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Re: Why Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are NOT Competing

John Koetsier — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:46:50 -0000

This:

"Microsoft’s future is providing the platform for the distribution and dissemination of information."

... is an interesting quote when you consider Apple's successes in exactly that sphere and Microsoft's notable misses. Just add "creation" to the distribution and dissemination and it'll be close to right.

Re: Automatically Add Marketing Content to Your Web Site

John Koetsier — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:40:37 -0000

That page looks AWFULLY scamish ... and the one testimonial on the page links to a single-page site with very similar characteristics (exactly the same page width, for instance).

You'll have to give some more information about this to make it more credible in my eyes.

Re: Automatically Add Marketing Content to Your Web Site

John Koetsier — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:32:35 -0000

"nobody is trying to sell you anything"

Actually, you are. The link you provided includes your affiliate ID ... so that you'll benefit financially if people follow it and use the site's services.

Nothing wrong with that - don't get me wrong - but mentioning it would be a little more straightforward.

Re: Social Media is No Place for Robot Behavior

John Koetsier — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:19:28 -0000

Coincidence, coincidence ....

Could it be that posting every 2 minutes on Twitter is a symptom of "robotic" posting behaviour? I tend to think so.

I was thinking about that this morning:
http://sparkplug9.com/2008/12/28/how-to-get-un-...

Re: Media Consumption: Scoble vs Rubel

John Koetsier — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:05:13 -0000

Interesting!

I think I fall somewhere down the middle ... not so highly organized in my consumption as Steve Rubel, but nowhere near the firehouse to my mouth as Scoble.

(Perhaps that's why I don't need to be quite as organized as Rubel!)

Re: How Microsoft can shut down Mini-Microsoft

John Koetsier — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:33:53 -0000

Scoble: Congrats on this post, but more on the thinking behind it.

Some of your ideas are wacky and far-out, but that's the magic of them. And some of them are just simple basic common-sense.

Even partial implementation would have huge positive impact on most companies.

Re: New Sony, Old Sony

John Koetsier — Mon, 01 May 2006 17:39:42 -0000

That looks so awesome and yummy I can almost forget that I - don't - actually - watch - much - TV ... and don't want to watch as much as I already do watch.

On another topic: why are you not filthy rich, Robert? You are one of the most important people at Microsoft, whether or not they realize it, and should obviously be paying you more.

(Or should I chalk up your occasional can't-afford-this-or-that comments to the astronomical prices of Seattle real estate?)

Re: Windows more reliable than RedHat Linux? Yes, says Yankee Group

John Koetsier — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:45:55 -0000

Hrm, the Yankee group has a well-publicized history of questionable techniques to perhaps manipulate survey results in favor of Windows.

Example:
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat...

Sorry, Scoble, but I wouldn't trust anything that came out of that organization.

Re: Hello from the road

John Koetsier — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:38:50 -0000

Robert, are you crazy? (Rhetorical question.)

Publishing your cell number on your blog ... sheesh, I wonder how many calls you'll get. And how many of them will be worthwhile.

Actually ....

You should get some kind of recording capability on your cell, and then publish them as a podcast here.

That could be cool.

Re: Looking at Vista

John Koetsier — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:51:47 -0000

Nothing like a real opinion to bring out the sharp knives and hateful comments.

Scoble, I know that getting a lot of comments that are negative, nasty, and just plain stupid can start to weigh on you sometimes - don't let it.

Thanks for your blog and for calling 'em as you see 'em.

Re: Wordpress.com getting new features

John Koetsier — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:55:38 -0000

Wordpress does have the best spam protection in the world, and that's because it's a distributed system that, when you say something is spam, knows it's spam for Uncle Joe's blog too.

Akismet is the technology, and I blogged about it here:
http://www.sparkplug9.com/bizhack/index.php/200...

Re: Video from Burning Man

John Koetsier — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:07:32 -0000

Scoble,

Off-topic I know: SORRY! But I know email won't reach you.

There is a major issue with Technorati that seems to be hitting C, D, E, and Z-list bloggers that none of us can seem to get an answer or solution to. I've tried multiple Support requests, email to Dave Sifry, posts on his blog ... no response.

Can you help by publicizing it? Please.

Details and links to others having the same issue:
http://www.sparkplug9.com/bizhack/index.php/200...

Thanks!

