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Re: Techmeme: A Cautionary Tale

Scobleizer — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:47:41 -0000

insomniamg: there's only so much information one human being can consume, you're right. But in my case it's about 800 feeds which include about 6,000 bloggers (since one of my feeds, blogs.msdn.com, includes 4,000 or so Microsoft employees). That comes out to about 2,000 items a day that I'm reading and I'm putting out about 1,200 items a month. All manually without any algorithms.

Now, look at FeedHeads, an application over on Facebook. I have it on my profile and it aggregates about 1,000 people who are using Google or NewsGator feed readers to "share" favorite items. The app itself is often down, but points to a new kind of app that could come about: one that is as good as TechMeme in speed and is better than Digg in quality.

Anyway, Web popularity is a really tough thing to do. If it were easy to do, TechMeme would have seen more variants by now.

There are lots of ways to get discovered if you have a great blog, though. If you really think you have a great tech blog and aren't getting discovered, I'd sure love to hear about it. My phone number and email address are on my blog at http://scobleizer.com .

Re: Future-safe archives (Scripting News)

Scobleizer — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:43:30 -0000

Yeah, Archive.com isn't even close to complete. I'd guess they only have 10% of my first two-years worth of blogging backed up and none of the important ones, like what I wrote on 9/11.

Speaking of which I gotta write to Lawrence and see if he has a copy of all my earlier blogs on some hard drive somewhere.

Re: Should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook?

Scobleizer — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:33:33 -0000

It's not. This is the real Robert Scoble and I don't agree with the original poster.

Re: Scoble and his Facebook data (Scripting News)

Scobleizer — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:41:36 -0000

Allen: so let me get this right.

I don't have any right to stick your number that you gave me as a friend into my cell phone and call you? Why did you give it to me then?

I don't have the right to write down your address on a piece of paper? Why did you put it on your profile page then?

I don't have the right to look up your birthday and send you a birthday party invite in eVite? Why did you show me your birthday if you didn't want me to throw you a party?

I don't have the right to check if you also are on Upcoming.org, Flickr.org, Yelp.com, Plaxo.com, LinkedIn.com, or any number of other social networks?

If I write down your email address and then type it into my iPhone, is that OK? Why is that OK and it's not OK to just export it digitally and then import it into my iPhone.

Oh, and when you set up a new Facebook account it asks you to import all my data from Gmail. Why is it OK for Facebook to import from Gmail, but it isn't OK for Gmail to import from Facebook?

Translation: you're absolutely on the wrong side of the argument here.

Re: Gizmodo: Wrong, yes — but also right

Scobleizer — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:30:30 -0000

Excuse me while I pee on Apple's booth to prove I'm "independent."

This is total hogwash.

Re: Silicon Valley Arrogance

Scobleizer — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:53:17 -0000

Heh, I read this whole post while sitting in a conference in Geneva, Switzerland. They have Wifi here too! :-)

Re: Fast Talk Question - Can a business publication blend journalism and online community to create something better than either by

Scobleizer — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:14:41 -0000

Yes, and when we launch http://www.fastcompany.tv on March 3rd you'll see just how we can mix the two. Already I'm using this service: http://www.qik.com/scobleizer to get feedback LIVE WHILE I FILM INTERVIEWS from the community.

Re: Silicon Valley Arrogance

Scobleizer — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:45:18 -0000

Funny that that quote came from someone who lives in New York (as Fred updated his blog).

Re: Debating health care in 2008 (Scripting News)

Scobleizer — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:26:02 -0000

Dave: emergency rooms DO turn people away. Read this story from a friend of mine, Francine Hardaway: http://blog.stealthmode.com... -- it's stunning that this goes on.

Re: Debating health care in 2008 (Scripting News)

Scobleizer — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:27:50 -0000

lemonobrien: right, but we can afford the money to host a needless war. Or buy a new football stadium, as has been done in many communities.

Why can Europe afford to do this and we can't? I thought we were the richest country in the world.

