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03/07/09
What?
I fail to see the substance. It's not like he's an investor recommending successful business models, he's some hack. As I said above, web 2.0 is the gold rush, he's trying sell gold picks (Smart!). EXCEPT not physical goods, he wants ego boosts and feelings of self-worth.
Fact: This guy will fade into obscurity. He's another dumb blogger. Everything he says is philosophically wrong because web 2.0 is a collective financial failure. I could write more on why he's a loser unworthy of unrecognition than his honest contributions.
03/06/09
1.) He's a talentless no nothing
2.) People somehow look to him for approval
3.) Yet, he looks to them for approval
It's amazing, because you see this idiot has a delusion that he's an authority on something... And people actually fuel it!
I sort of see web 2.0 as a gold rush, and scoble is sort of the tour guide through dilapidated attempts to strike rich. He keeps the story in queue, hopes up, has little background, but keeps people in because he keeps the myth and people's fantasies alive. Kind of like a con, except instead of money, it's your time, hope and dreams.
He has fanboys. His Wikipedia article has had deletion attempts. His wikipedia article mentions a measurement of a "scoble", something having to do with twitter bullshit. His book, non notable, airport prolefeed. His co-writer virtually unknown, edits his own Wikipedia article. Get the scoop at Scoblecruft on his talk page.
Edit: Apparently his mom edits his article too. Meritously.
03/06/09
Speeding along? Or slowing down?
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03/06/09
But good guys can make mistakes, give bad advice, waste people's time and money on dead end ideas.
I think he did a good job of putting a human face on Microsoft. Whoever actually ended that relationship made a big mistake. Microsoft replaced him with a Borg-like robot, who was soon forgotten.
The association with Microsoft gave Scoble a false aura of technical savvy (of course Microsoft does a pretty lousy job of picking winning technologies too).
The problems Scoble is having are just the tip of the iceberg for the many technology co-conspirators surrounding him. What value are the many blogs pumping up the next potential recipient of venture capital now that VC spending is drying up? Innovation for innovations sake is over for now (and maybe for a long time). People want to hear success stories about tools that work, right now, not some brand new untried thing that only Scoble (or those like him) are privileged to know about.
I suspect a great number of bloggers who are doing this for money, speaking fees, product placement opportunities, stealth marketing and in many cases, unearned credit for various technical achievements are going to be looking around for other work as well and quite a few of them are going to have to reintroduce themselves to the drudgery of a real job.
Just because you work hard at something (and I don't think anyone would deny that Scoble works hard at what he does) doesn't mean you are producing anything of real value. I think that is something a lot of folks are going to have to struggle with in this new "share the wealth" economic system we are entering into.
Be careful what you wish for.
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03/06/09
With french crullers, natch.
/like i should talk
01/26/09
You met this girl through a friend a couple of days ago, and from that, you give her a ticket to the inauguration? Wow, talk about ass kissing that's about the epitome of it all.
Mary and Meghan suck on your site. They *really really* suck. Meghan doesn't know anything about technology, and Mary is ugly skinny skank so I wouldn't look to her for fashion advice on how to dress my dog. And neither of them know how to write for an audience.
You have *some* writing props, in that you know what people want. But too bad half the world rolls its eyes when you enter a room, a fourth hides to avoid you, and the other fourth want to sleep with you. Good cleavage work, keep it up.
I hope your site goes away soon. And that the 3 of you do too. If I were Shira, I'd be insulted that you were using her to fame whore.
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(There can never be enough roles for Jenna Fischer. That's where I'm coming from.)
01/26/09
Not that I think she can punch. I think she probably suffers from Google Alert rage, particularly if the hit isn't on Digg.
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01/25/09
Julia Allison
I'm sick of your shit.
I'm sick of it being wrong.
I'm sick of it being snarky.
I'm sick of it being pointless.
And:
imthevalleywag
So, Julia, why are you and Shira new friends?
Julia Allison
She participated in 24 Hours at Sundance with Meghan, they became friendly, and we happened to both be at the Huffington Post ball on the night before the Inauguration. She came up to me and we hit it off instantly. She's bright, energetic and highly personable. We just clicked.
that's how normal people become friends.
I'm a girl's girl, and so is Shira. She's a hard worker, and I like her.
And Aubrey and I are friends as well. But no, she didn't introduce me to Shira.
And that's that.
So. That's that!
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wait... what's that sound? it... it sounds just like... it sounds just like a falling chimney OH MY G
01/26/09
"Julia Allison
I'm sick of your shit.
I'm sick of it being wrong.
I'm sick of it being snarky.
I'm sick of it being pointless."
Two things.
A: Then stop being a too-good-to-be true train wreck with the self-awareness of a watermelon, and realize that your page view popularity, both here and elsewhere, is built on the fact that people love to hate you, and that hatred is, in the long term, an exhausting and implausible foundation for a personal brand, which you clearly have no ability to generate anyway, because you spend all of your time publicly pretending to fly off the handle at attention you both crave, and lack the psychological resources to properly address by responding with a curt "no comment," a method commonly used because it has worked for every other person of public interest ever who aimed to look like someone who exists above the fray, as opposed to a damaged woman-infant, whose reply to any honest critique of her modus operandi is a dismissal of that person as being one who is plagued with "issues," "unintelligence," or "jealously."
B: Right back atcha, muffin.
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