I’m Passionate In Thinking That Robert Scoble Is Fat, Stupid, And Overall An Idiot In Every Possible Way
- Posted on: Aug. 28, 2008
- 44 Comments
If you are a business owner and want to fail listen to Robert Scoble. Early adopters mean nothing to your business. You want paying customers, not passionate dopes like Bobby. Seriously this dope is really bad for the industry.
Posted in 1938 Media, Dopes, Robert Scoble44 comments
I agree, but who cares if he’s fat?
ReplyI know he hates it thats all. No offense to other fat people.
ReplyHaha
ReplySimple math.
Early adopter passionates=echo chamber=portion of a percent of possible customers.
Everyone else=real people that spend=99.xx percent of possible customers
Venture capital=millions
Who do real businesses want to tap to make back the investment?
it doesn’t really matter as the so called passionates have already moved on by the time the venture capital check has been deposited.
The problem with Scoble,and the others, is they have no idea about how business really works. To them, tech is the destination, not the path. Real biz sees all this for what it is, just another set of tools to help the bottom line.
Some of these guys would not know a bottom line if slapped with it.
As for Scoble, just how out of it, real world wise, is he? That stunt he pulled with Facebook and plaxo could have landed him in jail if he tried that crap with a real world company. Luckily for him, Zuckerberg is just as naive in real world practices as he is.
ReplyYou are so right, man!!! Bless you heart for speaking the truth.
ReplyI have to agree. If I see one more Quik vid of scoble talking about how great “tool x” is I’ll quit the internet. You know he just drops it and moves on to the next one.
What about 4 eyes??…You forgot to call him 4 eyes.
ReplyI stopped listening to Robert Scoble lot of time ago. He has no clue sometimes on what he says or vision of the future. Good would be listen to him and do the opposite. Anyway I’m happy to see the old Loren back in action…
ReplyFucking hilarious, dude!
Replywhat no puppet? I like the little people…
ReplyScobleizer Verbal Slam Count (SVSC)
Idiot: 7
Moron: 5
Stupid: 2
Buffoon: 1
Dumbass: 1
Retard: 1
All in 2:49. A new 1938Media world record.
ReplyExcellent riff.
McDonald’s, Netflix, paperless airline tickets, the iPod… These things may have gotten some great advance buzz but, ultimately, they’re ubiquitous because they’re delicious.
Scoble reminds me of the wingnut marketing consultant du jour who gets a little attention in the advertising community and then is dropped like a hot potato. In the words of the great Bugs Bunny: what a maroon.
ReplyYou go that right about the ad industry, M. Information.
ReplyAll Scoble’s videos/posts annoy me, he thinks he’s so cool. “Sitting first row at x event.”
Replyhe’s such a geek/nerd with pretty much no life and the worst is that his son his following his footsteps lol, remember that newspaper story where he was the one who got the first iPhone in a store because they stood in line/camped for something that would be available to the masses the next day?
Early Adopter? nah, LOSER
I like Scoble. He’s lovable. I say, Embrace the Chub Mr. Feldman, Embrace the Chub.
And send me a picture of your shoes so I can post them on my Chubby Mommy Running Club blog.
Love,
juliejulie
Replyaw come on. no ‘HAI WHOOR YOU??’. i was waiting for it the entire video.
ReplyIf there’s anymore talk of ‘embracing chubs’ (re: Scoble) I’m never reading this site again. Truly disturbing vision to go with my morning coffee.
Otherwise, right on!
ReplyPuuuhleeze. Why are you giving him more credit then he ( Scoble) deserves? Even negative press is good press. Ask the 70,000 at Mile High tonight who Robert Scoble is ( minus the twitter users) and I bet you don’t get a single correct answer. HE IS NOBODY.
ReplyWell Put!!
Replyman, did you nail this one on the proverbial head. sheer free-form brilliance. what’s amazing is how this echo chamber of idiots (most of whom do the daily circle check on techmeme) just bounce BS off each other, believing that it really means anything.
next you should go after the techmeme crowd. what a useless bunch of fatuous fuk*heads. go get `em, lauren. speak truth to power!!!
ReplyI could care less about scoble.
ReplyVince: come on over here and let me give you a hug.
ReplyImagine if you channeled all this hate and anger into something that actually matters. When it comes to Scoble and the Internet, take a pill.
ReplyRight on Loren!!! Couldn’t agree more with everything you’ve said. Scoble hasn’t done anything of importance in his life. He’s a poser.
Reply@Steve who said “Imagine if you channeled all this hate and anger into something that actually matters. When it comes to Scoble and the Internet, take a pill.”
Nonsense! We need someone to show the path and someone to expose all this idiots. He’s doing a service to all the other people who are not smart/experienced enough to realize what bullshit people like Scoble are peddling and how dangerous they can be to their financial well being.
Replyhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/28/mark-cuban-v-loren-feldman-cuban-wins/
Ouch?…
ReplyAh, Scoble… I recall the golden days when he’d blog about how many friends he accumulated on Facebook, as if it would make up for the lack of real-life friends.
