Scoble Puts His Foot In His Mouth Again

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1. steven said on September 7th, 2008 at 3:06 am

   could you be a bit more specific of what Scoble said about you? sorry, but i didn’t follow the story. most of us, your readers, ain’t glued to twitter.

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2. Boofalos said on September 7th, 2008 at 3:22 am

   I agree Steven. This one flew over my head.

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3. Boofalos said on September 7th, 2008 at 3:27 am

   Anyone know what Feldman is talking about here?

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4. Tim said on September 7th, 2008 at 3:54 am

   Robert Scoble kinda sucks.. The man has no discernable skills or talents, and his voice is irritating to listen to. Not sure how he feels qualified to trash 70 other companies when he himself contributes little to the tech community or the world for the matter. He needs to get rid of his shakey Nokia camera phone and get a job I think..

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5. Tim said on September 7th, 2008 at 3:56 am

   Note: He’s referring to Scoble’s recent blog entry, http://scobleizer.com/2008/09/06/startups-your-web-site-sucks/

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6. Anonymous said on September 7th, 2008 at 5:32 am

   I generally agree with what scoble said.. with the exception of his complaint about a site not being in English. Hello, we’re not the center of the fucking universe, and people do use technology outside a small patch of land in california.

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7. Anonymous said on September 7th, 2008 at 10:08 am

   It’s easy for Scoble to criticize the marketing of others. First of all, Scoble is being marketed to the aliens via his DNA on a rocket ship. Second, all he has to do is put on a t-shirt with his logo and stand by the expressway… billboard on legs, anyone?

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8. Andrew Eglinton said on September 7th, 2008 at 11:26 am

   Countless, redundant startup ideas are being churned out on a daily basis across the globe, driven at their core by the hope of investment funding. Many of the ideas put forward for seed money lack basic groundwork (market research, budget planning, implementation costs etc) and many of the entrepreneurs shield their real aspirations until they’re able to secrure funding.

   What events like TechCrunch 50 and DEMO bring to the table is the popularization of the VC funding process and the amateurization of entrepreneurship. It signals to us that anyone with ideas and a powerpoint presentation can be the next Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt or Larry Page, but what it omits to say though is that the road to success is about hard graft and talent.

   But mediocrity is good for those in positions of relative power. It keeps the status quo in flux and it makes raw talent harder to discern. It should come as little wonder that Mike Garity’s list contains a large percentage of duds. The point about DEMO is not one of innovation, you need capital of the Google order to employ people to innovate, DEMO is about keeping the top tier of the tech world happy, a chance for the usual suspects to renew their bonds.

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9. Josh said on September 7th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

   You have the most awesome relationship ever if you can, in bed, lay next to your significant other naked/semi-naked and video blog and have them not mind.

   Cheers to you, sir.

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10. Jim Kukral said on September 7th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    This time he’s right, sorta. The marketing on those sites suck.

    Why? Because they’re trying to get money, that’s it. VC’s don’t care about marketing. It can bolted on later in their heads.

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11. Fred Grott said on September 7th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    Like I have stated many times RS is PR not tech not business but PR..and clueless PR at that..

    My start up gets going in a few weeks from now..

    My hope is never ever to use clueless PR as in the Scoble example

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12. Dick said on September 7th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    The quality of Seesmic is really improving. Still…not my thing. The crowd over there is well, you know, gay

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13. Robert said on September 7th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    Loren,
    Can we please talk.. you know that what you are saying is effecting my knowledge base on certain topics..Not all topics..But certain topics.. Let’s resolve this ok..

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14. michael palin said on September 8th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Ah, you’re a *comedian*.

    Now I get it.

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