{"id":943,"date":"2003-02-17T17:18:53","date_gmt":"2003-02-18T09:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/18\/scoblemania\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:26:54","slug":"scoblemania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/17\/scoblemania\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoblemania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8962,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ranchero.com\\\/netnewswire&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210115155306\\\/https:\\\/\\\/ranchero.com\\\/netnewswire\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 15:54:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 00:53:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 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After going through my &#8216;Technology&#8217; grouping in <a href=\"http:\/\/ranchero.com\/netnewswire\/\" title=\"Ranchero.com: NetNewsWire\">NetNewsWire<\/a>, which includes RSS feeds for 34 different weblogs and news sites, every link that I called up as &#8216;probably worth babbling about&#8217; was from <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/\" title=\"The Scobelizer Weblog\">Robert Scoble<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think I want his job. This has nothing to do with what his job actually is (he works at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nec.com\/\" title=\"NEC Global Gateway\">NEC<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t know anything other than that), it&#8217;s just that he&#8217;s easily one of the most prolific bloggers I read, to a point that I assume his job must be incredibly low-stress and low-responsibility, since it obviously doesn&#8217;t interfere with his blogging time. ;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in no particular order&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nslog.com\/archives\/000261.php\" title=\"NSLog(); Outperforming Current Intel Stuff\">Erik Barzeski<\/a> calls Scoble a &#8216;Microsoft Slut&#8217;. Scoble <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2003\/02\/16.html#a2262\" title=\"Erik J. Barzeski...\">returns the jab<\/a>. Me, I feel like I&#8217;m whoring myself out every time I use a Windows PC instead of my Mac. No real point to any of this, except for the amusement factor.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Scoble: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2003\/02\/16.html#a2265\" title=\"Listen, when I was at Microsoft last week...\">Is there any way to stop Microsoft?<\/a> I think the answer is getting clear: no.&#8221; Kind of a scary statement, but (as befits a &#8216;MS Slut&#8217; &#91;now there&#8217;s a product name we need to see&#8230;&#93;) he keeps mentioning all the cool stuff he saw that he can&#8217;t talk about, so I suppose it&#8217;s a definite possibility. Of course, he also admits that he&#8217;s &#8220;&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2003\/02\/15.html#a2247\" title=\"Dave Stutz leaves Microsoft...\">too drunk with the Microsoft wine<\/a> to really be objective,&#8221; and he even occasionally says some good things about Apple&#8217;s future too, so I&#8217;ll cut him a break.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Scoble: &#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t be the first time that Microsoft does something innovative <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2003\/02\/15.html#a2246\" title=\"Hmmm, I note that...\">by acquiring another company<\/a>. Oh, where do you think FrontPage, Hotmail, PowerPoint, Excel, Internet Explorer, DOS, etc came from?&#8221; Where&#8217;s the innovation in acquiring another company? All of these were innovations <em>before<\/em> Microsoft got their hands on them &#8212; all Microsoft did was recognize a good thing and assimilate it (though I&#8217;d personally never put FrontPage in a &#8220;good thing&#8221; category, there are a depressingly high number of people who use it, so it must be making MS some amount of money, and this is beside-the-point rambling anyway). I&#8217;m willing to accept the argument that Microsoft has actually innovated in the past, and may do so again in the future (though I&#8217;m hard pressed to come up with any examples), but I don&#8217;t think that &#8216;innovation&#8217; and &#8216;acquisition&#8217; are compatible.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Scoble <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2003\/02\/17.html#a2293\" title=\"Want to keep up on Microsoft?\">recommends<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchingmicrosoftlikeahawk.com\/\" title=\"Watching Microsoft Like a Hawk\">Watching Microsoft Like A Hawk<\/a> as a good site for MS info, news, and scuttlebutt. Looks like it is. Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t find an RSS feed, so I&#8217;ll probably forget to check up on them. Bummer.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#8220;Apple has some cool stuff coming this year to be sure &#8212; including some desktop machines that are <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2003\/02\/17.html#a2298\" title=\"Brian Jepson's talking...\">outperforming current Intel stuff<\/a>.&#8221; Damn, but I wish I could see some of the stuff that he&#8217;s seen. Now I just have to wait and see if Apple will introduce what he&#8217;s hinting at before or (more likely) just <em>after<\/em> I finally am able to plunk down money on a new machine.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes. 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