JAMESON'S IRISH BAR, BOSTON, MASS. — If you'd gotten over that unclothed photo of Robert Scoble and Naked Conversations coauthor Shel Israel, here's a new one to haunt your memories. Scoble, Fast Company's pet videoblogger and social media guru, was in Boston for the EmTech conference, and he wanted to go to a bar.…
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — As Fake Steve Jobs, Dan Lyons obsessed over Fast Company videoblogger Robert Scoble. Who is he? Where did he come from? Why won't he shut up? Why won't people in Silicon Valley shut up about him? All those questions melted away when Scoble and Lyons pressed the flesh at MIT's EmTech conference.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Fast Company videoblogger Robert Scoble, who has discovered in the Web a popularity which escaped him in high school, has been moderating a panel titled "Web 2.0/Web 3.0 Mashup" at MIT's EmTech conference for the past hour. There are people from Facebook, Six Apart, and Plaxo on stage with him. With…
Looks like Robert Scoble wants his old job as Valleywag's mascot back. Think you can make more fun of the ubiquitous, flaxen-haired vlog flogger? Snark away in the comments, and your contribution could become the new headline. Yesterday emnem walked away with the win for "IE 8: Melts in your PC, not in your glass."…
Just how isolated are tech pundits like Robert Scoble from the real world? In a telling moment at a "VIP" party for TechCrunch50, Michael Arrington's startup conference taking place this week in San Francisco, an attendee tried to explain Scoble's notoriety to fading film star Demi Moore. Moore was on hand to…
Even Scoble couldn't save Seagate. Almost a year after the hard-drive maker renewed a sponsorship deal with the prolific blogger, its stock is down 35 percent. Archrival Western Digital, meanwhile, is up 40 percent. So much for the profession of "influencer marketing," a field which has exploded since the 2000…
It's a given among most blue-state intellectuals that Barack Obama will take office as president in January. That means looking past November's election to next year's Obama-tunities in Washington, D.C. The most obvious slot for aspiring Valley vets would be Obama's promised new position of national chief technology…
According to the latest round of echo-chamber essays, PR people are now irrelevant to the tech industry unless they completely reinvent themselves. But how? Robert Scoble's Illiad-length roundup post links to everyone and rehashes everything, yet arrives at nothing. Scoble and his blog buddies want PR people to…
Rielle Hunter videotapes a John Edwards interview amidst the evil mainstream media on the morning of Edwards's official announcement of his failed bid for the Democratic Party's nomination. Write your own caption for this post and we'll use the best one as its new title. Friday's winner is godospoons for "Honey,…
Robert Scoble did in fact capture some footage of John Edwards's mistress, Rielle Hunter, back in 2006 when flying with the campaign's blogger party plane. The problem: All of the tapes are property of PodTech, the videoblogger's former employer, so all he can release are the still images, like this one of Hunter…
Rielle Hunter, the now-acknowledged mistress of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, was paid $114,000 by his political action committee to film and produce four YouTube videos, making her the most overpaid videoblogger in the business. We called the second most overpaid videoblogger in the…
"I am really trying to get off of the PR bandwagon," declares the formerly PR-friendly Robert Scoble. "We write something is amazing in the morning and then total junk in the afternoon," gripes Web 2.0 event regular Sarah Lacy. You see, neither Scoble nor Lacy got one of the secret advance "pre-briefings" from…
Vancouver-based NowPublic is ostensibly all about citizen journalism. But since Guy Kawasaki sold Truemors to it and signed up as an advisor, it's becoming better known for publishing flattering lists of "influencers," supposedly ranking them according to various social media metrics. The first "Most Public" list…
If there's a lens, egoblogger Robert Scoble's in front of it. But who's behind it? Rocky Barbanica, the cameraman who Scobleizes the Scobleizer. In this photo, he shows off a pint-sized, plastic version of a much younger Scoble. Can you think of a better headline? Leave it in the comments. The best one will become…
We rarely miss a chance to pick on relentless egoblogger Robert Scoble. But today, RoboScoble is hurting, and his hurt hurts like our hurt. Only his hurt runs about 2,000 words longer. How has tech blogging failed Robert since the halcyon days of 2003? Here's the executive briefing:
Snarfd's Chris Baskind submits to us this image: the miraculous appearance of egoblogger Robert Scoble's face, charred into the side of a grilled-cheese sandwich. A miracle of the Church of Scoble, or just a Photoshop worth bowing too? Whatever you believe, give us your best caption. The winner will become the…
PodTech, the online video startup left to reliving better days when charming shill Robert Scoble was a frontman for the company, has found a buyer, ViewPartner, and for the paltry sum of $500,000. Hopefully the company's creditors will be getting more than a few pennies back on their dollars — the company has been…
PodTech, once described by Valleywag emeritus Nick Douglas as "the video podcast network apparently dedicated to screwing over as many people as possible without actually profiting from it," will be sending out a cheery press release touting its acquisition as soon as today, I've been told. The company has also been…
No, we did not head down to sleepy Palo Alto for the Search SIG meeting featuring small-time players like Mahalo, Wikia and Microsoft, but Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis seems to wish we did. But why bother going when we can get juicy quotes about Jimmy Wales, who founded for-profit Wikia after failing to figure out…
Valleywag's very special correspondent Paul Boutin is back, but could a meeting with Robert Scoble at Supernova presage Scoble's return as our mascot as well? Nah. Can you suggest a better headline? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner: "You're gonna need a warrant for…
