http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - Robert Scoble

My reply: http://scobleizer.com/2008... - Robert Scoble

Wow....Bottom line; YES that is a TON of time, but you wisely defended it as you're migrating your "content" here on FF, generating more buzz for your blog and engage way more people. I, of course, am biased cuz I need "intervention" too. I was going to launch a "blog" but found that FF became my blog for short term writing / sharing needs. I still plan to launch a blog in 2009, but am planning that out - Susan Beebe

Ask him when he's taking up @guykawasaki on his absence from Twitter for a week bet - Jesse Stay

I think you should do it all. Blog, tweet, and 'feed. What the split should be? I dunno. - Eric Florenzano

your realtime funnel of friends is impressive - Genaro Bardy

you're saying you chave 68000 people you can show potential sponsors. Did you ever ? - Genaro Bardy

Michael, you're funny. Genaro: I haven't been asked by my current sponsors yet, but they can look at all the people I'm interacting with on FriendFeed to get a good sense of who is here and on Twitter you can see all of my followers. Same on Facebook. So, sponsors generally have a pretty good idea of what kind of people I'll reach. - Robert Scoble

Robert you are doing a fantastic job pioneering new apps and showing us all the way, keep going and ignore the criticism. You are practising being a Thought Leader without the need to blog too. - Thomas Power

What you have done is balanced out your activity between Twitter, FriendFeed, Blogging, Videos, etc. Others who would prefer you stay siloed don't like that you've diversified. Why close the door on a significant audience, like one here, to maintain an old one? - Louis Gray

What?!? You blogged your response? You're falling right into his hands. - Christian Anderson

Robert and Michael, call me paranoid but I bet you guys both organized this rant & rave together to raise some valid questions about the changing nature of the social web. I think there's a place for focused writing of blogs but I can't help thinking Robert's experiment of jumping into the fray is both bold and worthwhile. It could easily be said that M's clinging to the old for reasons like thought leadership could possibly put him in a position of being obsolete very quickly. Love both of you! - Lance Shields

I wanted to agree with this post but Ari's comments are making me laugh too much. - james rock

Michael, I think Robert mainly gets input from his readers. That said, advice is also good for grown ups - Alexandros Georgiadis

I like michael´s funny comments here. I never bothered reading anything else but the headlines from TC before but now I may take a closer look (get it, michael..? ;) - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

This reminds me of the ladies who cried fowl when computers came along..."Noooo don't take my Smith-Corona away!" - Susan Beebe

I don't have a Tech Crunch comment account so I am pasting this here. In response to Susan Beebe, Michael Arrington stated: "and the “conversation” is fine. But Robert’s brain is better used actually writing articles that I want to read. Watching people grunt back and forth is entertaining but hardly educational." My response: "Rude." - Mona Nomura

If you were just a regular guy with a regular job OK, it may be a little much. But..you're a leader in this business and trying to keep us informed. Frankly, I'm a big fan, and feel like I would be missing out if you contributed less. - Christopher Harper

Thought Leader = Adopting Today What Others Will Be Doing Tomorrow = Robert Scoble - Joe Lima

Mike makes good points and he does it out of respect for Robert. These are two of the hardest working guys I've come across. Mike sees the value he is building at TechCrunch and sees the value Robert is building for Twitted/FriendFeed. As far as I know, Robert doesn't get anything for that. I don't agree that Robert's time is not well spent, but can definitely see Mike's point. - Christian Anderson

"S**gate" getting a mention here from Robert every time there´s talk of storage is better promotion than plain ads on his blog. They should be happy about that, and I´m sure pay him equally well for that. - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

Yeah, I agree with Christian that M has good points and I think this debate is very good to consider. How do we spend our time? What is truly valuable? Is Robert poorer than he used to be? ;-) - Lance Shields

Your audience is more qualified than any else... That's interesting. No Media can link to facebook / twitter / ff accounts to give insights about its audience ! That's Power my friend - Genaro Bardy

Mona - I posted a response to Michael here http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - Susan Beebe

Hey Robert! I hate to say this but I kinda agree with Michael on this one. I use to read you blog every day. I loved how insightful your post were. I could tell that you put a great deal of thought into your blog, and in turn, your blog provoked me to think. I like following you on friendfeed, but it is just not as thought-provoking. I have also started visiting your blog less because there is just not as much there. - Craig Fogle

I think Robert's brand is portable enough that he can survive outside of his own domain. At the end of the day, it's about engaging people through whatever means possible, whether that's your blog or FriendFeed, Twitter etc. For what it's worth, I had never read Robert's blog before I used FriendFeed. In some respects there's probably an element of Michael using Robert's popularity to drive a bit of traffic his way. Looks like it worked too. - Sam

Mike hasen’t noticed your videos, does that tell us more about Mike or your videos? - paul mooney

How about spending time where it matters to you? Maybe Mike should spend less time worrying where others spend their time. It's your time, spend it where you want. - Brett Nordquist

Honestly, I believe all these services should be merged somehow... Maybe if Friendfeed allowed for longer posts (although then it wouldn't be microblogging, but isn't Twitter for that?) people would start to move here. FF is a very young service yet: let's see how it expands and then we'll be able to choose between FF and traditional blogs. - Jordi Soler

Once nanoblogging and picoblogging catch fire, this microblogging will seem tedious and time-consuming. Last Thursday, at 10 AM, I picoblogged an entire week of bloggage. Took about ten minutes. - david beckwith

Wow David, that's maybe the stupidest thing I've ever heard. - Geoffrey Hamilton from twhirl