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First photos of Ryan Soroush Scoble.
- Robert Scoble
Congrats.
- Spencer
Love!
- Robert Scoble
Thanks, we're having lots of fun except for getting woken up after three hours of sleep. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Beautiful , thank goodness for photography ,, more special moments to come .. congrats robert and family
- johnpiercy
that is one very alert kid Robert. Congrats again.
- Rhys Amos
Just awesome, Robert! Do you have some stats? Weight? Length? Give my best to your wife :)
- Robert Couture
Oh and I don't see an iPhone in those little hands yet :)
- Robert Couture
Robert: 7 lbs 13 oz. Born at 11:32 pm. on Sept 19, 2009. 20.5 inches long.
- Robert Scoble
He's adorable. Also I notice Sequoia Hospital puts their name on the onesie. Thats smart; just a bit of free marketing, in everyone's new baby photos.
- DGentry
Gratz Robert, and welcome to the world Ryan!
- Mark Essel
Welcome to the our small world Ryan "happiness" Scoble!
- N.Onur ATAHAN
Congrats Robert! He looks beautiful.
- Devon Govett
Congratulations!
- Warner Crocker
Congratulations to you and Maryam (and Milan and Patrick as well)
- Brian Sullivan
Congrats - you have time to breed?
- Dave Hendricks
Dave: it's amazing, huh? :-)
- Robert Scoble
He is beautiful Robert!
- earl wallace
from twhirl
Congratulations,
- Michelle
:) ای جان
- Noosha
yay scobles!
- metalerik
from iPhone
welcome to this ..... world! i hope you're luckier than us!!!!!!!!!
- Alaedin Fazel
Congrats Robert and Maryam!
- Bill Heslin
Congratulations Robert and Maryam!!!
- Amit Morson
Curieux cet emmaillotage de bébé... Cela ne se fait plus...
- Polluxe
i LOVE new babies! he's so alert by the time he gets his clothes and blanket. congratulations!
- Trish Haley
Congratulations on a beautiful baby. May your entire family be filled with joy.
- Debby Bruck
Congratulations, and welcome to the little one.
- Sally: baby flier
Congrats! Love the middle name!
- Zachary TG
RSS FTW! Congratulations.
- Tom Horn
Congrats !
- Guy Vander Heyden
CONGRATULATIONS to the Scoble family. The baby's beautiful :)
- Jim Connolly
Congratulations, very happy for you and your family! Best wishes.
- Harold Cabezas
my heartiest congratulations! I'm so happy for all of you!
- Howard Greenstein
Congrats Rob.......He's got your looks too :-)
- Alex Marrow
Why Coke beat Pespi for the last 100+ years - http://www.inquisitr.com/30880...
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Don't forget the slight difference in tastes!
- Raphael, Raphael
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history - http://www.ted.com/talks...
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سلام بر عزیز
- خرچنگ زاده
مهدی یحیی نژاده؟ :))
- میر«آرش» موسوی
First big change: many-many. "The media that is good at creating conversations is no good at creating groups and the media that is good at creating groups is no good at conversations." That was old media. The internet has native support for groups and conversations. Second big change: all other medium is implemented over the internet which means they are close together which means they...
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- Todd Hoff
بابا مهدى 3-4 تا تار مو داره رو سرش
- jandark
we live amazing times: "the largest expressing capabilities in the human history"
- Yann Ropars
Geeks, journalists and new media people will be equally interested in this report on The Guardian's crowdsourcing venture. http://www.niemanlab.org/2009...
Dilip Dand and Miranda Richardson liked this
"100 Free Online Ivy League Courses You Should Take Just for Fun" http://www.advantageedu.com/blog... via @VioletMae Check out MIT's Lego Robotics class!
John Wang, Miranda Richardson, Rob Diana and Rachel Lea Fox liked this
@garyvee you are over the top. On fire. Thunder x 100. I wish I had your talent. Wow. http://tinyurl.com/65hrcx
Laura Norvig, JimmyJet, Daniel Rowley and 16 other people liked this
I'm gonna watch this when I get home from the Land of No Video
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Scary thing is - it's not only people who've worked in old media for a long time that think this way. A group of journalism students told me recently they weren't interested in in the internet, they only wanted to work in television news...And I know a very talented young journalist who has repeatedly told me: "I just want to get on the telly".
- Miranda Richardson
That was intense - Gary! Such energy. Nice Chair.... but seriously - he is 100% bang on with HS being smart and seeing social media as a serious threat to his future. A hostile reaction to the fall of an empire.... Where have we seen that before? ;)
- Simon Plashkes
Given stern's style (inherently hostile) it is not possible. There are rational arguments that SM is a waste of all kinds of human resources -- but stern doesn't even come close, and (as Gary points out in the video...) many of his arguments are directly in conflict with his own practices.