ReplyJosh, only prob on TechCrunch was that it wasnt me who left the comment, although g-d knows what I’ve said about him here.
ReplyNice to see you again, buddy.
ReplyAntagonistic, polarizing, this is hate without a cause and it’s definitely not about Scoble. You are just seeking attention in a very very negative way.
ReplyI know Robert isn’t the brightest spark, but it’s incredible to see just how much water he does actually draw. He has a pretty substantial following by any Web 2.0 geek’s standard and his followers can’t all be half with so what’s the deal?
ReplyNEXT!!!
ReplyWith the fishing resorts and pro anglers I work with, I’ve made many mistakes by falling for the next new gadget, many of which were built for and pimped by the influential web2.0 crew. Actually, I thought I was passionate about a new tool but after some time, I realized I was not being passionate at all. I was irrational.
Anyway, the other day an angler I was interviewing over the phone asked me if I would be willing to try and get the interview published in a local fishing magazine because it would help him with acquiring sponsorship. To think that for the last couple years I’ve been learning to break the tools down to the basics (blog and camera) and now this angler has me reconsidering the use of even the most basic tools. Bottom line is if I want to help this angler with sponsorship, I’ll need to put the toys away and get the interview published.
It feel like shit knowing my passion for some ridiculous new technology could have possibly hurt someone I was trying to help. I’ve spent countless hours on new web2.0 toys I thought would be advantageous to someone and they just turned out to be shit. and frankly, some of these tools were pimped by Robert Scoble. It’s also difficult to accept that I might not be good with the tools I was so passionate about in the first place. I can’t imagine I’m the only blogger who feels this way.
The most important lesson I’ve learned is to have keep delicate sense of balance.
People who buy snake oil are desperate. I wouldn’t call them “passionates” because well, it sounds like something a snake oil salesman would say. Scoble is selling to the “irrationals.”
sorry for the ramble, I’m just so fucking passionate about it all, Loren.
YO
ReplyYo. the above post was me. Yo.
ReplyDrive Scoble crazy: Don’t read his crap, and don’t read anyone who fawns over or otherwise promotes his crap.
I avoid anything Scoble like the plague. He takes $$$ from vendors, then hawks their products, and in the end,is nothing more than a salesman for social media startups. End of story. It ain’t punditry. It’s pandering.
Let’s all remember Jim Jones had lots of followers, too. Ditto Britney Spears.
Having an audience doesn’t mean they’re smart, insightful, influential, or talented. It just means they’re good at self-promotion, and validates the fact that there is no shortage of suckers born every minute.
Reply…so much for video comments not being viable… Laughed my ass off all the way through the techcrunch comments… and yes, newer, faster, shiny…doesn’t mean it’s going to be a viable product…
ReplyWord!
You are all the same.
Robert Scoble seems a nice guy. I have never met him, don’t want to, don’t really care.
Are you, for some reason, jealous of him? Thats normally what this kind of thing comes down to.
How many twitter followers have you received since this post? Scoble-hater-baiters?
You seem like a less famous, more annoying (in a bad way), John Dvorak.
Not that I like Mark Cuban more or less than you, but he completely “owned” you. He’s got the $$$, you’ve got….?
ReplyWeren’t you supposed to get out of tech and talk about interesting stuff? Since then, the only non-tech related post is a pointless phone call about the batman movie, and some pictures of your friends, i guess.
If you think the “web20 community” is in fact a over-hyped bunch of losers, be coherent and focus on something else
ReplyI found out why RS banned me on FriendFeed..guess..
Because I made him look like the Pr ass that he is.. over that MS is buying Mahalo.com rumor..:)
I can just imagine MA getting the idea to put head through wall during RS’s first initial call about the rumor..:)
Okay I need a new PR target ..all RS jobs were PR no other area..and his ship is somewhat out of steam..
ReplyI didn’t listen to the whole thing but I guess that’s because I already know what L thinks of Robert. How could I not.
ReplyI think Robert gets good traffic because of it.
I can’t say I like all interviews Robert does, but the same is true for Lauren’s videos.
To me, Robert’s videos are interesting and Lauren’s videos are refreshing
Jesus (not calling you Jesus, Loren, just using it as an expression) did you hit this on the head. Many bloggers (nice ones too like Winer, Farber and Searls) think we give a sh*t about their personal thoughts, photos, etc. Jesus, the time many of us spend editing out all their crap just to get to a relevant opinion (and they at least have some relevant opinions about the very narrow thing–technology–they cover). At the end of the day they’re just glorified product reviewers. In hell, they’ll be placed just behind attorneys on their way to everlasting torment. Oh well.
ReplyThank you - I get so tired of trying to explain why trying to get the early adopter crowd only gets you a tiny niche of any group. Why? To get them to fulfill that fantasy that they’ll then go out and blog about how great you? Only if you have a lot of money to piss away.
Coke and Southwest Airlines have that kind of fuck you money. But I fear for the small companies that will hear social media is the magic fairy dust that will make them successful, only to get seen by a handful of people, three of which bother to tweet, “these guys so social, Neat!” shortly before they go out of business.
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