Posts with tag "Robert Scoble"

Some thoughts on curation

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Posted 1240 days ago

relevant-to-my-interests Curation is the new hot buzzword in the tech blogosphere. Some just slough it off as yet another form of aggregation. Others, depending on how the curation is done, throw around words like scrappers and content thieves.

Then you have people like Robert Scoble who – as is his wont – take it to an extreme. However in a post the other day he made some valid points that Louis Gray discussed in a post earlier today.

Robert Scoble, a peer, and fellow geek and curator, said that he will be skipping out on Wednesday’s news, and watching the news ink feeding frenzy as it seeps through our computer screens. His goal won’t be necessarily to report on the news, which will be common knowledge as soon as he starts typing, but to find the best interpretations of the news from his favorite sources. He publicly will be doing something we all must learn to do – separating the news discovery artists from the news spin artists. With tools like Twitter and other networks making it ever easier to hit the publish button, our ability to screen, filter and decide what information is good for us is going to be increasingly tested.

This is something that I have been thinking about off and on for the past little while. It is an idea that I think has a lot of merit and could open up a whole new area for bloggers to expand into.

I’m not talking about the Dredge Report style of curation. Nor am I talking about the hybrid style of Techmeme with their algorithm and biased human editors.

What I do think we could see is more human curation of news, information and ideas done in ways that can provide real value. Especially as people are finding they have less and less time to devote to their own gathering and reading of news and information.

Personal news desks.

I get the sense that a new set of interesting doors could be opening up.

Do you think that we might be on the brink of a new way of finding and processing our daily news fixes?

Relax, I come to praise Scoble not beat up on him

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Posted 1241 days ago

scoble I know I sometimes give Robert Scoble a really hard time. It’s not because I don’t like or respect him.

On the contrary.

I do like the man and I have a lot of respect for him. It’s just sometimes I think he opens his mouth before engaging his non-fanboi brain.

I also really miss his blog posts that he use to write before mainlining the Twitter and real-time kool-aid.

So it was really nice to see a post of his pop up last night that was something more than a recounting of his infatuation with Twitter lists and how they are going to change the world. Granted the post does have some of that in it but if you suffer through that punishment there is some good stuff in the post.

While he has mentioned the idea of curation before in this post he gives some solid food for thought.

But, look at curation. I know all of the tech journalists and have been studying them for years. That’s how I made the best Twitter list of 500 of the best tech journalists. I also know the venture capitalists and have a list of 433 of them. I also know 500 company founders and have a list of them. I also know 339 tech company executives and have a list of them. I also know 500 iPhone developers and influentials and have a list of them. Finally, I have a list of 493 of the world’s top tech news brands, from CNET to Techcrunch, and have a list of them.

Add to that over on Facebook I have a list of the world’s top executives, including those who run Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and lots of other companies and I’ll be able to call and do reporting from my seat.

I can watch all of these lists in real time and put patterns and reports together from across the industry. To me that’s more valuable than even just watching the keynote live.

I guess it helps that this is something I have been thinking about a lot as well.

Curation. It could be a whole new and valuable style of blogging if done right.

Thanks Robert. Now if we could just see more of this type of post from you.

Hate to pop your so cool Apple tablet hot air bubble but …

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Posted 1263 days ago

tablet I’ve pretty much tried to stay out of this whole Apple fanboy daisy-chain lovefest over the possibility of some super duper tablet being announced this month.

Except Robert Scoble just had to go and add his two cents worth about the glory that will soon be in our shaking hands (emphasis is mine).

But someone has already made quite a few of the other arguments I’d make about Joe’s post. That someone is MG Siegler who wrote at Techcrunch tonight “the World Doesn’t Need Someone Telling Us What We Don’t Need In Tech.” MG Siegler ripped Joe a good one, and I agree with MG that Apple is a great company because they are willing to take risks, even some that don’t seem to work out very well.

Well I hate to be the burst everyone’s Apple loving bubbles but the tablet – or slate – or anything you want to call it – isn’t anything new. Nor is Apple the first one to walk down this road – regardless of Scoble’s fandom.

Let’s step back in time shall we.

2001.

Microsoft.

Tablet computer.

