Comments on: I Expect Robert Scoble’s Sabbatical To End By The End of The Week http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:30:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Jim http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-63529 Jim Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:05:19 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/#comment-63529 Totally agree Tony. All of us have shitty days and weeks at work. Hell, I'm a programmer and I often wonder what the point of it all is but at the end of the day I get paid and life isnt too bad. If you need a break then take it and just say "Im on vacation". Recently I have real problems identifying what his blog is. Some posts are good, focusing on what I presume the blog is about, tech. Some posts are borderline obsessive (read iPhone, N95 etc) whilst others are either emotional/family related which to be honest don't really interest me. There's far too much to read on the web than filtering through emotional posts about someones state of mind - hey, its a TECH BLOG! Of couse, it's his personal blog and he can write about what he wants *but* he has cultivated the blog on the basis that it's technical and he also uses it as a vehicle to push his numerous (work) video postings so I dont believe his podtech work and the blog are as seperated as shel (above) said. Totally agree Tony.

All of us have shitty days and weeks at work. Hell, I’m a programmer and I often wonder what the point of it all is but at the end of the day I get paid and life isnt too bad. If you need a break then take it and just say “Im on vacation”.

Recently I have real problems identifying what his blog is. Some posts are good, focusing on what I presume the blog is about, tech. Some posts are borderline obsessive (read iPhone, N95 etc) whilst others are either emotional/family related which to be honest don’t really interest me. There’s far too much to read on the web than filtering through emotional posts about someones state of mind – hey, its a TECH BLOG!

Of couse, it’s his personal blog and he can write about what he wants *but* he has cultivated the blog on the basis that it’s technical and he also uses it as a vehicle to push his numerous (work) video postings so I dont believe his podtech work and the blog are as seperated as shel (above) said.

]]> By: Maria http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-63445 Maria Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:26:42 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/#comment-63445 I subscribed to his Twitter posts for a while and I came off thinking that the guy was way too full of himself. (Oddly enough, Twitter usually turns me on to good bloggers; I guess Scoble doesn't come off well in 140 characters or less.) And I agree with Tony -- he's got enough fans cutting him a load of slack. I just think Tony might have had a slow news day (so to speak) if he bothered to spend the time writing this post. Ain't worth the ink (so to speak). I subscribed to his Twitter posts for a while and I came off thinking that the guy was way too full of himself. (Oddly enough, Twitter usually turns me on to good bloggers; I guess Scoble doesn’t come off well in 140 characters or less.) And I agree with Tony — he’s got enough fans cutting him a load of slack.

I just think Tony might have had a slow news day (so to speak) if he bothered to spend the time writing this post. Ain’t worth the ink (so to speak).

]]> By: Gary http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-63342 Gary Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:34:05 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/#comment-63342 He could have just said...Wow man...I need a vacation! He could have just said…Wow man…I need a vacation!

]]> By: Tony Hung http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-63338 Tony Hung Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:09:26 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/#comment-63338 Robert (Seidman), I got you down for $5 on the day after Labour Day. Who else is in? :) Robert (Seidman),

I got you down for $5 on the day after Labour Day. Who else is in? :)

]]> By: Tony Hung http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-63337 Tony Hung Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:06:40 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/#comment-63337 Shel, Yes, I know he derives no direct income from Scobleizer, but he is using his blog in the smartest manner possible: an indirect level to grow (and maintain) his tech brand. In that way, it is very much part of his "job", i.e. the Robert Scoble Brand. Secondly, and lastly, he doesn't need any slack cutting from me (I mean, who the heck am I?); he has loads of fans who are happy to do all the slack-cutting in the world. Do I think everyone deserves a break every now and again? Of course. Do I think its unseemly to frame it in a "oh woe is me, the blogosphere isn't talking about things that are important" when you've cultivated your online identity and brand through the blogosphere? Yes, I do. Shel,

Yes, I know he derives no direct income from Scobleizer, but he is using his blog in the smartest manner possible: an indirect level to grow (and maintain) his tech brand. In that way, it is very much part of his “job”, i.e. the Robert Scoble Brand.

Secondly, and lastly, he doesn’t need any slack cutting from me (I mean, who the heck am I?); he has loads of fans who are happy to do all the slack-cutting in the world.

Do I think everyone deserves a break every now and again? Of course. Do I think its unseemly to frame it in a “oh woe is me, the blogosphere isn’t talking about things that are important” when you’ve cultivated your online identity and brand through the blogosphere?

Yes, I do.

]]> By: shel israel http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-63334 shel israel Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:03:32 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/#comment-63334 A couple of points. Scobleizer is not "part of the job, man." No one pays Robert to blog. o one ever has. When he was at Microsoft, he did the blog in his own time. It is true that Robert seems to crave the public eye more than the rest of us, and thus gets more up close and personal than most people do. The stuff he wrote when his mother died, for example was incredibly revealing. I think you should cut the guy some slack. Either that, or you should just not read him anymore and he will be onme person less popular. A couple of points. Scobleizer is not “part of the job, man.” No one pays Robert to blog. o one ever has. When he was at Microsoft, he did the blog in his own time. It is true that Robert seems to crave the public eye more than the rest of us, and thus gets more up close and personal than most people do. The stuff he wrote when his mother died, for example was incredibly revealing. I think you should cut the guy some slack. Either that, or you should just not read him anymore and he will be onme person less popular.

]]> By: Robert Seidman http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-63333 Robert Seidman Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:53:10 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/08/15/i-expect-robert-scobles-sabbatical-to-end-by-the-end-of-the-week/#comment-63333 Tony, if you're running a pool, I've got $5 on the day after Labor Day. ; ) He puts himself out there, with all the wackyness --"There are 6 Billion people in the world and 5.8 Billion of them are my friends in Facebook. Woot!!" Then the "think skin" postings. Let's think about this: who experienced more animosity in his career. Robert Scoble or Bill Gates? Who experienced more press coverage, newspaper stories, etc. criticizing him and what he was doing? Call me crazy, but I’m going with Gates. I know that now after 25 years or whatever, Gates is moving on, but at no time in the last 25 years did Gates make any “I’m so disillusioned, I’m taking a break from Microsoft!” speeches. Not even after he got pied in the freaking face! If you want to be in the public eye, if you want a gazillion Facebook friends, if you really want to make a difference and change the world, you need a thick skin. Tony, if you’re running a pool, I’ve got $5 on the day after Labor Day. ; )

He puts himself out there, with all the wackyness –”There are 6 Billion people in the world and 5.8 Billion of them are my friends in Facebook. Woot!!”

Then the “think skin” postings. Let’s think about this: who experienced more animosity in his career. Robert Scoble or Bill Gates? Who experienced more press coverage, newspaper stories, etc. criticizing him and what he was doing? Call me crazy, but I’m going with Gates.

I know that now after 25 years or whatever, Gates is moving on, but at no time in the last 25 years did Gates make any “I’m so disillusioned, I’m taking a break from Microsoft!” speeches. Not even after he got pied in the freaking face!

If you want to be in the public eye, if you want a gazillion Facebook friends, if you really want to make a difference and change the world, you need a thick skin.

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