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Hi, please send an invite to steve.newson at gmail.com

Cheers

I would be grateful if someone could send me an invite.

Much appreciated,

Steve

It does all seem a bit of a storm in a tea cup. I certainly thought the eulogy that Mike Arrington wrote was a little premature.

Hi Matthew,

You might be interested in my look at the state of web based powerpointing a couple of weeks ago:

http://stevenewson.blogspot.com/2006/10/state-o...

Thanks for the tip about Vyew - I've been looking at that this morning and so far mightlily impressed. I've tried Webex and GoToMeeting in the past and of the two was a fan of the latter but they are both costly if you only want to use occasionally. The fact that Vyew intends to provide core functionality for free on an ongiong basis is a big attraction for me.

Now I just need my wife to get out of bed this morning so I can try out the online collaboration!

Couldn't agree more. I came at this from a slightly different angle - that a flashy interface isn't a substitute for process - but I share the sentiment that salivating over the product before it's even available to try is a bit premature.

It's certainly pretty cool stuff but it isn't going to solve your email problems. From a GTD process perspective you're still going to have to get the next actions out of your email client and into the todo lists in Scrybe, and I can't see easily how you'd operate lists for different contexts (@Home @Office etc) within Scrybe. I must admit to being tempted to have a look (I signed up for the beta) but I can't see Scrybe replacing my Outlook / NetCentrics GTD add-in combo anytime soon.

What I thought stood out as an idea was the way you could get Hipster PDA style functionality out of the product via the papersync feature. I liked that a lot.

Is ScobleShow the finalised name of the show or is that also under wraps until the relaunch?

I have a voice for print which is why I never got into the podcasting thing. I come from a part of the world where inhabitants are called Geordie's and we sound like this:

http://www.bobjude.co.uk/bobjude/geordie/geordi...

Things won't improve with vlogging :)

I never took anything you wrote about this scandal as anything other than an attack on the actions, not the person. I can see, however, why what you wrote nagged at you and I applaud what you have written here. I know you didn't write this to make this point, but I do think it shows that you are at heart a good person. And isn't this one of the truly positive points about blogging compared to old media - that it allows the essential humanity of the writer to come through.

As my wife ofte says to me "they nailed the last perfect person to a cross". We all make what we think of as mistakes, but how we deal with those mistakes tells us a lot about a person.

I agree that Facebook are likely to face a problem. They have created a gated community in which community members feel special. Now the gates are being thrown open and the community members fear the "riff raff" are going to come pouring in. I think that's the perception that the students are representing to you and right or wrong that's the percepion that the Facebook team need to address really fast.

I went to have a look at the article in the Blog Herald.

John Scoble?

I believe this is known as "exploitation".

I've emailed you a copy of the original Scott Adams posting.

You're on a magazine cover today as well:

http://stevenewson.blogspot.com/2006/08/magazin...

Am I correct in understanding that you are saying that marketing is now about a kind of two tier strategy:

(1) The blogosphere - where you can work upwards if you choose to do so and linking behaviour is key

(2) The non-blogosphere where key old media channels are still critically important

The wikipedia page defining a blog is going to be an interesting battleground.

I was sorry to hear this news. Please accept my condolences.

It's years since I had any training in presentation delivery but I do remember (1) tell them whay your going to tell them (2) tell them it (3) tell them you told them.

Having a story to tell and using "Beyond Bullets" and "Presentation Zen" techniques takes this to another level. And practice definitely helps.

I was almost physically sick before the first corporate presentation I gave over 20 years ago. I hear the same kind of fear today when geeks I work with are confronted with a requirement to deliver a presentation.

Eventually practice at presenting leads you to a level where you can be comfortable enough to allow questions to shape your presentation without totally disrupting your story. The best interruptions add to the story.

Sounds like your having fun with the presentations.

Keep on truckin!

