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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

StevenHodson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:57:03 -0000

This reminds me of another web personality who loves to recommend software and one time recommended something to his readers which was rather quickly shown to be spreading malware. He got a lot of flack for that one - quite rightly in my mind.

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

StevenHodson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:49:08 -0000

I have long maintained that even though we are supposedly using these "free" services the fact is that as long as they use any of the content that we have generated through our investment of our time in order to create a business model where they get paid out as some point then the service isn't free.

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'.