Comments on: Dissecting Scoble’s Recent Outlook On Blogging

By: Jake McKee

Jake McKee — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:33:18 +0000

Problem is, Scoble has become immersed in his own hype. What was once a kind, open, interesting guy has gotten sucked into the world of celebrity and lost his roots. His “us” has become “me”. His “we” has become “I”. From weird pronouncements about his life onstage, to his random, personally-focused-yet-mistakenly-broad blog entries like this one.

He’s a good guy, but he’s living in a bubble (SV) within a bubble (celebrity) within a bubble (his blog).

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:56:34 +0000

And by the way, if you are trying to keep track of 900 feeds a day, you are not going to be able to think about anything, including or perhaps especially the things you are supposed to be thinking about.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:54:09 +0000

“TV and movies and radio and magazines and books and flyers handed out on your corner have lost their humanity. Their weirdness.”

This is the same sort of statement he made and probably more true. I think Scoble, though smart, may be too caught up in the technology and sort of ignoring the content.

*Of course* as a technology matures it will be more widely adopted for commercial uses. This just might have to do with it being used by a wider audience (just guessing here). Blogs and Web technologies in general were always destined to be used in this way; Scoble might do well to consider that the lower barriers to entry have allowed the less-commercial people to surivive on the Web and not elsewhere. They just might not be targeting the same audience as TechMeme.

What’s TechMeme, by the way?

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:17:57 +0000

Yea, if I wrote 2-10 posts a day on the same topics, I would be going out of my mind bored and crazy. Scoble is a smart dude, but the world does revolve around more than Techmeme (I still don’t even visit the site). I believe that that best blogs take the best of the physical world and personal networking and turn that in to the best of the virtual and social media world.

By: Rapidfire at Like It Matters

Rapidfire at Like It Matters — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:15:17 +0000

[...] Coustan says don’t believe the hype about the hype. Hallett [...]

By: Dave Coustan

Dave Coustan — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:40:42 +0000

Amber: Recaptcha trying to tell us something? I just got “leukemia presently”.

I agree — Robert ought to do a better job at qualifying statements like this.

Rafi: I eagerly await the unveiling of Hiphopr.

Josh: Thanks for the pointer. TechMeme has its important place but it’s not a multitool and really serve a specific community.

Leah: It was perhaps wishful thinking.

Mistie: Right on.

By: Mistie Thompson

Mistie Thompson — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:36:15 +0000

Sad to see people jaded already, when what’s exciting is that people are communicating like never before in whatever format best suits them. What an opportunity to learn! I find it more exciting every day and can’t imagine being bored with any of it.

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:43:13 +0000

Ah, Dave, the OPML trade is BRILLIANT! We did it at work, or tried it, and I sent mine out first and then…

crickets

Nobody would share without cajoling, it was like some bad middle school prank. Who knew OPML could make me feel vulnerable.

By: Josh Hallett

Josh Hallett — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:04:27 +0000

Good stuff…there is life (and a whole other world) beyond the valley.

By: rafi

rafi — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:19:21 +0000

Thanks for the link but I hope you don’t feel betrayed when we launch our suite of related web 2.0 product sites next month.

Hipstr, backpackr, etc.