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That's leadership in my book Ian.
I started blogging in 2001, after Scoble. Was he a "leader" to me? No - he was a peer, someone doing the same sort of stuff as me. I relate to all of the above as peers, not as "leaders". That's the great thing about the Internet - you're only a follower if you want to be one. You get to define your own power relations.
It's like cold shower, refreshing and a bit extreme, but closer to a grounded reality than the "embrace the cloud" mantra of so many with all its caveat emptor Libertarian BS & attendant lack of any sense of communal (dare I say "civic") purpose in building something that lasts for more than just business reasons.
I bet many thought FriendFeed could have been the next David vs. the many Goliaths, around for a while, beating out the big brands in niche usership - especially a tech savvy crowd. Scoble is smart enough to have placed his eggs in every basket, to some degree. But, he's definitely feeling a tinge today and wondering how his beloved brand will be absorbed by the Borg.
And it is because of you, as you know, that I have a blog.
I have been lucky enough to sit at your dinner table, Dave, and have been blown away by the thoughtful and creative minds gathered there. Those minds know what is important, what is truly needed and how to build it and, more importantly, how to sustain it. For real.
The majority of other folks just want to make a buck and then count them. Sometimes there is elegance and creativity there too. Usually, it's just muck. That's ok.
phil
@wodaj
FriendFeeds and Facebooks and Microsofts will come and and go. They can be bought and sold, because they're not human. Robert is human. Companies can't be charming and lovable. They can, sometimes, for awhile. Ben & Jerrys did. Zappos did. But they got sold. You know, like slaves.
The only publication on Earth that's all Robert's is his blog. That's where his soul is, because he can't sell it.
Dave's last line is also right. We're back to first principles now. Users and developers, diggin' together. Working on stuff that will survive the deaths of companies -- and of bright ideas that can't live anywhere but inside companies that own roach-motel environments that can be sold or shut down tomorrow.
The Net is Eden. Blogging is native there. Microblogging is native there. Non-substitutable walled corporate gardens are not. Even if they can fake it for awhile.
Accept no substitutes. That's one of the lessons.
and yet, it's posted on the disqus.com service. :/
FF has always given you the "right to leave" by supplying an RSS feed.
What you are saying has merit. Unless you own the stack from hardware, software to users this will always be a possibility.
"Being good" [0] as a Startup, means you'll attract people to help you. I suspect the buyout from new owners might give some insight to how FB might behave in the future.
[0] http://paulgraham.com/good.html
them) but how much does it cost to say "thank you?"
One issue though, getting involved in other social networks that are not open to the web means you get easy access to their audience. though I suppose I could argue that if you content is good enough people will reference it anyway. But participation in social networks still makes sense.
I think that to some blogs might be passe, but in reality bloggers continue to plod along creating great content, partly because its their site.