DISQUS

I didn't flame, I just spoke the truth from my context. I don't get any useful information from your blog. Your blog has become uninteresting to me. I think a lot of people would be better off not reading you. I don't think you contribute a lot to the areas of the internet and world I'm interested in. All these people buy into the "cult of Scoble" and link to you, hanging on your every word. That's not me.

I'm a lot smarter reading people like Alex Russel, Brent Simmons, Scott Hanselman, and Wolf Rentzsch than I am reading you. It's the difference between a Petzold book and People magazine.

"So that invalidates your whole point"

Curses, foiled again!

Which facts did I miss? I'll correct my database of useless knowledge, which seems to be larger than my database of important stuff.

So bascially another "friends of Scoble" dinner, just like the "randomly selected" search champs that includes a lot of the same people from last year.

So apparently, Microsoft *is* listening to *a* community. It just so happens that everyone in the community is friends with Scoble.

Plus "A flock developer" and "Tara Hunt". Not really a big stretch to get those two together it seems. And Beth Goza, you mean formerlly of Microsofts Beth Goza? Isn't she dating or married to PT? (Why in the hell do I remember these things, but I keep forgetting to call my broker?) Hmmmmmmm, did Thomas get to invite his SO at least? hehe

Hey, I've got an idea. For the next dinner with Alchin, how about if you just walk around downtown Seattle or San Francisico and ask people if they are interested in Windows and would like a free dinner.

"Carol Grojean VAVA VOOOM!!!! Ya, lucky guy Scoble."

Way to reduce her years of hard work down to her tits buddy. I'm sure your appreciation of her looks far outweighs anything she is accomplishing at Microsoft.

re: Todays edge case is also tomorrows mainstream user.

Todays edge case is also tomorrows nutjob who bet on a bad idea. Just because you are all alone on the ski trail doesn't mean you are a trailblazer, you could just be lost.

Hey, look on the bright side.

For once Microisoft sucks just as much as Yahoo. Not more!

Yay!

Macworld only costs $45?!? I may go next year. Heck, I paid $50 to get into that crappy DevDays thing last year and it was worthless. At least at Macworld I'd get to go to San Francisco and get some schwag!

PS. Did you ever think you'd see people clamoring for DRM on their computer?

"“So, instead of giving mac users access to the paid content at the Windows based music store, they stop the access to the free content! And they call the iTunes Music store closed!”"

And then they wonder why Apple customers don't complain when Apple comes out with all these proprietary lock-in solutions like ITMS.

BECAUSE IF APPLE DOESN'T TAKE CARE OF THEIR CUSTOMERS NO ONE ELSE WILL!. All the big media companies are contractually obligated to suck at the teat of Microsoft and Microsoft doesn't care

I've purchased about 15 Windows based DRM music files from WalMart and Napster. Can't play them natively on my Mac so I have to burn them to CD and import them. Tell me Microsoft, how is that supporting your customers?
I can't go to Movielink and download any movies or shows because WMP on OS X doesn't support the DRM.

Once again, Apple "Gets it" and Microsoft doesn't. I can buy any content at ITMS and play it on either my Windows or OS X box. Heck, I don't even have to copy the file to my OS X box. I can just connect to my shared music and play it. Can't do that with WMP on Windows can I?

That's why ITMS gets my money and Walmart/Napster/Yahoo don't.

I don't ask other people to link to me.

I don't email links to posts that I've written to people telling them. "I thought you might be interested in this."

It can't run Windows, at least not until Vista comes out. It uses Intels EFI.

"Does anybody else see the irony in the son of the most well-known Microsoft Evangelist being so pro-Apple?"

Well what else can the kid rebel against?

"Does it run windows?"

LOL, that takes the wind right out of the sails of one of Roberts first questions whenever someone mentions a platform other than Windows. "Does it run application X?"

Well, yes. If you dual-boot. ;)
I guess he'll have to modify his question to be, "Does it have a digitizer pen?" hehehe ;)

"30% marketshare with a $2,000 PC?"

What's the marketshare for Tablet PCs?

"Oh, and did I mention that Patrick really doesn’t like the name?"

Why would you ask if you had mentioned it? Does your blogging tool use white on white for the colors in the posting area? Can't you just look back and SEE if you mentioned it. It's like typing. "Hang on, phone. Ok I'm back.". ;)

I shudder to think what they'll call the Ibooktels.

hey, I think I called the podcasting upgrades in an earlier comment thread here. I thought they would be included in iTunes instead of Garageband though. Close counts doesn it?

Dude, you're presenting RSS to Microsoft employees and Steve Jobs is SHIPPING UPDATES to his product lines that "get" RSS.

So it's 3-D right? If he points it up who's feed does he get? ;)

re: X-play. Morgan Webb is on there for the 12-15 year old boy hard-on demographic and Adam Sessler is annoying. But I'll say this, he hasn't changed any throughout all of the mergers. So he may really be that wacky-in-a-contrived-and-phony-way all the time.

But the reviews seem honest.

"morphed into the fantastic G4 Video Game TV, (which actually is quite good, esp. Icons, Adam and Morgan)."

WTF are you smoking?! I can't believe anyone would utter the words "fantastic" with "G4 TV". G4 killed whatever soul TechTV had and replaced it with contrived "wackyExtreme" hosts and content that maybe 12 14-year old boys care about. Once you are syndicating "The Man Show" for cryin' out loud, you've pretty much hit rock bottom. Icons is occasionally entertaining. But they CONSTANTLY re-use footage within each show. So they only have about 4 shots that just get repeated ad nauseum. ("Oh look, there's Mario jumping over the barrel at the bottom of the screen AGAIN. What's that? 40 times so far since the commercial?"

re:Rocketboom. It reminds me of Saturday Night LIve. And not from the 70's or 80's. The current wasteland that is SNL. On occasion a funny bit will emerge, but is it worth sitting through all the Jimmy Fallon skits to get to it?

Adam:

LOL, guess their marketing dept. needs a little more work.

Whatever happened to Paul Allens little Vulcan computer?

re: OQO, nope they upped the USB to 2.0, but the built in wireless is still 802.11b. Nifty, so you have to take up the only USB port to get the gain in bandwidth. Or plug in a hub.

I'm not convinced that thing will ever ship. They've been hyping it forever.

Is that the same OQO that ships with USB 1.0 and 802.11b?

re: Vongo Pongo site

Apparently I have an "OS Failure". Really? A "Failure"? Or is the real "Failure" their inability to provide me with a web site for my OS? Vongo is telling a potential customer that I have failed right out of the bat. With a promise that Mac support is coming, "really".

What a horrible message to send to potential customers.

Wait, since when does MTV play music?

Do two posts constitue an argument?