- Simon Plashkes
from IM
@Miranda Ultimately the 'telly' and the net will combine I am sure. In fact, if it wasn't for the reluctance of companies such as Comcast being scared of losing their revenue stream from premium channel subscriptions, I feel there would already be much more integration of the two. Personally, I'd be more than happy to quit cable TV, and pay what I save for a much faster pipe instead and watch anything I want to online, on demand.
- Ian May
@cristoblanco / world: 'there is some value to have some well known, high quality entertainment' - So true. But how do we get there? Do we design systems that limit creation to a few chosen ones (cough: 'old media')? or do we design systems that have filters (sometimes people based) that allow the diamonds to *easily* rise out of the rough?
- Simon Plashkes
from IM
I can't pull an example, but i am SURE someone IS ALREADY the new HS of the internet - links anyone?
- Simon Plashkes
from IM
favorite line is "howard stern sounds like your dad."
- Jaica Kinsman
I couldn't listen through this, Gary is way too hectic. FWIW, I'm a Sirius subscriber and find a lot of value in the medium. I think this is probably a case of the internets taking themselves a little too seriously (again?). The biggest thing traditional media outlets have that the internets are still struggling to find is focus. Granted that means less choice traditionally, but at some point choice becomes distracting and bad.
- matthew john ernisse
the net is my tele.
- Jaica Kinsman
i agree it was hard to listen to, but his points were good.
- Jaica Kinsman
I'm not against old media. I'm just against paying for cable and buying a tv.
- Jaica Kinsman
Just watching the Stern reaction and I agree this guy has bundles of energy and a real attraction to make you want to watch!
- Joe Dawson
sigh
- Patricia
@pceasy I don't think that smart phones are much of a threat to Sirius. The selection of programming online is pretty fractured, and the data service on most providers wouldn't stand out to 17 million people listening to decent quality, and wifi penetration is no where near prolific enough to compete with satellite.
- matthew john ernisse
Sirius is totally screwed. How can they compete when every 8 years they have to spend 20MM putting things in orbit? Clearly the shared infrastructure of the network is a massive competitive advantage, add that to the potential for evolution of hundreds of competitors (as a result of the same network) = doomed. Have you played with the radio iphone apps? They are amazing, and will only get better. Anyone listen to viva-radio.com? I love it. PS: And YES Sirius could survive as an internet radio BRAND
- Simon Plashkes
@chris no doubt that the strength of sirius' model is their content creation and amalgamation, I didn't intend to make any assertion to that. My point was only that cellphone data networks aren't really a viable delivery mechanism at this point, and while yes you can use edge or even evdo / hsdpa networks, I think they'd crumble under the load of that many subscribers, and that the coverage area is not nearly as prolific as their current footprint.
- matthew john ernisse
I thought Gary did a great job on this video as well. :)
- Daynah
Gary crushed it! Howard Stern is Old School. Not too surprising given the length of his career.
- Pete Steege
Can serious journalism save the day? - http://steveouting.com/2008...
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As Rome burns, journalists whine about new media - http://www.inquisitr.com/6615...
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New TechBlog post: The price difference between Macs and PCs widens http://blogs.chron.com/techblo...
Nicholas James, Sudar, Glenn Batuyong and 11 other people liked this
I've said it before, if the macbook sold for 600 as opposed to 900+ -1100 is would put a very serious dent on the pc market. Many firms and especially the k-12 market stay away from macs for one reason and one reason only....price.
- Carlos Ayala
This is why hackintosh's are becoming increasingly popular.
- Tim Hoeck
Just configured my own Inspiron 518 to a spec that matches the lowest end iMac, it came to $1,012 not the $739 mentioned in the article. I couldn't exactly match the iMac because the Dell doesn't offer a webcam, mic, bluetooth or firewire. So you're effectively paying $200 for those missing features and at the same time you get rid of Windows and viruses.
- Paul Grav
@Tim. Define popular. I tried building my own once. It was a pain to get the right hardware, and even when you think you have the right hardware, there'll be a device that doesn't work properly. No wireless, mono sound, buggy network card. Then there's the problem of OS updates. Accidently applying one usually renders your install useless. It might be 'popular' amongst a small bunch of geeks, but that's it.
- Paul Grav
Apple hardware is a unique combination of performance and design. Combine that with the best consumer OS and its easy to see why Apple charges a premium. Same applies in the auto market. A Pontiac GTO is faster than a Porsche 911 but buyers are willing to pay for the Porsche "experience".
