotional platforms for startups, blogs may get more informative about using established tech. - Sprague D

Great article Robert. It is your authenticity even more than your tech blogging that has made you the great writer that you are. Anyone can report Apple's earnings yesterday. You have always had an honest voice though that makes your writing stand out. - Thomas Hawk

The take away is 'sensational headlines'. Add to the "Rumor:" and we don't need this stuff unless it's coming from a tabloid format site - Charlie Anzman

I don't actually read Techmeme or Techcrunch or other tech blogs that much, as I'm not anything like an insider. I indulge my "social software as spectator sport" obsession by reading Friendfeed, basically. Friendfeed plays the hype filter role that tech blogs are theoretically supposed to play but don't. - K Welch

Blogging is about saying what I want to say, and sharing things that I like with anybody who cares to listen. I'm not interested in driving traffic (thank goodness) or repeating what others have said, but contributing to a discussion. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►

Great post Robert. Very good read and right on the mark. I religiously read feeds in Reader, but only a few that help me. I love Lifehacker. Almost everyday I find something new and useful to my job. - Gary Schmidt

The Techie audience thirsty for knowledge is much smaller then the Get-rich-quick audience, but the largest demographic are the Free-lunch boys. The blogs with the most revenue have tricked their advertisers into believing teenage boys are business decision makers. - paul mooney

I love tech bloggers and the things they write about. The good ones will always come at a common topic from a different angle and I just LOVE that because it makes me think outside the box and start connecting dots all over the place. Robert you are definitely one of those bloggers that I love to read and I don't think any of the ones I read have failed me. - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl

Awesome reading! THX a bunch!! - Ronald

I have to agree about the comments system though. One thing that we started to see a while ago was data portability and being able to communicate accross services. I think Disqus does that quite well and it's a great first step to making sure that the comments system becomes a little more useful on blogs. - Derick Valadao

Well said Robert, left a comment, said my piece, cheers! - Steve Spalding

Wow, an impressive and honest assessment of some major issues in the techblogosphere. - Richard Akerman

Robert - I'm not in the tech industry. But I love what lots of tech stuff has done for learning stuff in my life and for others. And I want to keep on learning. You've certainly helped me here - I wouldn't know a fraction as much about using Friendfeed productively, for example. Glad we're going to see more of this kind of stuff. Welcome back. - Tom Landini

Knocked it out of the park. If we can just get back to being geeks again, a lot of this drama will calm itself... - Jared Smith

this, along with Luis Grey's article today about Techcrunch and Techmeme, are both really interesting features on why blogging, and more specifically high-profile bloggers that were once more passionate, more personal, more engaged, more interesting, are falling to the wayside - Kevin via twhirl

Great read, but kind of depressing the way things have gone. I just like being a bit geeky and all things will work out in the end. - Alan Ashley via twhirl

The key issue for me is that there isn't enough analysis. Just reporting what an app does is useful, but very baseline useful. What are the implications? That's where tech bloggins has really failed. - Shripriya via twhirl

Shripriay, you hit it on the head. It is a shame that all the tech bloggers just wants to be Engadet or Gizmodo these days. - Harold Gilchrist via twhirl

Nice writeup Robert. I enjoyed your detailed analysis & history of the situation. Perhaps you can lead us in a new direction? - Mitchell Tsai

i read the tech bloggers then try to actually use the gadget. would like to hear more results from the usage angle. - Lee Kent

Shripriya, I agree with you wholeheartedly. My original comment was much longer but got cut due to length. I wish more blogs were like Louis Gray and Lifehacker which take a step back and then hit us with posts that are useful/interesting almost 100% of the time. Zero Punctuation is a great example for the gaming crowd--one post a week, internet fame. - Derick Valadao

Hmm... A Scoble article I like.... Is this the Seventh Seal? Seriously, you're right on in that the echo chamber of groupthink has made tech blogging boring and predictable. I think there's a few people out there fighting it, and FF makes it easier to find them. I think you're off on the business side, though... I think it SHOULD be about the technology, but the entrepreneurs coming out of the Valley have made it necessary for us to discuss the business side by not having solid business plans. - Jason Carreira

Anyway, hope this is a sign of things to come from you. - Jason Carreira

Thanks Robert. Great read, and perspectives. Love to see more on productivity, like Lifehacker. Just became a GTD convert BTW and loved the David Allen piece. - Jericho

Thanks for that Robert -- perspective is key. - Shey

I'm sorry but those that don't scale are toast, from a commericial and traffic standpoint. I know that is part of the point (varying aims and objectives of blogging etc.) - Alex Hammer

