Even though I knew about you I had never read your blog until I started using FF a short while ago. Because here I got lots of other people´s recommendations to do so, and also saw your views and comments on other stuff I care about that you wouldn´t necessarily blog about (neither now or earlier).. - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

not sure. but the conversation on FF is much better! - Jeff (Team マクダジ )

Right... distribution of content and engaging a whole other audience is really smart. Mike still doesn't "get" Friendfeed. Notice he doesn't even contribute to FriendFeed yet. Hey's probably realizing that Scoble is way ahead of him on this emerging platform. Yes, Scoble has posted less blogs, but look at all the BUZZ around his work on FF. Plus we're still seing lots of great stuff and we now get to converse with amazing folks in FF :) - Susan Beebe

Hrm.. interesting thought. As someone who just took a FF vacation, I have some thoughts on this that, ironically, i think I'm going to blog rather than paste right here. Shortcut answer? Yes and no. :) - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I think @michael is just little envy ;) - A. T.

I think you advanced it, your Scoble empire, increased your profile for sure, time to reign it in though maybe, and consolidate it? - sofarsoShawn ~presque...

Robert - I read both posts (well I only read the TC post beucase you linked it) Both sides are well warranted and very well presented. IMHO, V-logging is the next wave and you are already ahead of the crowd! Remember what Tim O'Reilly said about you? Whatever you decide, I wish the best for you. And congratulations on your eighth year mark! :) - Mona Nomura

No, you just made me aware of your current work, which so easily can get lost amongst a sea of blogs! Thanks - Michael Fidler

The crappy useless answer, yet true answer is it requires balance. Twitting and feeding are seductive because they are easy. They are reactive. They are in-flow. Blogs are harder because they take more substance. More introspection. More time to write. And we all know by now saying wise insightful things on a regular basis is just damn hard. So it's a balance. Tweet and feed to converse. Blog to pontificate. And since balance is so easy to achieve I expect you'll be just as successful as everyone else :-) - Todd Hoff

I assume Robert's blog isn't his primary means of making money so why should he care. The blog is just one feed of many sources. Selling the Robert Scoble brand rather than just scobelizer doesn't sound all that shabby. - Rodfather

In my opinion, you harmed your blog when you started twittering :). Your blog has effectively become a medium for really long posts, so unless you're stirring up controversy, a lot of the interesting conversation just doesn't happen there anymore. - trextor

Did I harm my writing letters home to Mom via postal mail when I started using e-mail? Why is an evolution seen as a step backwards? There's no downside to diversifying your audience and your activity. - Louis Gray

In politics it's called floating a trial balloon. I get the sense that you try things out here on FF and on Twitter, gage the pulse of the conversation. Your blog is the more permanent form of expression and ideas. Each has its own merit. Love the conversation here though, keep it up. - michael sean wright

I liked your initiative with getting Seagate on FF but they didn't really do much after releasing a boring press realize and a few hard drive photos. If I recall, there wasn't even a website where I could look for more information about the products. - trextor

Why does Arrington care if Robert hurt his blog this past year anyway? - Jeff P. Henderson

Jeff: I think he cares because he doesn't have enough Twitter followers. :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert, the problem with microblogging is good posts can be easily missed. Plus, archiving is nothing like one's personal blog's. When friendfeed and twitter give us a good export mechanism, this will get much better. I wonder, is the RSS stream they provide good enough? - Alexandros Georgiadis

Your activity here has helped promote your blog to me again. I stopped reading it along with many others because it was just too much information. However, now when you do post something on your blog or in a video, I find it's usually of a better quality and worthwhile reading or watching. Also, some of the themes for your posts and videos are started here, so I'm more interested to see how you frame them in a longer format. - Dominic Jones

I defended Robert and FF here http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - Susan Beebe

"I now have a new news source that other bloggers won’t have: a crowd of 5,400 people who are bringing me the best news from around the web in real time. Already I’m seeing stuff there that will turn into blog posts and insights that other people aren’t seeing." That speaks to me. FF is knowledge sharing. - Dominic Jones

Nicely done, Susan! :) - Richard Walker

lots of thoughts here - http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

People have more access to you on FriendFeed. You respond fast. People like that immediacy. I’d say that helps you far more than it does harm. - Alex Williams

So many people speak for Robert here, I think that's the gain of spending time in FF/Twitter :) - K.D.

UGC & Conversation are far from wasting time, a Blog or Online You is simply more now. Posts tweets comments video pic's feeds etc, all are 1, aggregated or not. Pros beat the cons when it comes to Twitter and FriendFeed. Honestly, i probably won't revisit your blog if you don't show up, at least on FriendFeed. Robert: FriendFeed is a brilliant modern combination of Forums and Aggregation. No you can't personally monetize it, FF doesn't monetize it, not yet, just like most startups. What you're doing on here is significant, FF should reward you with stock options, so you can afford lots of 2 hour dinners. TC has over 1.5 mil subscribers, and i read a lot of TC too, but, i always get there from FF or Twitter. Correct me if i'm wrong, TC posts are getting shorter... adjusting, Arrington has very little FF activity, i wish there was more. I agree with Louis Gray: "It’s about balance..." - Majento

FF/twitter most like a TV-SET.Scoble & techcrunch's Blog most like a tv-station.so FF/twitter is the platform intergrate all you idea~~i think FF/TWITTER makes Scoble lively to me!not like a media "monster".Scoble's FF and tweets encourage me ahead in the badtimes.hold on,man~wherever you go,we will follow you!But Scoble's blog can't open in china!Who can help me if he start blogging more?BTW,Scoble,merry christmas! - jedorstar

I miss the blog, but you have done some nice video work - paul mooney

I'd never heard of you until I saw you on EVERY person's follow and subscription lists, so I don't think it's been a waste, as you have a new reader/follower/subscriber, FWIW. - James Schipper

Your blog may have suffered a dip in visitors. But your message has found its way to more minds. I found you through twitter initially - KyNam Doan

Yes, and you should apologize immediately, lest it goes off on one of those pouting fits. - david beckwith

I think the groundwork you helped to lay here, in helping these two services, helping the web get SUP running (by increasing demand for it), and giving the real-time web a great start, is more important than your blog. I think that will also be the view years from now. - Christopher Galtenberg

I don´t know, did you? how are your traffic stats? # of comments? incomming links? - jonathan from twhirl

It's evolution. My prediction for 2009 is that all blogs will move to FF -provided it allows longer posts. (but then, who the hell am I to predict anything?) - Jordi Soler

If you had not been a blogger prior to jumping on the FF band wagon do you think the response/conversation would have been the same? My guess is your A-List status as a blogger helped your FF numbers. - Sachin Balagopalan

I suppose my hope/prediction for 2009 is some of the distinctions between "blogging" and other forms of publishing go away. You're generating content, it flows downstream, and your audience just chooses where they're going to consume it. I will pretty much never visit your blog, Robert. Your blog posts are just longer chunks of text that show up in Google Reader for me. - Ken Sheppardson