Scobleizer - Latest Comments in “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Toby Hede — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:32:15 -0000

I made this and dedicated it to Scoble:
http://www.autotwit.com/

Key Benefits:

1. Make you wealthy
2. Improve your appearance
3. Help you to be more well-liked by your family or friends
4. Make you live longer
5. Attract members of the opposite sex
6. Update Twitter automatically

Yes, AutoTwit lets you schedule updates for Twitter ... in case you're travelling, or too busy to update yourself.

Built using the Twitter API, Rails, and Love on Sunday afternoon. Don't you just love Web 2.0?

Slightly tongue-in-cheek, but fun none the less.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Heather Flanagan — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:42:25 -0000

I like Robert because a lot of his success is because he doesn't censor or edit. It's raw and pure. Would that we all got our livelihood from being just exactly who we are. That is my goal in my life.

It's just plain good ol' fun to stir up obvious hornets' nests. Then you get to see who sees the obvious and predicatable human response and you get to see the people who are still so immersed in being reactive pawns of life rather than conscious beings of choice. It is a good perspective to have.

I like to stir up hornets' nests, too. It's a heady feeling. The challenge is using it as an opportunity to learn more about ourselves as a species. We get to see yet again how life runs us instead of us standing in our rightful place as cause in our lives.

Righteous anger/irritation feels better than guilt. Neither are taking responsibility. Both are addictions to victim and helplessness.

What was I talking about? Think I tranced out there again. Damn you, Ramtha! Shit! ;)

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

John C. Welch — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:24:31 -0000

Robert, the idea that this is just your "personal" blog is the silliest attempt at misdirection I've ever seen. This site IS your business. Your entire business model is "I get attention".

This blog is how you get attention. Being inane, no fact-checking/research, and flame-baiting is HOW you get attention, but the idea that this site is just a "little place for me to talk to a few people" is almost insulting in its blatant manipulation of the truth.

You're not that smooth dude. Really.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Corinne — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:20:10 -0000

Heather -- that's the best comment I've read all morning!

Mr. Scoble -- As of today, I've been blogging in some way or form for the last seven years... And to be honest, well over 50% of my posts have been inane. And silly. And fluffy things that most people would just gloss over. And I really don't care. It's too much pressure to post about things other people could want to care about on a personal blog. I'm glad you have fun with your silly inane posts. It makes you a pleasure to read. It makes me remember you're just another human too. :)

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Heather Flanagan — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:16:08 -0000

This has to be my absolute favorite Scoogle post ever!!! My God!!!! I understand the **whole** thing for once. It's all psychology, which is my kind of technology; the inane, yes, inane antics of the human animal!

"My coconut."

"No, your coconut bad. Me throw your coconut away!"

"You stupid. I show you how you stupid. I show the other cave men, too! Now look here, me have 'nother, bigger coconut! And I carved your stupid face on it."

;)

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

John C. Welch — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:05:38 -0000

Oh lord, Robert's PMSing again.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Roy — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:49:28 -0000

Mr. Scoble I'm starting to get concerned. I think all the pressure of the past month is starting to catch up with you. This post is a cry for help.

Before we read about you shaving your head and getting tattoos. I suggest you see a psychiatrist soon.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

francine — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:10:10 -0000

I'll second all the positive comments. As a person who used to teach college writing back in the day, I always
banged my head against the wall to get the doublespeak and cliches out of people's prose and get them to speak in their own voices. Robert speaks in his own voice, for better or for worse, heheh, and I value that. I am on Twitter, even though I'm a little old lady with a Ph D, and I find it hilarious to find out that Scoble and Pirillo are sleeping together in the same house and twittering. It's like a slumber party, and life should have more of those. I bet Buzz Bruggeman feels the same way.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Michael — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:58:24 -0000

Hmmm, just hit delete, oops, j it only takes 10 seconds out of your day?

Dude, are things going so bad you're considering the spam business - cause it sure sounds like you're practicing for it.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Frank Roche — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:38:13 -0000

Robert, first, keep up the great work. Your blog has your voice...and just what we don't need is corp-speak drivel and over-processed, Cheez-Whiz blogging. I like the real...the (sometimes, but for good reason) inane.