Slap your self and get back on that horse Robert. You have NOT failed us. Human nature makes us want what we do not have. For some it's page views/revenue, for trolls it's attention, and others it's n-list status. The rest of us are looking to quench our thirst for knowledge. And please give our group a little credit. We have become ever-so-skillful at weeding out those sources that do not provide this knowledge. I repeat...You have NOT failed us. - Andrew Smith

I appreciate what you are saying, and am glad that others share the same opinion as myself. What happened to being the guys who always had some tech trick that seemed like magic to the uninitiated? The joy of tech for me is showing that magic to others and getting them interested in what's out there too, and lately we have all become business whores a little bit. I look forward to the future content coming from you, and getting back to what made tech cool in the first place, the tech itself. - Aaron Krug

One of the things I value most about Robert is his inner homing mechanism. He's very prone to get lost, but something always shakes him loose and he re-calibrates. Or is that re-boots? (Kind of like iPhone 2.0 now that I think about it.) - Michael Hussein Markman

Robert, I loved reading that entry. It felt so personal and it read like it came from a passion rather than a business. This is what lacks in the the tech blogging industry, passion. I think I'm going to add you to my RSS reader. If this friendfeed conversation isn't proof that tech blogging is failing then I don't know what is. Keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing this change implemented. - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver

I agree w/ your article, Robert. The wonder that makes so many of us interested in tech does get lost at times- I never saw tech blogs as the place for that stuff, but appreciated it when I found it there. - anna awesomesauce

Alex: While scaling is necessary if you want more people to view your content, why should that come at the cost of the content itself? Too many startups are trying to replace a solid marketing plan with social media and end up trying to use big blogs as a means to advertise their product and ride the traffic tail to customers. From what I gather, this tends to make jaded bloggers who are not trying to balance the original goal of their contributions with the benefits of increased consumption. Scoble was right to point to lifehacker as a great blog which scaled and still stayed relevant to their readers. - Derick Valadao

I kinda find this funny.. the comments are so distributed between FF channel and Scobles blog channel ? which one am I too follow ? I mean yesterday we had this big huge augments about cluster and fragmentation of conversations. So Robert, here's a suggestion. Turn off comments on your blog and let your readers comment on FF only. Else dont post your blog entry to FF and break your own paradigm of saying you want to be a connector, yet will to let comments slip and glide across all properties that you own. For the record there are 46 comments there and 57+1 comments here. Anyhoot, nice read. - Peter Dawson

I just approved a bunch of comments that were held in moderation. Now there's 88 comments over there. Whew. - Robert Scoble

I'm deeply suspicious of this recent anti-blogging meme (thanks to Calacanis!) Blogs are simply shifting into another priority (within the enlarged mediasphere). As much as I enjoy the "micro" trend, it's also highly reductionist with an absence of elaboration and important context. Blogs provide a space for a different kind of information processing and engagement. If anything, blog hasn't failed me, I have failed my blog (i.e., to choose something EASY (like this) over the *work* of creating a full post. - Mel "de Silentio" McB

melmcbride: good point. It's easy to just stay on FriendFeed all day. It's hard to come up with something new to say that takes more than a short paragraph. Damn, I'm sounding so old school. The neat thing is when I do a longer blog is comes in here and improves everything. - Robert Scoble

Robert: The way you're using your blog WITH FriendFeed is ideal. Same for Twitter, etc. I think we ought to focus on the meaningful integration of these tools for media production and conversation as opposed to versus or hierarchies. I suspect we are on the same RSS here :) - Mel "de Silentio" McB

i think this is part of the echo chamber that is the silicon valley. people who live there use the "new" thing for so long they soon get sick of doing it. they are same people who think everyone elses use technology the same way they do and feels the same way they do. - Jonathan Jesse

Scoble steps out of the bubble and takes a breath of fresh air... hopefully more follow or we're going nowhere fast. - Harish V

I thought this was great! Robert, I think what I hear is your desire to just do whatever the hell you want to without regard to "The Man". Go for it. You of all people can do that! - Elliott Ng

Robert the real issues is that everything really only needs to exist once. Conversations don't neeed to exist in many different places. Your blog comments and the conversation here are all the same conversation. I'd love to explain the solution as i see it but it'd take too long. - Anton Mannering

Robert I am still lost- How can you profess to be be a convo aggregator , yet approve 88 comments on your blog ? @Anton, no Blog comments and these comments on FF, are two different sets of conversation happening on the same topic. Lets not confuse this fact !! There is a fork in the convosphere. - Peter Dawson

@ Anton: I sort of agree with you, but i don't think comment fragmentation is all bad. Sometimes well-written comments appearing somewhere else can draw attention to good ideas. If I don't subscribe to a particular blog but see the feed posted here on FF, I'll pick it up and then maybe I'll go straight to the blog. There's value in fragmentation along with the frustration. - phil baumann

