DISQUS

I am man, hear me roar.

Best of luck Chris - no doubt you'll be a success at what ever you do next. Look forward to hearing about your new adventure. Your honesty has always been very refreshing and I look forward to learning more from you.

That makes me sad :(

I agree with Evano,

It is a pretty damning and naive statement to say that citizen journalism is dead.

Because one company didn't get its formula right means nothing to the industry as a whole.

Here's the thing, it is a great opportunity to come and pitch to you if you live in San Francisco. Not me - in fact I don't even live in the US. No I hail from Perth, Western Australia - the most isolated city in the world.
So how do I network? I use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jaku. When you are running a start-up from the outside lane - these are vital to making connections.
But it's also what thousands of others use and standing out on Scoble's friends list is hard.
Most of the awesome contacts I made on Twitter were from getting on there early and forming friendships before the masses arrive. So now I count people who work in my area - social media - on the other side of the world as contacts - Chris Brogan, Jeff Pulver, Chris Abraham, Mike Sizemore, CC Chapman (and others).
So when I stumbled across Scoble's competition to insult him in order to score a Pownce invite it was an opportunity to get in early. Form new contacts, before friends piled up and everybody becomes anybody.
When I looked at the insults they were pretty drab - I wrote down my insult and hey, it hit the nail. From following Scoble's Twitter I knew it got to him when people unfriended him. So I scored the first invite he had to give away.
Then my email didn't validate, so I scrambled to refile something and presto it did :)
I hate begging for invites and this one felt like a prize - I have never won anything before.
But the invite has not arrived, and I am noticing on Twitter that it is happening to others. Tara Hunt just complained hers hasn't shown up.
I have not been able to contact Scoble to find out about whether the invite was actually sent or not.
So this is also a lame attempt at that, but thought the point about the importance of these networks outside of Silicon Valley was worth it too, given that Scoble is giving anyone who has a bit of intuition a chance try make contact with him there.
Good luck with the iPhone sit out ;)

Dunno why my email is not valid - looks correct!

I have unsubscribed to you on Twitter ...

Sometimes people use "we" instead of "I" not to pump themselves up, but to deflect attention away from themselves.
I know we do it.
Great post BTW

I blogged about a similar comment from the The New York Times executive Nicholas Ascheim, who said that
“The most expensive thing is the journalists themselves. That’s why user-generated content is interesting."
Mainstream media will aalways be shackled by its own business model.