- Tom Wentworth
Tom's Hardware completely contradicts the findings quoted on that blog. http://bit.ly/3SGXeJ
- Paul Grav
@Tim "popular" among a small subset of geeks. the masses don't even know what a hackintosh is.
- Dwight Silverman
What I Want PR and Marketing Professionals To Know - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/what-i-...
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I've gotta say. As someone involved in the area - I am proud to (at least feel) one step ahead of the game. There is nothing out there I have ever felt as passionate about, apart from my baby, and I can't see the passion dwindling.
- Zee.
btw, which plugin allows for friendfeed comments directly on the blog? Or is that a Movable Type blog you've got there... Oh, no it's not. Which plugin is that?
- Zee.
Great post, you hit most of my recent peeves.
- Heather Solos
@Zee - WordPress: http://blog.slaven.net.au/wordpre...
- Chris Brogan
strange - sure i have that installed but I'm not getting the ability to add comments directly on the blog which is awesome. Will look into it - cheers.
- Zee.
I'm a long-time PR and Public Affairs guy, but I'm far removed from any metropolitan areas. Very few of my long-time contacts and colleagues are even aware of what Web 2.0 or Social Media are, much less what they mean. They may have a LinkedIn or FaceBook account,but they see such tools as no more than toys. The practical applications of this stuff are beyond them still. I hope to gradually pull some out of their caves and into the light.
- Bob Finch
New blog post: The Social Web Economy: Introduction http://www.socialtimes.com/2008...
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Who Is Your Information Filter? - http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008...
Mindaugas Dagys, Cathy Brooks, Vic Podcaster and 22 other people liked this
I'll admit that I tend to use folks as filters - why I don't use a feed reader, actually. I get better passive advice on what to read thru FF and Twitter. Not everything that any one person writes is going to be spectacular - but when several people whose opinions I respect share something, it tends to be worth reading.
- Lucretia Pruitt
My information filter are my GReader friends primarily and then twitter and friendfeed friends
- Nikos Anagnostou
My brain
- Frédérick 2 Baro
from twhirl
Who replies "me" is a bit arrogant, who says "you Robert" is too much deferent. Filtering is [or should be] a process, not a person. Isn't it?
- Markingegno - Donato
The little voices inside my head ;-)
- Jemm
i would like to know it, because the information that i have are already filtered and i can't avoid. :D
- Felter Roberto
from twhirl
Why is it arrogant to be one's own filter? I read a lot of sites each day (both liberal and conservative, scientific and psychological, artistic and technological), compare points of view, consider my own views, and filter the information I receive accordingly. Should I trust others to do this for me? The real question is whether or not we are "open systems," capable of accepting information that counters our own viewpoints and beliefs.
- William Harryman
Not filters, faucets.
- Amit Morson
I think "filter" is the wrong term and it is leading to some "ick" responses. I'm with Harryman. Also, I see Robert as a connector (since he's analyzed in the piece), not a filter. Also, the degree to which Scoble points to things that I have an interest in changes as our respective interests and attention change over time. I find myself adding other connectors to my sphere of connection, although I still keep an eye on Robert. I think that is a social phenomenon.
- Dennis E. Hamilton
from twhirl
@William - I mean it's impossible for anyone to read anything is written in a day by millions of blogger. You can see only a small part of the tale. You have to adopt some kind of filters, being them human or not. From the other side, you can't rely on them, or on another person, neither he is called Scoble, :) you have to use your brain. My two cents.
- Markingegno - Donato
Experts in their respective fields. No-one can make sense of everything.
- Meryn Stol
You
- Francine Hardaway
FriendFeed subscriptions
- Imran Hussain
from feedalizr
FriendFeed works for me.
- Vic Podcaster
I think it's hard not too hear the loud voices of the A-list bloggers and media-people. At the same time, information is only as valuable as when it can be put to practice. And that is completely up to you!
- Vincent van Wylick
Can't say that I have one. Depends on topic. Frankly with the incredible splintering of the content flood these days I'm learning to trust someone I hadn't listened to in a while ... myself. One's own gut instinct rarely proves wrong ... so if it sounds like bullshit, it probably is.
- Cathy Brooks
from twhirl
@ Markingegno - I get about 1100 feeds through Google Reader, and sure, that is only a fraction of the web, but it's a pretty representative fraction from news sites to blogs. Plus I browse FF a couple of times a day, and this is turning into another good source of information, but even here, I choose "friends" who post interesting content or links. So in the end, I am still my own filter.
