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10 things Twitter users should not do
The best way to use Twitter is to text "off" to 40404, the service's SMS shortcut number. But failing that, as more and more of us seem to do, here's a list of 10 things Twitter users should not do, inspired by a set of tips at SheGeeks.net. Mostly, since annoying Twitter users are easy to ignore, these rules are for your own safety and sanity. Ignore them at your peril. More »
Robert Scoble redesign draws Michael Arrington's ire
Robert Scoble, the man who makes boring videos about tech companies, but only the ones you don't care about, convinced Fast Company to redesign his blog, and it's now practically tasteful. But the giant ad from longtime sponsor Seagate prompted TechCrunch's Michael Arrington to throw Scoble's argument against ads on blogs back at him. [Scobleizer]
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Oh, Jesus, I didn't want to see that picture again
Ustream.tv business-development associate Mazyar Kazerooni will do anything to get ahead — including, it seems, a little asphyxiation at the ubiquitous hands of Fast Company egoblogger Robert Scoble. Since this is a caption contest (the winning caption becomes the post's new title) you might like to know that yes, Kazerooni is under 18. Just like another one of Scoble's friends, Jessica Mah. The winner of Friday's contest: Leah Culver with "While now able to afford real women engineers, Google engineers are still embarrassed by their inflatable booth."
Robert Scoble reruns now airing on PodTech
What, you didn't catch all 55 minutes of Robert Scoble discussing Adobe's launch of CS3 last year? Now struggling startup PodTech is posting "Classic Scoble" clips so you can not watch them all over again. [PodTech]
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Jason Calacanis on bulldogs and steak knives -- the two-minute version
Crack videoblogger Robert Scoble heads to Mahalo to interview bulldog entrepreneur and blog blowhard Jason Calacanis. Scoble rolls 24 interminable minutes of virtual tape as Calacanis talks about the math of buying monitors and comfy chairs and how the backend of Mahalo works. Forget that. We trimmed the video down to the most important bits: bulldogs and Glengarry Glen Ross-inspired steak knives.
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How to be a public figure the Hollywood way
Mark Zuckerberg dodged a bullet. His mug got featured on TMZ next to a picture of his secret mistress, and luckily she happened to be his actual girlfriend. Michael Arrington kicks Valleywag out of a party, giving our party report far more attention than it probably deserved. And Robert Scoble strikes a Roman Polanski-esque pose with an underage tech-starlet in his lap. As a captain of online industry, a hack covering the beat and a publicity-hungry B-lister, all three share one thing in common — they want the good stuff that comes with being public figures (free publicity, adoring fans, access to wealth) without the bad (salacious press, limited privacy and expensive hangers-on). The world, of course, doesn't work that way. So here's eight tips from the entertainment industry that might help them navigate the nascent perils of Internet fame. More »
5:00 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Jackson West
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Latest by raincoaster: @Scobleizer: Owen's paid well to keep those offline. more »
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Robert Scoble plays dirty uncle in Amsterdam
A tipster writes in to tell us he was a little skeeved out by Fast Company TV videoblogger Robert Scoble. The offense? Manhandling the ladies at the NextWeb conference in Amsterdam two weeks ago.Recently in Amsterdam Scoble brought great embarrassment to the conference organization by not keeping his hands to himself. Every woman that had her picture taken with him was squeezed against him with his hands going everywhere.All the photos on Flickr have judiciously been set to private, but our tipster managed to smuggle some of their own. Scoble nauseating even the abnormally permissive Dutch by cuddling teenaged startup hopeful Jessica Mah after the jump. More »
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"Unmitigated horror" sounds about right to me
Craig's List founder Craig Newmark is in Israel for a conference and his roomate is Robert Scoble. What happens when you room with the Scobleizer? He convinces you to sign up for Twitter. [Twitter]
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Robert Scoble, world's most annoying videoblogger, may not even be human
The most compelling thing about Battlestar Galactica's Cylons is that some don't know they are biomechanical creations, not human beings. That makes them the perfect metaphor for sweetly unbearable videoblogger Robert Scoble, says TV by the Numbers. Scoble, a microcelebrity in the Silicon Valley for his hyperactive social networking, subscribes to an inhuman number of Twitter users — 19,684, to be precise. The obvious conclusion: He's gathering data about humanity in preparation for some nefarious scheme beyond our understanding. We have met our overlords, and they are armed with videocameras. (Photomontage by Richard Blakeley)
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Jason Calacanis's Twitterholic ban proves not to be a joke
Once the top bulldog, Jason Calacanis had climbed back to No. 2 on Twitterholic, outranked only by Barack Obama — only to be struck from the ranks. Twitterholic is a favored popularity index among The 250 and their many spam-loving followers. The reason for the booting? An April Fools' stunt which was never reversed, putting Robert Scoble back in second, and first in the key chubby, aging white-man demo — and giving us one more reason to hate April Fools' Day.
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Wine guy Gary Vaynerchuk thinks tech is like hip hop
Gary Vaynerchuk, host of WineLibraryTV, thinks the tech world of 2008 has a lot of similarities to the hip-hop world of 1985. I'm not sure if his comparison of Robert Scoble to Russell Simmons is quite right, but he does make an interesting point: "This is the National Anthem in a 18-inning baseball game." As today's tech-savvy tweens and teenagers grow up, tech and new ways to communicate will be embraced more and more by the mainstream. Just as SMS messaging, social networks and video sharing have exploded in recent years, there will be new technologies that we haven't thought up yet. Will Scoble be at the forefront? I doubt it. Will the live, mobile video broadcasts that Scoble is boring us with become much more mainstream? Absolutely — and just like Google figured out search, someone will figure out how to make money from it. Have a look at Vaynerchuk's video after the jump. More »
we read twitter so you don't have to
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If you're one of Scoble's 5,000 Facebook friends, you need to read this
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Cashmore and Scoble on tabloids and new media
Robert Scoble and Mashable's Pete Cashmore sat down to discuss tabloid and traditional journalism in old media and new. Scoble: "Yellow journalism wasn't invented in the last ten years... College students... want to read Perez Hilton, they don't want to read about the war in Iraq... This has been a fight in newsrooms for years." Even better? We find at the end that Cashmore's most read feed in his Google Reader is Valleywag. The crush is mutual!
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Robert Scoble, in what we are 100 percent sure is not an April Fools' Joke, finally admits that he loves Valleywag. [Twitter]
He loves us! He really loves us!
Robert Scoble, in what we are 100 percent sure is not an April Fools' Joke, finally admits that he loves Valleywag. [Twitter]
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Robert Scoble went on a tear yesterday, posting more than 200 Twitter messages within the span of a few hours. The logorrheic explosion came as he had a "group conversation" with his Twitter followers. Not all were impressed. "Well, I've tormented Twitter enough today. About 200 people have unfollowed." Don't worry, Bobby. I'm sticking around — for now, anyway. Though I'm starting to think that woman at Whole Foods who found Twitter "boring" might have been right. See an excerpt of Scoble's Twitters below, and then share your opinion in our poll.
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Scoble text-message rampage leaves Twitter users numb
Robert Scoble went on a tear yesterday, posting more than 200 Twitter messages within the span of a few hours. The logorrheic explosion came as he had a "group conversation" with his Twitter followers. Not all were impressed. "Well, I've tormented Twitter enough today. About 200 people have unfollowed." Don't worry, Bobby. I'm sticking around — for now, anyway. Though I'm starting to think that woman at Whole Foods who found Twitter "boring" might have been right. See an excerpt of Scoble's Twitters below, and then share your opinion in our poll.
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