The term Tablet PC was made popular in a product announced in 2001 by Microsoft, and defined by Microsoft to be a pen-enabled computer conforming to hardware specifications devised by Microsoft and running a licensed copy of the “Windows XP Tablet PC Edition” operating system or a derivative thereof.

Oh and it’s not just Microsoft, as Linux has been running on tablet computers that don’t exist – well at least not before Apple says they do.

You might want to take that up with companies like Toshiba, Acer. Lenovo and HP.

But then we all know that Scoble thinks that Microsoft is old and decrepit.

Just too bad we’ve forgotten to give credit where credit is due – not everything in our tech world exists because Apple says so.

CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Hey Microsoft, We’re not Scoble but our opinions count too

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Posted 1304 days ago

cbn1-podpost Tonight’s show with Sean; who has his priorities all straight, and myself starts out with both of us shaking our head in bewilderment of Robert Scoble’s latest post about how he was wrong concerning the importance of full text RSS feeds. His reason is that full text is so 2006 and now Twitter has become the RSS feed reader of choice.

Ya. Okay. His choice but that doesn’t make it so for everyone else not does it invalidate the importance of full text feeds.

As for our second subject … well you just had to know that neither of us could pass up on the whole Microsoft bribing News Corp to de-list from Google. It’s a far ranging discussion that looks at the idea from all sides and has some suggestions for Microsoft concerning the ridiculousness of the idea.

Posts referred in the show.

I Hate You, Electricity – Sean P. Aune
I was wrong about full-text feeds – Robert Scoble
Microsoft once more proves you can indeed buy stupidity – The Inquisitr

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CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Twitter Lists, swing and a miss – It’s all now a game

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Posted 1325 days ago

Hey have you heard yet? Twitter has lists and everyone is falling all over themselves gushy how great they are. Even Robert Scoble has re-ignited his love affair with the digerati darling. It’s so bad that Robert wrote a post last night proclaiming that Friendfeed had now been officially supplanted by the power of Twitter.

Well of course your host for tonight’s show, Sean and myself, aren’t so enamored with the whole idea. In the show we discussion Robert’s (re-)conversion to a Twitter evangelist, how in one fell swoop Mashable turned the whole thing into a game, and how Lists will be the new digerati A-List.

Here are Robert’s posts proclaim the power of Twitter and its Lists starting with his post about Friendfeed losing in the long run.

The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor) – Robert Scoble
Louis Gray’s “five stages of early adopterism” chart – Robert Scoble
Techmeme vs. Twitter lists? (UPDATE: vs. TechCrunch list) – Robert Scoble

Enjoy the show.

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Scoble’s in real trouble now for dissing Friendfeed

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Posted 1325 days ago

Don’t make the same mistake folks or you to could have the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse on your ass.

horsemen

Please take Scoble’s stopwatch away

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Posted 1327 days ago

1 minute and 16 seconds for Google Reader to start up and load 1,500 friends is too long.

Well holy shit, a minute (don’t forget the sixteen seconds) for a web application to load in your browser and at the same time load all the multitude of feed data that comes along with having 1,500 friends is too long. Damn so I guess that means that Google Reader really is a piece of utter crap and that we should all ditch it and bow to the almighty Twitter.

Ya.

Okay.

Sure.

Wait a second though folks, lets get something straight here before we go off half cocked and do something stupid.

CobWEBs Daily Edition podcast: Hey Robert it’s not all just about you – kthxbai

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Posted 1329 days ago

cbn1-podpost Once again Mark takes on a shopping tour of Walmart (did that sponsorship come through Mark?) while doing tonight’s show with Sean. In the crosshairs of the show is the kerfuffle created today by Robert Scoble where he tells the world that Google Reader is no longer his eye to the tech world.

No folks, it has been supplanted but the incredible Twitter in all its 140 character glory especially now that it has given us the power of Lists. As Robert points out the immediacy of Twitter is the killer over an application that takes a whole minute t o load. Mind you I think we’d want to puke a little bit to if we were trying to load up 10,000 people posts to read.

Referenced Posts in the show:

Why I don’t use Google Reader anymore – Robert Scoble
Why I Continue to Use Google Reader – SiliconAngle

Enjoy the show

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