Re: It’s the small things at Google that impress

John Koetsier — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:45:39 -0000

If only, only, only Technorati had the same listening attitude.

Robert, did you see my comment on the previous post? Are you able to help?

Re: Don’t send bloggers stuff for free unless it’s good

John Koetsier — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:58:49 -0000

This is hilarious. If your product sucks, keep it away from geeks and bloggers at all costs.

Advertise in dead tree publications. Advertise on network TV. Anywhere smart technical people aren't.

And hope like heck they won't find you.

Re: Riding Theresa’s horse on her videoblog

John Koetsier — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:32:17 -0000

What I want Technorati to have up its sleeve is A SERVICE THAT ACTUALLY FREAKING WORKS.

At least most of the time.

Re: Dave’s new HD rocks

John Koetsier — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:47:15 -0000

I think I get what Dave's talking about, and I understand where Robert is coming from, but life-changing?

As I said on my blog: Dave may need to get out more.

http://www.sparkplug9.com/bizhack/index.php/200...

Re: Jason Calacanis on the loose?

John Koetsier — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:44:39 -0000

Calacanis was the only reason anyone intelligent paid any attention to AOL, period. Incredible that they'd let him walk.

Re: Help a San Jose Mercury News columnist blog

John Koetsier — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:02:59 -0000

Yes, I have some advice for Mike: Get linked to by Scoble. Oh, oops, already done. Check!

Re: Congrats John

John Koetsier — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:54:16 -0000

I really hope that comment is tongue-in-cheek, John, 'cause otherwise you come off as a real asshole.

Re: Achievements are how Microsoft is gonna edge in on Google

John Koetsier — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:49:24 -0000

You "earned an achievement?" Do you know how unbelievably asinine that sounds?

I love geek gadgets far more than most, but please, can we have grown men act like it. My kids earn neopoints on neopets.com, and they're really happy that they've got 90+ thousand of them. I never would have thought that adults would get sucked into the same marketing/ego/nonsense vortex.

I hate this "adultescent" stuff.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

John Koetsier — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:00:18 -0000

If you read Cisco's blog posting, it's clear that this was not a licensing issue or a money issue. Rather, Cisco wanted to partner with Apple.

Well ... that's a much different animal, and something that Apple does not do easily or often.

My take:
Why Apple left Cisco at the alter

Re: The $10,000 Gnomedex

John Koetsier — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:01:48 -0000

John C. Welch: that's a meaningless comment.

Outside of their constituency, no-one has any influence. But Scoble obviously has more influence (just on the blog, never mind FC) than just about any corner preacher ... at least in terms of immediately visible impact and numbers of readers/hearers.

Sure, Robert's constituency is narrow when compared to the whole world. So's just about anyone's. How wide is yours?

Re: Interview about Google Gears

John Koetsier — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:19:29 -0000

This is very, very timely. Gears is a big, big deal, as it also really reduces the complexities of writing apps for desktop ... and gives you global sync for free!

Sorta like Mozilla XUL but understandable and connected.

Re: Not yet on TechCrunch: killer video search engine (ClipBlast)

John Koetsier — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:26:01 -0000

Clipblast sucked on a simple search that I tried:
http://www.sparkplug9.com/bizhack/2007/06/22/cl...

Re: Jakob Nielsen says “don’t be like Scoble”

John Koetsier — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:53:07 -0000

Scoble,

Personalities, history, and foibles aside, there are many roads that lead to Rome, and Neilsen has picked out one that works for him.

He's specifically targeting that method to less than 1% of the population, and specifically targeting that method to in-depth, complex, multi-faceted business challenges.

As such, that makes perfect sense.

Your blog, on the other hand, is short bits that invariably link elsewhere, keeping reading on top of developing news, conversations, trends, etc. Totally different purpose, totally different form, totally different style.

He is Encyclopedia Britannica; you are watercooler. Both are good, both are needed, both are valuable.

They're just different.

(And btw, yes, his design sucks, and yes, he needs to update it.)

Re: JimDo: not your father’s FrontPage

John Koetsier — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:21:27 -0000

Scoble,

> But if you are looking to build an online Web site

What if I just want to build an offline website?

(Sorry, that's my smartass moment of the day!)

