DISQUS

Mine went absolutely fine. I got a little queasy when I read this post, though. I can't imagine how I would have felt if the firmware update I rushed home to install after rock climbing last night hadn't worked out so well.

Major yuckiness!

I agree with you, Nick. But how will we ever know. Is Facebook going to make results public? Will individual application owners?

You do tend to overwhelm the news feed, Robert. :-)

You might want to let your friends know that there's a way to reduce the Scobleization of their News Feeds. It's pretty simple:

1) Go to your news feed and click the "Preferences" link in the upper right hand corner of the News Feed screen
2) Scroll to the section of the preferences menu that says "Less About These Friends."
3) Enter "Robert Scoble" in the "Person:" box and hit Add.

It's kind of hard to thumbs-down you, Robert. You're so darn interesting! ;-) But given your prodigious use of Facebook, it seems that downgrading your feed status means that you generate about the same number of stories as a normal person would if their status were not downgraded.

Just a suggestion for those whose feeds are becoming Scoble central.

Well this makes me feel a little bit better about my own blogging burnout. Even the greats get burned out sometimes.

Don't be ashamed of your love of cute things, Robert. If I didn't come across a cute kitten or puppy in my feed reader occasionally, I think I would go a bit dotty.

"The trick is in giving kids skills to separate the wheat from the chaff. Not trying to remove the whole kaboodle."

I can see why Patrick is such a great kid...

I can't decide whether Stevens is playing on people's ignorance and fear of the social Web, or whether he's just a doddering old fool.

Not to be a nitpicker or a pain in the ass, but the site's visitors grew to nearly 19 million. It didn't grow by nearly 19 million.

Still a 17.6% jump in unique visitors is utterly remarkable. It's absolutely enough to encourage other social networks to provide public or semi-public APIs.

I used SnapzPro to record myself using the interface. It's pretty damn buggy. It even thought that my personal blog was TechCrunch...

Weird.

There is such a thing as productive repurposing. It all really depends on what an individual blogger wants done with his content. I'd say Scoble's link blog falls under productive repurposing.

So you're still buying an iPhone? I though the reality distortion field was too intense for you.

I remember the first time I really screwed up with something I posted on my blog. Maryam helped me figure out how to fix it and, after I apologized, things worked themselves out quite nicely. It wasn't easy though.

They always say that to err is human and to forgive is divine. But they always seem to forget about how hard it is to apologize and admit you're wrong.

So kudos for doing that :-)

I can't tell the difference except when I'm watching sports. And then it really doesn't add anything to my enjoyment of the game.

The only HDTV that I was really able to see a difference in was one from SVA that I saw at CES. It was also very pretty and flat screen-y and would hang on my wall quite nicely.

Many happy returns of the day. :-)

Good point! I sort of took Jobs at his word when he said that third-party applications would be problematic. Maybe that was dumb of me.

What's up, Jobsie?

Now now, remember that Obama hasn't officially announced his candidacy yet.

Chris, in case you have the time and the inclination, I'd like to invite you to the bloggers-only party hosted by the Blog Business Summit team on January 9th.

There's more info about the party on cesbloggers.com on the "blogger party" page.

If you're interested in showing up, just send an e-mail to Teresa (her e-mail is attached to this comment) and we'll get you on the list.

Hey Jake! This has no bearing on your current post, but I saw it and thought you might find it interesting:


http://scobleizer.com/2006/12/26/shels-writing-a-new-book/

Oh Robert! I need to read your comments more often :-)

As you know, my services are available through my employer.

Wow! You guys are really hiring up all the talent out there! Be sure to leave some for the rest of us.

Robert, you are SUCH a crackhead!

That is all...

Hey Nate, you weren't only the cameraman. Sorry if you felt that way.

It was good to have you along. You should start a blog. You could call it "only the cameraman..."

Tee hee :-)

Hi Robert. I'm glad you had fun. As always, it was great to see you and Maryam!

BTW, I have that melted LP you were scratching with your butter knife. I consider it a piece of Robert Scoble memorabilia.

Hey Robert, bring one of those biz cards to the Blog Business Summit, why dontcha? I wanna see.

Alternatively, you could just post a photo.
Can't wait to see you guys!

As a geek, a recent grad, and a frequent Facebooker, I'm a fan of the feed feature. It doesn't violate anyone's privacy because nobody who couldn't see your information before can see it now. That part is absolutely true and has been confirmed by Zuckerberg.

The problem with the feed is how it was foisted upon the Facebook community with no warning, no public beta, and no community involvement in its development. It was an arbitrary, unilateral decision whose timing--as Janet Johnson so astutely observed--couldn't have been worse.

Truth be told, I've been pestering the Facebook team to start integrating news feeds for about six months now, and I couldn't be happier that they're listening. But they should start by adding a news feed to their blog and reinstating comments (which they shut off at the precise moment they launched the feed).

Robert: You're dead on with the granularity observation. I'd really like it if I could keep certain information, like when I leave notes for people and when I change my profile out of the feed. I would love to see it be fully customizable with an opt-out feature for people who are concerned about their privacy.

Hey Robert, I got straght A's, too. Can I have a MacBook?

Seriously, good job on the grades Patrick! It was great to see y'all at BlogHer.