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A new job and a job offer

Congratulations Robert Scoble on finally getting some press!

Scoble wants his old job back, at Google

Bloggorrhea: Scoble's cancer

• Bigtime blogging couple Robert and Maryam Scoble presented "10 Ways to a Killer Blog" this weekend. One rule Robert learned: If you call HP's chairwoman "a cancer," then find out she has cancer, it's wise to apologize. [Xark]
• PR firm Edelman's chief apologizes too, for being less than honest about Wal-Mart paying two bloggers to act like unbiased fans of the company. (BusinessWeek explains here.) [Edelman's apology]
• The Online Marketing Blog interviews Gnomedex conference organizer and tech pundit Chris Pirillo, ten-time winner of "weirdest dude on the Internet," last seen standing naked on a cruise ship. [Online Marketing Blog]

Does Scoble even own a suit?

Loose Wires: One-time correspondent wanted

• There's no way I'm touching this "WebGuild Conference" on October 19, but I can get a press pass if a reader volunteers to ride into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of Hell. In return for the press pass, the correspondent will provide live IM commentary of speeches by Google VP Marissa Mayer, MarketWatch reporter Bambi Francisco, and anyone whose speech is especially interesting (or mockable). E-mail tips@valleywag.com if you're interested. [WebGuild]
• The stench of Web 2.0 reaches the nostils of the Spaniards, report foreign visitors interviewed by reporter Tom Foremski. [ZDNet]
• Can't decide which scene this video interview (in which a WebProNews journo interviews podcasting startup PodTech's most public employee, blogger Robert Scoble) reminds me of: either the morning show hosts reporting from Cloud Nine on "Battlestar Galactica" as if the world hadn't blown up, or the documentarists from the crash-landed spaceship in "The Hitchhiker's Guide from the Galaxy" fatuously filming each other. [WebProNews]
• Hey, good point, why is infamous DeCSS creator "DVD Jon" hacking Apple's Fairplay music-protection software if he works for them? [TechSmec]
• AOL's "Blogging Stocks" catches the underreported exit of eBay's Developer Program Director. [Blogging Stocks]

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Loose Wires: Current Thong

• Phone fraud offender Hewlett-Packard takes another giant leap towards becoming even more of the class bully, this time with news that they actually conducted feasibility studies to figure out how to plant spies in news bureaus. To be continued tomorrow. Don't worry, by then we'll find out the government was involved in the conspiracy. [NY Times]
• Ex-Rocketboomer Amanda Congdon finds a new gig touring America. This time around the vlogger is honing her chops on the road to L.A. We just hope blogger Robert Scoble stops propositioning her. [Scobleizer]
• The Baltimore Sun got tired of writing about the ethics involved in snitching and gang violence so now they just interview bloggers like Sean Bonner of the Metroblogging network. We know how they feel. [Baltimore Sun]
• Google Co-Founder Larry Page and I have something in common. Unfortunately for me it isn't making wads of cash or being business-minded, but an affiliation with the University of Michigan, where Google just opened up a new AdWords office. [Michigan Daily]
• Al Gore's pet project Current TV finally launches their own public portal with Yahoo. That's an inconvenient truth for Google, which has Gore on its board and plays content-maker to Google Current, a semi-hourly show based on Google searches like thong girl. [Current TV]

Blogger breakdown: Spot Scoble at Google

• Ex-Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble may miss out on Burning Man, but he'll have fun visiting the Googleplex today with Googler Matt Cutts. Insert cruel "don't empty the snack room" line here, and send phonecam pics of Scoble to tips@valleywag.com. [Matt Cutts, photo by ~C4Chaos]
• Jason Calacanis tells everyone in the Internet industry, blog or die. Somewhere, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is pumping his fist and shouting "Yessss!" [Calacanis.com]
• RSS pioneer Dave Winer says an army of unnamed people are pissed at publisher Tim O'Reilly. (And it's totally not Winer's bitter recrimination for not getting an invite to last weekend's exclusive "Friends of O'Reilly" Camp, nor the two men's ongoing battle since 2000.) [Scripting.com]

Nerdspotting: Scoble stalks couple

Remainders: YouTube still doomed

• Tech blog GigaOM explains why Fox Interactive won't buy YouTube. For why no one else will, see this Valleywag list. [GigaOM]
• Viacom doesn't need YouTube either, thanks to a sweet distribution deal they just cut with Google Video. With this deal, other sites can embed shows from MTV, Comedy Central, and such; the embedded vids carry ads, and Viacom and Google split the revenue. In other words, everything New Media is Old Media again. [International Herald Tribune]
• Google is paying $900 million to Fox Interactive if all goes right with its plan to power the search on several Fox sites — most importantly, MySpace. [Battelle's Search Blog]
• The San Jose Mercury News discovers, two months after the fact, that blogger Robert Scoble left Microsoft. Call it the "Late Edition." [Mercury News]
• Did BusinessWeek backpedal by editing the print version of its "Digg is worth $200 million" story after bloggers tore apart the online version? Or did the magazine always plan tell online readers one thing and print readers another? [Techdirt]
• Our big sister Gawker, exploiting the convergence of media and tech to totally step on our turf, reports that tech-media vet Alan Patricof dumped $5 million on the Huffington Post. (Disclosure: Founder Arianna Huffington is Gawker publisher Nick Denton's honorary girlfriend, judging by their party photos. I have a writer's account at the Huffington Post that I never bothered using. Patricof writes for the Huffington Post. One of Patricof's older investments was a startup run by Michael Wolff, who called Patricoff a crank in his book Burn Rate.) [Gawker 1, Gawker 2]

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