I think a service like disqus should be used so that friendfeed comments on links to blog posts (with comments therein) will all show up no matter which medium you use to discuss them. Does this exist yet? I thought disqus would have this covered by now. - Derick Valadao

Great points as always Robert. We're with you on this. - Missionary Broadcasting

Peter: I approved about 40 that were being held in a moderation queue. I don't let newbies post a comment on my blog because then it'd be overrun with spam. FriendFeed has a much better system to protect against spam than my blog's comments. I think that it'd very cool if I could replace my blog's comments with FriendFeed, but that'd require an API that would make a URL, return it to my blog, and get it linked in, all really quickly. - Robert Scoble

I haven't read the comments here, but feel I can comment. Robert, as someone who as known you for five years now - just before the mania began - I am pleased to hear this. What got me into your blog in the first place was your ENTHUSIASM for technology, particularly GTD. Never let that go. You be you. I will be me. And everyone else will be everyone else. In the end, you gotta follow what you love. It works for everyone from Steve Jobs to the Pope. Your friend online and off - SR - Steve Rubel

@ phil bauman Ok 2 things. First of all I didn't say it shouldn't appear in many places. I'm saying that if you're in Roberts comments and I'm on Friendfeed then we should be able to see ALL the conversation from both. But it need not exist in a whole bunch of places only be visible from there. Second I think the argument that there is value in fragmentation is similar to saying there is value in using a ploughshare pulled by an ox. Ther is but not to most people. - Anton Mannering

@ Robert Scoble: Interesting you should mention your blog comments being friendfeed. I know a startup or two working on those problems. In reality though the issues become way bigger when such a service is subject to really large numbers (non-tech crowd). Solving those problems is where the fun and games are and I only know one startup with a real solution for that. - Anton Mannering

Ironic, isn't it--the influences (PR, marketing, big media) the original bloggers were trying to break away from are--surprise-- still here and the game hasn't changed as much as we thought. PR people still push their stories, tech and news blogs focus on a few big name co's and start looking like traditional media, etc. What's needed is more of the energy, enthusiasm and original thought that Scoble and others brought to the game earlier on--otherwise, we've only duplicated the old media on a new platform. - mark ivey

I send you a tweet also but I believe that I must also write here how spot-on was your post... I can't wait to see more real Tech news coming from you and I hope that this will force other bloggers to remember how they started back then... - Manos Matsakis

This is clearly your best post ever. Thank you for all of your hard work. I read your blog because it entertains me. I would love more posts "sharing geeky things." On the other hand, if you blog about news, technology, and a few pro-company biases, that's nothing to be ashamed of. Just because you (or any other blogger) do not provide a perfect balanced news experience does not mean that you have failed. People are responsible for finding their own news this day in age. - Brian Wilson

Great post and I totally agree. "What's needed is more of the energy, enthusiasm..." - Eric_T

Great stuff Robert. As blogging and social media continues to spread outside of tech and into other niche industries and verticals, those of us facilitating and evangelizing that spread should continue to look back at this post so history isn't repeated. See you at the Ritz tonight. - J.J. Toothman

"I think that it'd very cool if I could replace my blog's comments with FriendFeed, but that'd require an API that would make a URL" - yeah I second that motion. If I had a widget that could do that but with bi- directional flow , that would really be a convo aggregator. This will certainly be an interesting challenge to some of the geeks out here ! - Peter Dawson

You can, if you're willing to give up the content. Glenn developed a great plugin that allows for bi-directional flow. It works for Wordpress and (I think) Blogger http://blog.slaven.net.au/word... - Steve Spalding

Great timing :) I got strange looks this weekend when I said that I don't review anything that has been 'pitched' to me - but rather things I discover that I think are cool. I discovered something this weekend at BlogHer that I will review. But no one sent me a press release. :) It's just a really neat gadget! - Lucretia Pruitt

I think you should watch the movie 'Resurrecting the Champ' - its about a Writer. Drew the analogy to your post and the movie (that I just happened to see yesterday) http://mrinal.vox.com/library/... - Mrinal Desai

Enjoyed that rant, Robert. I'm not a tech geek, I don't read techmeme or techcrunch as the gist and trends can be followed here on FF, but I do read blogs like yours, Louis, Jeremiah and Hutch's, mainly to learn new things. Before FF I had never heard of Rescue Time, Jott, Evernote or TSheets for example, but hearing about new ideas and then experimenting with them myself, well that gets me interested and excited. The corporate enterprise stuff leaves me cold, it isn't nifty or flexible enough for users. - Sally Church

Nice post. The PR influence bit reminded me of this article by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/subm.... Agree to the fact that Tech blogging has been less 'tech' than it was a couple of years ago. - Nikhil Dandekar