Re: Office in a Cloud

Scobleizer — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:48:31 -0000

Tim: many of the Office 2.0 apps work offline thanks to Google Gears.

Re: My turn at the Microsoft/Yahoo fiasco

Scobleizer — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:33:52 -0000

Keep in mind that even though I think Yahoo is making a mistake by turning down this money I think Microsoft is making a bigger one by trying to take over Yahoo. I agree with Mini-Microsoft here.

Re: Journabloggers Should Do Their Work Too

Scobleizer — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:01:07 -0000

I hate having to rely on Compete.com and Alexa charts. I've found that they're very inaccurate pictures of real traffic. But they probably should be included on posts about companies to help readers figure out the truth.

Re: The REAL Problem with Mike Arrington and Robert Scoble…

Scobleizer — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:14:06 -0000

You're on TechMeme with this post.

I love it when people feel entitled to attack my entitlements!

Re: It’s the quality that counts

Scobleizer — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:47:25 -0000

Everyone is quality. I learn something from the janitor, just like I can learn something from the CEO. And, anyway, I've learned that quality to me is someone else's noise.

Re: Live-blogging from Mozillla press meeting (Scripting News)

Scobleizer — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:30:36 -0000

I wish I were there, but I'm still in New York. I like Firefox 3 better so far. Faster and I like the auto complete. I hate the moved home button, but change is hard.

Re: How could you do this to me Mr. Scoble?

Scobleizer — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:58:32 -0000

I followed you cause I find you interesting. I really don't care if you follow me or not.

Re: Why I unsubscribed from Robert Scoble’s Friendfeed

Scobleizer — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:42:39 -0000

Good point, we're all still learning what this stuff is for and what is good. The thing I like about FriendFeed is that I can see some signaling about what's important. Funny, though. I don't subscribe to FriendFeed in Google Reader, but I follow more than a thousand in FriendFeed itself. I find that it's interesting to have all this stuff coming at me.

Re: Why I unsubscribed from Robert Scoble’s Friendfeed

Scobleizer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:58:53 -0000

Even funnier. This whole comment stream showed up on my FriendFeed. Thus increasing the noise even more.

Re: Josh Dilworth

Scobleizer — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:21:34 -0000

Good insight. It's one reason I gave up on the news business, choosing instead to do longer, more thoughtful videos over on http://www.fastcompany.tv

There's just no reward in being part of the pack doing what everyone else is.

Re: Why today’s solo bloggers may not see Scoble-like fame…

Scobleizer — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:26:00 -0000

FriendFeed is doing a lot more to get exposure to new people and new ideas than anything else I've seen out there.

Re: A new kind of Twitter outage (Scripting News)

Scobleizer — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:10:43 -0000

I'm seeing the same problems with my account.

Re: What does an algorithm think? (Scripting News)

Scobleizer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:30:46 -0000

Interesting post. Just for the record, I have had two college level computer science courses and got through second year of calculus. Then the earthquake hit (I was in Physics class during the 1989 earthquake) and figured out I liked journalism more than computer science.

Since then I've worked for years at a computer programming magazine (Visual Basic Programmer's Journal) and have done almost 1,000 interviews with the world's top technologists.

But Dave is right. I still don't know anything. Which is why tomorrow I will do yet another interview with yet another technologist.

I write about tech from the standpoint of a user. I don't think you need to write code to be a user of things like Flickr or the iPhone. Do you?

Re: The Twitter outage persists (Scripting News)

Scobleizer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:05:25 -0000

Adam, I didn't post that much over the weekend, but did at least a few Tweets yesterday and a few this morning already.

Re: If this were a normal day on Twitter... (Scripting News)

Scobleizer — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:26:46 -0000

Through all this crap FriendFeed has continued to work perfectly. Twitter is in danger of being bandaged over by FriendFeed -- many of my favorite people have already moved their main Twitter-style conversations over to FriendFeed. In about a month 8,000 people have friended me over there, it is seeing AMAZING growth, much faster than Twitter.