Do you think there's any chance Christopher Coulter isn't listening anymore :)

I'm guessing the Dave Sifry news is either about funding or a buyout. If I'm right then I'm very pleased for Dave who, as I've commented on my own blog, is probably the most responsive CEO I've ever come across on the internet.

Can't say I blame you. When it becomes about other people's interests and not yours, then it ceases to be fun. I wonder sometimes if some forget that this isn't your job.

John - you're so missing the point but then we have reached that stage in the exchange where you don't care what I say.

I don't want to attack him there. I don't want to attack him here. I want him to stop his personal attacks. Challenge - fine. Argue - fine. Contradictory opinion - fine. Making it personal crosses the line. I totally care that he learns something. Some decent behaviour would be a good start.

Clearly i can't win with you. And probably not with him.

My sincere apologies to everyone for taking up so much bandwidth on such a waste of time. Sorry.

John - I'm not sure where I'm failing to get my point across to you but here's a final try - if Chris put himself in Scoble's shoes for one nanosecond he'd appreciate how spiteful he was being given the personal nature of his attacks. If my obviously pitiful attempt to say that is, in your opinion, as bullying as Coulter is being then so be it, but I don't see it that way.

I'm hoping this can be my last comment on this subject because one of the lessons I'm taking from Robert's and Hugh's comments is that I'm probably giving the ranters exactly what they want by rising to the bait.

John - that's Steve NEWSON. If you're going to pick a fight with me at least do me the courtesy of spelling my name right.

This blog (scobleizer) is about blogging. It's about having a (naked) conversation. It's about real people having conversations, not committe driven PR bullshit. People aren't perfect. I never said I was.

What I did say was that Chris Coulter was a bully.

I did imply that he should start his own blog so that he could feel what it was like to write a blog and have someone like himself make personal attacks, because personal attacks are hurtful and spiteful. My comment stands, it was my attempt to get Chris to tone down the nature of the personal attacks, what I called earlier in my first post the level of disrespect. I stand by that and my view that this isn't about penis size. It's anything but.

It's about common courtesy and decency.

Thanks for the sideswipe there John. And actually you're dead wrong about my stance being a penis - size challenge. I'll say it one more time: Chris Coulter's behaviour is rude, it's bullying, and it's unacceptable. There is nothing sad about standing up to a bully.

Jake - I want to read the blog and read the comments becuase I want to read the whole (naked) conversation. Whilst we are having that conversation what's happening is that we have a small number of people spoiling it for the rest of us. I'm specifically identifying a difference between those wishing to takes issue with something Robert or anyone else says and those who bully their way into the conversation through an attempt to be the rudest or to shout the loudest. It is bullying and it is not acceptable behaviour. Together we can apply peer presssure and ask Coulter and Goebbels to desist. Or we can let a bullying minority spoil it for the majority.

Dear Christopher Coulter. I don't know enough of the backstory to understand why it is that you are so disrespectful to Robert. But you know what, it's really becoming a bore. I think I know why Robert doesn't do more to discourage or prevent you from posting here; it probably has everything to do with his philosophy about the sanctity of "the conversation". I'd encourage Robert to think how he would react if your responses were translated to a live interaction. I can only tell you that in his shoes, I wouldn't put up with it for five seconds.

Don't (anyone) take this the wrong way. I'm all for a devils advocate. I'm all for an adult conversation in which people hold differing points of view. Not everyone is drinking the Microsoft Kool Aid. Based on what I've seen of Robert (in his blog and from podcasts and videos of his talks) he actually encourages challenge to established thinking, because such challenge is the beginning of change, and well thought out change is good.

Chris, I have a blog that's linked from this comment and I could really do with the traffic and comments... it would make my day if you would come and leave some input over there. I'd come to your place but I see that you haven't yet had the courage to open your own thoughts to the same cutting edge dissection that you seem to think Robert deserves.

Goebbbels - I hesitate to dignify your dross with a comment, and you have such a long way to go to be in the same class as Christopher Coulter. Stringing together something rational that makes a point would be a good start.