Re: Buzzwire: audio and video for your cell phone

John Koetsier — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:00:07 -0000

Why would I want to "bring audio, video reports along with Internet radio stations" to my cell phone?

I hate my cell phone. All it's somewhat acceptable for is taking and making calls.

Of course, it's not an iPhone, but if I had an iPhone (not available in Canada yet, btw) then why would I need this service? I'd just go the the web and get what I want.

All these companies providing custom portals into web content are behind the curve.

Re: Yelp events compared to Upcoming; Incoming “bacn”

John Koetsier — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:56:21 -0000

Scoble,

> I know you’re getting sick of hearing
> me talk about Facebook but it is now
> the MUST HAVE portal for my digital life

I love this ... knowing that you have the attention span of a fruit fly, I wonder what your MUST HAVE social networking portal will be in a year or so.

I'm sure it'll be something different, and I'm sure it'll be something interesting, and I'm sure we'll be hearing all about it on your blog.

:-)

Re: I’ve redesigned

John Koetsier — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:54:15 -0000

Very nice, very nice.

Comic strip blogger: Scoble is often a test bed for testing of new technology. Just wait, you'll probably be able to do it as well pretty soon.

Re: Canon takes good PR and throws it in the trash

John Koetsier — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:34:51 -0000

Wow. The cluetrain has so come and gone ... and yet so many have not even taken a look out the window.

Re: Blogging, changing every day

John Koetsier — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:39:49 -0000

Robert,

>Most of my blogger friends think I’m nuts focusing so much
>effort over on FriendFeed.

They're right. You're a digital sharecropper (a la Nick Carr) building a business for someone else while your own is suffering. The reality is that if you played your cards right you'd be making multiple thousands per month off your own blog ... and wouldn't have to whine about not being able to afford the new Canon.

:-)

Seriously, I think you can do that without losing credibility. Long-term, it makes much more sense for you.

Re: Got a real-time ego problem? Get a room!

John Koetsier — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:26:24 -0000

Wow, Scoble is blogging again.

:-)

Re: Jive finishes up my enterprise disruption week

John Koetsier — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:10:55 -0000

Another company that does very interesting and similar things (customer collaboration in product development and marketing, as well as internal "web2.0" social networks) is ThinkPassenger.

I interviewed with them about 6 months ago and they are doing some very interesting things with Fortune 500 companies, including Apple.

(Of course, the Apple stuff is all internal.)

Re: A Free Zune or iPod to One Lucky MyBlogLog Community Member

John Koetsier — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:37:12 -0000

OK, fine, I'll enter the contest. But I want an iPod, not a crappy Zune.

:-)

Re: Getting your Blog to the “A-List”

John Koetsier — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:40:37 -0000

Way to go - totally agree.

I developed a few thoughts on this A-lister conspiracy myself.

. . .
. . .

Big kudos on the "quasi-marketing-technology-geek-Christian-father dude" bit, btw. I could describe myself the same way!

:-)

Re: 5 Bizarre Tips to Double Your Productivity

John Koetsier — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:04:55 -0000

Great post - love it. Much better than the endless lists of 20-30 productivity tips that you can't even remember, never mind implement.

Re: WordPress Contact Form with Spam Protection Version 2.0.0 Released!

John Koetsier — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:55:25 -0000

Douglas, that rocks. Thanks so much for making such a great plugin that I've already found useful on a site I did for a non-profit and I think I'll find useful again on a site I'm doing for my artist brother-in-law.

Re: Rogers is experiencing iPhone activation problems

John Koetsier — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:12:39 -0000

I was in a Rogers store this morning and waited hours and hours for their servers to perk up ... I finally got out without finishing, but with an iPhone that I could finish setting up in iTunes.

Annoying, but at least I now have a 3G iPhone.

Interestingly, the store I was at had only 3 16GB iPhones. I was third in line and got one ...

Re: Metaholic

John Koetsier — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:22:47 -0000

Is it just me or is this blog user-hostile design? A little more contrast between the text and the background white would be a major step forward.

Re: Networking and numbers

John Koetsier — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:40:32 -0000

Ummm ... am I the only one who get the irony here?

It's all about the quality of the relationships, but you have 18,000 followers?

How 'quality' can those relationships possibly be? Have you personally corresponded with each of them?

There's nothing wrong with that many followers. And it can be a 'relationship' of mutual interest. But it is not a high quality personal relationship.

