The Scoble Curse

Brilliant analysis via the very funny Christopher Coulter on Bobby’s blog.

The Scoble Curse remains rock solid, amazingly so…talks up Facebook, then Beacon and then Plaxo ScrapeGate. Talks up Apple, then Leopardgate and broken MacBookgate. Talks up Longhorn then delayed Vistagate. Talks up Seagate then Free Agentgate. Talks up Xbox 360, then billion-dollar recall-gate. Talks up Tablets SPOT, UMPC-Origami, and then zilchgate. Talks up HD-DVD, and then scandalgate. Talks up Second Life, and wastelandgate. Talks up Kindle, and kindle firewoodgate.

If I was a Marketer, based on the historical track record, once the belly-laugh Scoble comes at you with the shaky cams, offering free media coverage, don’t bite, as it’s not ‘free’, not in any sense of the word, it will cost you dearly in terms of the ‘curse’.

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Posted in 1938 Media, Cursed, Dopes, Resistance Is Futile, Robert Scoble
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  1. Livia said on January 5th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Brilliant. Never really thought about that.

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  2. Chris Parandian said on January 5th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    Thanks for the 411. Scoble’s antics have been quite disappointing…

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  3. Mark Forman said on January 5th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    Dayum-you saying that Scoble is one of the Kennedy’s?? Who knew??

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  4. John Reynolds said on January 6th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Christopher Coulter was fired from Podtech in 1 month. Loser wanks the whole lot of them. Loren ask Scoble about Christopher Coulter Heh.

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  5. Don Jones said on January 6th, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    Loren,

    Another curse - Arrington as an investor. You should be satisfied he’s giving you so much play on TC, but don’t let him invest in you, you’ll end up in the deadpool fast…

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  6. Mark Evans said on January 7th, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Kind of like appearing on the front cover of Sports Illustrated!

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  7. Christopher Coulter said on April 7th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    Old old follow-up but I have to correct John’s defamation. I was there well well longer than a month, and as as for the details of why I am no longer at Podtech, well the 100+ hour work weeks might of had something to do with it, I was dead, lack of sleep and half seeing things. Plus, as you well know, Podtech has been quite the leaky ship, another start-up chewing up and spitting out, Scoble himself is no longer with Podtech. Stable companies, with management not certifiably crazy, foreverhence for me.

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