- William Harryman
Gary Vaynerchuk Hits 500 in San Francisco - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
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Long rant, sorry, had to clear the air so I can start blogging again. :-)
- Robert Scoble
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
from 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
from 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
from 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 Kargas
Techmeme has suffered because most of the tech blogs they follow have become nothing more then PR outlets like you said.
- Harold Gilchrist
from 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...
- Jorge Escobar
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
from 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
from 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
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
from 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
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
from 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
from 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, Jamaican of FF
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 Markman
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 sauce
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...
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- 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...
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- Peter Dawson
I just approved a bunch of comments that were held in moderation. Now there's 88 comments over there. Whew.
- Robert Scoble
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
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/wordpre...
- 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/submari.... 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...
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- 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...
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- Orli Yakuel
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I really liked this post. It is great to hear about this perspective from someone so deep in the trenches. This insight is very helpful to understanding the current landscape of blogging.
- Mindy Koch
A lot of valid points that I agree with.
- Adrian Nadeau
I loved the post. Friendfeed is adding a lot of exposure to our digital identity. Do you feel there is a need for a new social netiquette? I.e don't post your "I have a new blog post: domain.com/post " on twitter if you already linked friendfeed to your twitter account AND to your blog? I would love to hear your opinions about that
- Marcello Del Bono
Just noticed the same. When I started blogging I always asked myself: Should I post this story on my blog or try to sell it to a magazine or newspaper. Now it's increasingly the question if I should blog it or post it to Twitter or FriendFeed.
- Benedikt Koehler
And what about non native english speakers (like me). I blog, twit and post in friendfeed both on italian and english language. is that annoying for non-italian speakers ? I often post the same news on my italian language blog (in italian) and on my english language blog (in english). they are both linked on friendfeed. Is that correct? Is that annoying? I don't have the answers...
- Marcello Del Bono
Marcello, it is not annoying, it is just shows a need for filtering for languages. People will ignore things that they cannot read, so let them filter it.
- Rob Diana
Rise of rapid yet drastic increment of the socialization on the web might be causing this confusion, I guess. "Time is a cure."
- Kenichi Matsumoto
@Kenichi: Will there be a time when we can socialize on the web without having to take care of different languages? Going beyond Babel in social networking?
- Benedikt Koehler
benedikt, I made a confusion here. sorry! I meant to comment on the original post. btw, I'm having the same problem as Marcello pointed out above. I'm a Japanese.
- Kenichi Matsumoto
Unless your blog is quite unsuccessful, or you've got an enormous social media following, I'm not sure how this works. 20 times the people will read one of my blog posts vice a Tweat or FF blurb. And, of course, I can actually develop a coherent thought (theoretically) in a blog post. And monetize it.
- James Joyner
I think I understand Kenichi. I just wrote a post about the points I see in this thread. http://marcello.delbono.eu/2008... Is it correct to link my blog post on this thread? I wrote it on my blog since I have more space there, and I can also use images and formatting. But is this kind of cross-referencing correct? Is it noising? Is it value adding? ...
- Marcello Del Bono
Excellent post, Louis. Your brain is in no way suffering from sleep deprivation!
- Carla Thompson
@Carla This was a guest post by Jesse Stay
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
less is more w/blogging, engagment is better then content :)-
- Peter Dawson
Oh oops. Apologies Jesse! Apparently *my* brain is suffering.
- Carla Thompson
Jesse did a great job with this post. It's why I invited him.
- Louis Gray
I agree with you. I've noticed bloggers slowing down myself. C' mon people, I need YOUR feed!
- Matt Browne
Bingo! My brain is rewired to think in 140 character bursts. Blogging is beyond me now.
- Michael Markman
Marcello, I commented on your feed. http://ub0.cc/5Y/d
- Kenichi Matsumoto
:)
- Marcello Del Bono
Thoughtful post. I wish I could whip up a post in 30 minutes flat.
- kamla bhatt
Louis - I thought you said, "that's why I invented him" below. lol! ;-) Thanks for your kind words though.
- Jesse Stay
Marcello I don't think there are enough FriendFeed users yet to completely forgo Twitter as an additional platform for sharing content. I still have twice the friends on Twitter as I do FriendFeed.
- Jesse Stay
Marcello I think the only standard is that you be yourself - if you get criticized, certainly be courteous, but don't worry too much about any set "rules". You'll be fine. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Jesse that's true. Twitter is stil much more mainstream, and growing than FF. But the value proposition of the tools is different: FF is the provider of a social me, a creator of digital identity from your digital fragments around the net, enriched with blogging and social functionalities. Twitter is a microblogging app, istead. So they are two different tools, with different purposes
- Marcello Del Bono
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