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Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Corporate Logo Branding — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:32:31 -0000

Dave, everyone enjoys reading new and fresh contents on the web. I dont read news papers but epaper because most of the time I have laptop with me.
Using fresh contents will help visitors bookmark your main page and return each day.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

John Cass — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:45:12 -0000

Dave, enjoyed your article. I don't think creating content on your own is for everyone, yet! But I do think that for most people who have created more than a few pages, you begin to wonder why I don't have more control and ownership of the content I do control on social networks.

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.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Jerimy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:34:18 -0000

This is a company being sold to another company. This is business. Whoever liked, talked about and used a service is great but in the end it is just a service. The company doesn't own anyone (users) anything. Thanks.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Zombie Flash Games — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:13:37 -0000

Dave, I agree with you 100%

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Mark Essel — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:12:02 -0000

Just because they aren't your leaders Ian, doesn't discount that they are leaders to many others. The role of leader and follower is dynamic and topical.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Ian Betteridge — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:00:20 -0000

No, it's not. All of the above might be good at what they do; they might be ahead of the curve when it comes to adoption of practices and technologies; but they're not "leaders" unless the rest of us are "followers".

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.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Mark Essel — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:52:14 -0000

What category would you place Fred Wilson, Seth Godin, Dave Winer, and Robert Scoble. These gentlemen are leaders. And their influence is a function of their dedication to sustained thougtful sharing.

That's leadership in my book Ian.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Ian Betteridge — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:09:44 -0000

Yeah. And this time let's hope they learn that if your only hope of revenue is "sell out to someone big", you'll never build something really good.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Ian Betteridge — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:07:48 -0000

Blogging has a "leader"?

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Ian Betteridge — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:07:18 -0000

I wouldn't be fair to say that Robert got suckered, but he did forget the number one rule of business: The duty of any business is to maximise its value for the shareholders. It's something that gets forgotten the instant you cross the line from liking someone's products to be a "fan" or an "evangelist". If you give something for free, including your attention and your promotional abilities, don't expect a reward. You won't get one.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

xian — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:16:09 -0000

all we need is following/connection and better aggregation (contextual filters)

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

marybaum — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:55:37 -0000

Dammit, Dave, I thought I was done tearing up about this last week. But you're right. In many ways he built FriendFeed - and I do have this sense they could give him some acknowledgment on the way out the door. Yet it was the voluntarity (I'm coining that word now.) of his endorsement that made it precisely so valuable to the people who needed it as either an incentive to check it out or validation to stay. Publicly he seems to have accepted the terms all along - he continues (seemingly innocently) on his journey to bring the rest of us the new, the growing, the cool. So we'll see him at the next cool thing he falls in love with. And as you said, in the meantime, on his blog.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Mark Essel — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:29:38 -0000

Robert has served as a passionate leader to bloggers even if he hasn't blogged quite as often the last year or so. I enjoyed leveraging the great utility of friendfeed to support my blogging. I really loved getting the embed on my blog right after you told us how you did it a while before building43 came out.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Mark Essel — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:18:17 -0000

I made some great connections to folks on friendfeed. Sure I'm upset that there aren't longevity plans, but it's great inspiration to get the open social media we all would like to see rolling.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Mark Krynsky — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:12:20 -0000

Great post Dave. Words of wisdom no doubt. Sounds like we all should dust off our blogs and return to giving them the attention they deserve. I know that I plan to.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

robe1221 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:54:12 -0000

I think this is not the end of the Social Media Mashup!

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

dave — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:16:44 -0000

I agree, FF didn't have a bright future (necessarily, I had some ideas for
them) but how much does it cost to say "thank you?"

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Peter Renshaw — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:57:23 -0000

"... I guess I was making a broader generalization about putting your faith, time, effort and content into one place and then acting disappointed when the service doesn't act in your best interest. ..."

What you are saying has merit. Unless you own the stack from hardware, software to users this will always be a possibility.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Jenny, bloggess — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:54:01 -0000

Fabulous points. Much love to sweet Robert, in his hour of need.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

stevezim — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:50:14 -0000

Dave I agree with you 100%. Well said.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Taylor Marek — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:04:19 -0000

There ya go. I'll subscribe to that point! :D

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Paul Chaney — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:30:19 -0000

Robert, after having spoken to you and heard some emotion in your voice, then reading this, I totally agree with Dave. YOU deserve more than just a little credit. The social media sphere will see that you get it, if no one else does. "Natural born evangelist" is right... and a friend to us all. Kudos to you my friend. Don't ever stop doing what you're doing.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

peteaustin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:45:54 -0000

Only accept if there ARE substitutes. That's a bigger lesson.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Morgan Brown — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:24:22 -0000

Good point and thanks for pointing that out. I guess I was making a broader generalization about putting your faith, time, effort and content into one place and then acting disappointed when the service doesn't act in your best interest.

Re: Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News)

Daniel Latorre — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:48:24 -0000

Between the demise of Tr.im and Facebook's acquisition diluting the love poured into FriendFeed (by those who for some reason used it as anything other than an aggregation tool) I find it really good to go back and re-read Jason Scott's lovely prose in his post entitled "FUCK THE CLOUD" http://ascii.textfiles.com/...

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.