Re: Online file storage from ... Dilbert?

John Koetsier — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:04:00 -0000

I think it's kind of funny, myself:
http://sparkplug9.com/dilbertfilescom-not-just-...

Re: Who Will Make Money with User-Generated Online Video?

John Koetsier — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:21:44 -0000

Interesting ... I wonder about YouTube changing its terms of use - I'm certainly less likely to use it for my webcasts if they can just take the content and use it however they want.

BTW, I've been following your blog for some time in Bloglines, and you may not have noticed but you are one of the inaugaural members of the SLOB awards:
http://www.sparkplug9.com/bizhack/index.php/slo...

If you wish, you can display the SLOB logo on your site or in a post.

:-)

Re: If Only There Were More Danny Sullivans

John Koetsier — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:49:14 -0000

Not only how rare people like Danny are in general ... but how rare they are in his industry. Or, should I say, the wider industry of SEO experts.

Re: The Zen of 2.0

John Koetsier — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:59:51 -0000

What does this *mean*:

>>I think the evolution we are seeing at the convergence
>>of media and technology can be described as shift from
>>Western constructs to more Eastern constructs.

I know it's popular to say things like that, but what is "western" and what is "eastern?" And don't tell me that Eastern is more simple, or more connected, or more social. The "east" is a lot more complicate than that, and not reducible to simple stereotypes.

And I'm not sure what you mean by the Zen of 2.0. In what sense are you using the word "zen?" Zen philosophy is about experiencing now-ness and simplicity and understanding the real nature of things, which may lie under the surface reality. In your paragraph about Google you give an example without actually saying what the "different" way is.

Sorry, but I think this post is a lot of hot air: explanatory without explaining. Sounds good, but no substance.

I know what web 2.0 is intuitively. I experience web 2.0 by being able to participate in an online space. Your explanation introduces unnecessary concepts and clouds what it is supposed to make clear.

However, I guess that's OK in a koan-style epigrammatic ambiguity that sounds really deep but has no actually semantic value.

Re: Google Wants To Own the Business of Content

John Koetsier — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:47:23 -0000

This is not surprising:

Of course Google wants to own the business of content

Re: Does All Advertising Want to Be Free?

John Koetsier — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:34:24 -0000

Either I'm stupid, and too quickly jumping to what I think is the obvious response to your post, Scott, or you're missing something really obvious.

Conversations are slow, by and large, because they require the formation of some level of relationship. Sure, there's the occasional viral shooting star that jumps to huge numbers very quickly, but for most companies, building audience is long, hard, slow work.

Good work, and rewarding work, but long and slow.

Advertising is a way to short-cut that process ... a way to speed up awareness levels that then buy you the opportunity to have a conversation with a potential client, which in turn buys you the opportunity to potentially make a sale.

Let's face it: not everyone who needs office cleaning done in Anytown is going to jump on MySpace to find a janitor. And not every janitorial firm will rank in the first few Google results, particularly if they're new to the new media game.

So advertising is a way to pay to get on that first page. Maybe it's temporary. Maybe you abandon it when you get big and smart and popular enough.

But it's a good kick-start.

Re: Blog Herald Column: If No One Reads What You Write, Thatâ€™s Because It Sucks

John Koetsier — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:13:00 -0000

I'm not reading that because it sucks. :)

Re: 7 Ways Apple TV Changes The Game And What Podcasters Need To Know And Do About It

John Koetsier — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:16:16 -0000

My living room to yours ... courtesy AppleTV. I agree that this is a game-changer, and I hope Apple sees it as such enough to really market this bigtime.

Re: Quincy Smith President Of New Company-wide CBS Interactive; Larry Kramer Out As Head Of CBS Digital

John Koetsier — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:59:08 -0000

As Matthew Ingram points brilliantly points out, this bozo's impressive-sounding sound bite ...

"The important thing is that we get confidence internally on a set interactive strategy that will immediately change and be organic as we grow. From there we can think about how we can execute on this as a team.”

... actually contains about zero meaningful content.

http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/06/lev...

Re: Is the American Meritocracy Dead?

John Koetsier — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:03:34 -0000

I believe in merit and hard work and personal effort, but a thousand-to-one ratio of CEO-to-worker pay is disgraceful. I do not think a society with inequities like that can be stable in the long term.