I loved the rant earlier yesterday, and even more impressed by the ff reaction. My take on your blogging, having followed you since MS days. Stay on what you think, not what others think. Avoid the whole Gillmor Gang bs, and associated groupthink. - bankwatch

I think that every new medium matures as it becomes possible to make real money at it - this is inevitable. I don;t think it will be the death of blogging certainly but we are in a new phase. Older blogs will mature and still keep that flavor or they will stagnate and die. The personalities will decide that. One of the things I like about your work Robert is the enthusiasm. Sometimes it makes you a bit naive, others it makes you a little to fast to declare something game changing but it is always good input - Soulhuntre

Robert, just read your wonderful post now, and I'm still fascinated by it. I'm commenting here because I know you'll read here first. You know, this competition that you were taking about, almost cause me to stop blogging, but then I realized that I'm writing because I like it, so as far as I'm concern, I'm not trying to compete anyone, this is why I'm taking things easy and on my own pace. I have to also agree about the TOO MUCH content every day. It is just too much to handle, and most of the time you read about the same things from several blogs, then you bump into the same content in services like Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook... I've recently noticed that my subscribers counter is not going anywhere than little up and down. I think it as a lot to do with the fact that people don't need to use the RSS reader as much as before because the content is coming to them anyway, again: Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, etc (assuming that the people who read technology blogs using these services). - Orli Yakuel

Orli: you know me too well! :-) Yup, agreed. Just do it because it's fun. The problem is that posts that make us all smarter don't stick around very long because of the flow. - Robert Scoble

Robert, maybe it's because 'blogs' are not so unique anymore. Lets take Friednfeed for example: everyone can get noticed here just because they favorite picture on Flickr or dugg story on digg (regardless if they writing a blog, or giving any other opinion in the subject) this and other massive content mixed up together on a daily basis is flowing so fast, it almost seem that if you'll stop and give one story too much attention, you'll miss the next one. Oh, and back to the first line here, Micro-blogging definitely killed some of that. - Orli Yakuel

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The Economist's chronicle of economic growth in the last two hundred years. - Kiran Jonnalagadda

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Duncan, change your domain name and you will see how Technorati is not capable of understanding that. I lost all my ranking when I changed the url... no way to tell this to Technorati :-( - luca Filigheddu

Late night w00ts all around! - l0ckergn0me

Nice job! Now we all need Inquisi-tees! - Louis Gray

Like ... wow? - Charlie Anzman

Nice job Duncan! - Shey

Congrats Duncan - no surprise. - Hutch Carpenter

Good stuff Duncan! Moving fast - Paull Young

Great stuff. congrats. - Harrison Wise

Congrats, Duncan. Inquisitr is a rocket sled. Sign me up for an Inquisi-tee too :) - Christian Anderson

Inquisitr is great, congrats. - Kerem Ozkan

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Nice one. I'm not so sure on my leaning towards the white one now :) - Patrick Jordan

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So I don't get it...when I get my 3G tomorrow at an Apple Store are they going to rip off the plastic and install the sim card, etc.? Or do I take it home and install it? I understand you bought from reseller, just wondering if anyone knows what the US Apple Store experience will be like tomorrow. - James Hull

Duncan, whats your verdict on the white vs black? Fingerprints really noticeable? - Zee from WeDoCreative

James - pretty sure both Apple and AT&T will be doing all the activation in store for you. - Patrick Jordan

Zee, the white shows up dirty/ dusty immediately, but fingerprints aren't too bad - Duncan Riley

James, per Patrick's comment. In my case I had an existing sim, so they just handed it over - Duncan Riley

Duncan - what do you think of the slightly rounded back? Does it wobble when set on a desk / table etc? - Patrick Jordan

Patrick, not at all, but it is easier to slide across a table :-) - Duncan Riley

Duncan - thanks - and cool (on the first part) :) - Patrick Jordan

Leo Laporte is asking for people to call him from their 3G iPhones. - Robert Scoble

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wow! i din knew that airtel has 1MBPS unlimited also.... I currently use airtel 256 unlimited! - Ankit Duseja

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Hey, this offers me an opportunity to ask a question. What's the deal with dudes spitting in the urinal before starting? I never understood this. - Mark Krynsky

Mark: Marking their territory..? Like an Alpha Male caveman thing - Mona N.

This is freakin hilarious! - Michael Narciso

Also I can share my favorite euphemism. "Taking the Browns to the Superbowl". - Mark Krynsky

5:15 - 6:00 LOL - Hao Chen

@Mark K: Setting up some target practice? - sergiooo

This should be required viewing for all those who use or may use a men's room. - Alan

I tried showing my friend (girl) this movie and she didn't think it was funny at all. I thought women would also find this funny... well??? do you? - Michael Narciso

Hysterical! - Jake Luer

A M A Z I N G. That is all. :-P - Matt Horton

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