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Re: TUAW wins the "phrase of the day" award

scottoraw — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:27:26 -0000

Thanks, Ian. Due to an involuntary burst of laughter, I've just spat a large mouthful of noodles over my laptop !

Re: Scoble – a one channel radio station of white noise

scottoraw — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:46:42 -0000

woah, I must have missed that one, Paul (thankfully). It's appalling that nonsense of this nature gates disseminated by someone who claims to act as a filter - where's the filtering here? And while we're at it, there should be a retraction from Robert that either a) he was taken in by this or b) he was in on the act - which if it is the latter, is, to my mind, utterly reprehensible.

Re: Scoble – a one channel radio station of white noise

scottoraw — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:45:25 -0000

Hi Steve,

A fine, well judged analysis. Robert said something to me via Twitter recently regarding Twitter's recent problems. I suggested that that, collectively, we should consider taking it easy on Twitter as it is, after all is said and done, a free service. Robert replied that it it wasn't, in fact, a free service as he paid for it in his attention. As Robert put it; "My time isn't free. Is yours?"

It struck me as a curious way of looking at things, but not an approach that I would necessarily dismiss out of hand. However, if this is a model of "commerce" that he finds validity in then I think it's something Robert should do well to remember i.e. we are all paying for Robert by OUR attention and we expect a decent ROI with less supercilious 'downtime'.