Buh Bye Scoble
I haven’t yet quite figured this guy out. I keep hearing his name in a handful of the podcasts I listen to, and I think I’ve heard him on occasion on one or two (can’t remember really), so I figure he must be some important person in tech on the west coast. So I follow him on Twitter.
Yet day in and day out I think I have slowly started to realize why his name pops up frequently. How about a nice picture:
This was essentially what my Twitter feed looked like the two times I checked it today. Yeah, plastered with nothing but @ replies and that avatar that for some reason just weirds me out (have you seen the full photo? Is he a little person? Something’s really proportionately wrong with his left arm.)
I really can’t figure out where his popularity comes from other than the fact that he really likes to make himself heard. It’s nothing new apparently. If you check into his background, it looks like blogging and publishing has been his expertise going way back. Maybe that makes him popular? What do I know, I’m just a VMware/Systems Engineer at the ComputerWorld Magainze’s #1 of 100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology. I’m a blogger too, but I don’t blog for a living…so I guess that doesn’t make me popular.
I can’t really knock his work honestly, it looks like he’s done a lot of pretty decent interviews with high profile people. I haven’t really dug into a lot of what he does though, or how deep his technical background is really…I have no interest at this point. I get the impression he’s more “reporter” than “tech guru” though. Just likes to blog/write/video about the stuff more than anything.
Well, I’m unsubscribing him for the second time from my feed mainly because I’d like to check it and see what other people have to say. The other people I follow get buried so quickly by his chatting that I simply miss things unless I flip back multiple pages at a time. It’s just noise for me at this point. I’m not finding much value in it. Sorry Scoble, I’m sure it’s not that big of a deal for you. You have 21K other followers.
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