Sick of Scoble

>ninjagardgen: I can't even read Channel 9 anymore without seeing him on a thread trashing stuff that isn't made by Microsoft

Huh? You obviously haven't read my blog. I say nice things about Google, Apple, Yahoo, and others all the time. You do note that a lot of the things I hype up on my blog are also running on Linux servers, right?

>nanite: maybe he should stop jumping all over google and firefox whenever they make a mistake.

I was one of the first to come out and say I like Firefox and use it. Tell me, do employees of Coca Cola come and say they like Pepsi products? Doing this is very dangerous in corporate America. Do you even have a job?

>Manip: However I do not at all like what he does, blogging is lame, it is like journalism without any real legal or moral incentive to make sure it is accurate.

Manip, that demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of blogging. If you aren't accurate you get ragged on and your reputation suffers. Oh, and people start threads in Channel 9 like this one.

>Beer28: I think Scoble's at microsoft for the money.

Beer: I've turned down several jobs this past year for more money (at least one of them for a LOT more money). If what you said were true, I would have left. I make less than $100,000 a year and a good chunk of that goes to my ex-wife in alimony and child-support payments. This isn't particularly lucrative, particularly when you're working for (and around) billionaires.

>irascian: Scoble has been extremely critical of certain Microsoft decisions and has continually hyped non-Microsoft products.

Thank you for noticing! I might not be out there like Mini-Microsoft, but I'm the only Microsoft employee I know of that has been quoted in Time Magazine saying I'd split up the company if it were up to me.

>ninjagarden: Look at his rant a couple of months ago against BoingBoing where he accused them of not correcting a blog entry that turned out to be wrong (which Scoble never does!) even though they had an update for the story on their main page! 

Ninja: you have demonstrated again that you do not actually read my blog. I regularly say I'm wrong and correct my posts.

>Jeremy W: He doesn't make that much money. He drives a Focus. He dresses in jeans and T shirts more than half the time.

Yup. Covered above.

>Jorgie: As for the “style” of the videos, there is a lot more then “style” that makes them different from a normal marketing video.

Thanks for noticing. My style pisses off a lot of "professional marketers" because they think everything should be slick and produced and not conversational. Many companies don't want to hear from their customers (or talk with them). Even many companies in our industry.

>Koorb: I don't read his blog because he doesn't post anything interesting or insightful, I usually find it to be regurgitated opinions or viewpoints, but since there are so many blogs out on the internet I question the sanity of anybody who reads a blog they don't like.

Hmmm, well, I don't know what blog you're reading, but it doesn't sound like mine. But, you're absolutely right. There's an unsubscribe button on every RSS aggregator I've seen. It's there for a reason.

>Beer28: I just get the impression that it's merely his job and that he's not really into microsoft.

Beer, um, don't know what gave you that impression. Does everyone need to be a corporate syncophant to be seen as "into his company?" I work 90 hour weeks. I don't have to. No one is asking me to. My blog is done at nights and on weekends. I'm answering your post here at 1:03 a.m. on Sunday morning. Is that the behavior of someone who isn't into the industry and company he works for?

>erik_: Btw. can you list those threads where he responds so heavily anti-firefox? Because I am unable to find them.

Erik, Firefox advocates are just like Macintosh advocates. If you say ANYTHING against those products you will be called the worst of names. It comes with the territory. They don't give you credit for the nice things I've said about Firefox.

>Orbit86: I'm sure Scoble doesn't even care loll

Orbit: I do care about how people view me. It's a weakness of mine, actually. But, imagine you're at a party and people are saying what a jerk you are over at the next table. Tell me you wouldn't care. That said, I wrote the Corporate Weblog Manifesto before I came to Microsoft and one of the rules I put in there is "have a thick skin." It's one of the harder rules to follow.

>Minh: Are you serious? That's him? I happen to read the ninja guy's blog too.

It's not Dave Winer. Sorry.

>rjdohnert: I think some of their actions have gone the way of stupid lately.

RJ: if I agree with you will Beer think that I'm really not into Microsoft? See, how do you change a company? Is it by pretending everything is perfect? Or is it by admitting things are messed up and working to fix them?

Yes, I haven't been out there enough lately pushing the boundaries, but come on, there are many companies in our industry where I would have already gotten fired for doing what I do.