It is nuts that the lurkers tend to not have their own place to write but plenty of time to rain down on the rainmakers. I'm putting the finishing touches on Troll Patrol right now...there's so much fertile ground out there with trolls. I have a pretty decent collection of material just from my personal blog, and there isn't a day that goes by when more and more little trolls climb out from under their bridges and make neg comments like that. I think shining the light on them like you've done here works wonders. Trolls don't like the light.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Mike — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:54:29 -0000

I'm with you all except for this:

"One last thought. Have you ever noticed that the most abusive commenters don’t have blogs of their own? I sure wish these readers who think they know how to do this so well would do a blog of their own so we could all learn from their greatness."

That's like people that say that those of us who never played football can never complain about the players or coaches in the NFL. You can no what you don't like without ever needing to know how it should really be done.

Keep posting what you feel like writing. I have the magic J key when it doesn't strike my fancy.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

ljuvefreya — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:25:16 -0000

Ok that's it Scoble. I'm offisially subscribing to this blog. I might print it out on huge posters and decorate downtown Oslo (thats norway, europe) with it so everyone can see. ;)

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Rachel — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:57:30 -0000

Robert, I think the weird bit was Chris replying from the same house..the world wide bit is far more normal. And yes, I have moved to New York.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Sue — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:41:32 -0000

"by some other smarter, better looking, blogger"

Better looking? I think not.

Glass+wine@6pm => ~~calm~~

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

David Dalka — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:27:50 -0000

Nice link bait, so I'll comment. :)

What are some of the best RSS readers other than Google's? I need to redo my stuff again soon, so alert functions will be a focus.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Robert Scoble — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:13:12 -0000

Robert: Maybe! :-)

Met: he hasn't written that much lately. Probably cause he's a busy guy and if his bar is six hours a post, it's hard to find that time to craft such an entry.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Robert Accettura — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:43:16 -0000

If I complain enough about your blogging, will you dedicate a post or two to me? ;-)

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Yoav — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:42:53 -0000

Hey Robert,

Stop messing with this guy. He is just baiting you. I actually loved the twitter post. And showing that you are human every once in a while is good.

If you want to get a good laugh out of this try googling DWeatherly .

You get to this site

http://www.fhkfc.org/

after going through this forum

http://forums.christianwebh...

Robert!?! What have you done to make pastors Jesse and Rose Zepeda so angry with you?

(Joke!)

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

meanguy — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:30:09 -0000

i do love bloggers blogging about blogging. never gets old. someone should write an entire book about that (oops).

ps: i contribute to two blogs in the technorati 100 (meaningless stat) and yes, commenters are generally dopes. that's why you shouldn't devote entire idiotic, emotional blog posts to their idiotic, emotional comments.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Aaron Brazell — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:26:36 -0000

I never liked you. Now I don't mind you. Through all that I subscribed. Weird how that works. Though this J key is awful worn. :-)

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

zabuni — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:21:08 -0000

I can see both sides of the argument. With so much inane crap in this world, why spend any more time on it than you need to? There are many blogs in the sea.

But, sometimes it is annoying to take the effort to pick the good content of of the bad on someone's blog. It's not so much "you're inane and I am unsubscribing" as "you post decent material sometimes, but the signal to noise ratio is off". If BoingBoing had comments, people would be posting the same things after every subway anagram. If all you posted was livejournal worthy prose about what you ate for lunch, no one would complain about you being inane, simple because no one would have subscribed in the first place. Of all the things to fear from an audience, the more frightening is silence. It means the auditorium is empty.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

opit — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:09:36 -0000

Gawd, Robert, a personal blog that is read by so many tends to be in a class of its own : warts and all. The problem most bloggers have is to actually find someone to comment on what they write so it's not like dropping output into a bottomless well.
If, like me, you zip around the web quipping hither and yon, keeping track of conversations is a chore. At least Wordpress and CoComment give me a chance to get into back and forth but it's not the same as having a set locale with visitors. Political comment sites are a bit of the same shortfall : you can get something going but it's usually hit-and-miss or await developments.
But inane ( you and me both ) ? Beats boring. Remember the quips about committees - the results lack distinct flavour.
And not reading a blog ? I can't get my head through the insignificance of bothering to make that sort of announcement ( This would not be the face of one who cared ).

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

met — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:08:39 -0000

Kawasaki takes 6 hours to write a post? No wonder I haven't visited that site in 6 months. I should probably go there and read his quality posts instead of spending time on your inane ones.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Adam Caudill — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:04:31 -0000

I'll never understand why someone would complain about the content of a personal blog; if this was a business blog, it would be different. But the idea behind a *personal* blog to express yourself; regardless of mood, or popularity of an opinion, or any other factor.

It's that concept, a place where you are free to say what you like, how you like is one of the major forces that made blogging as popular as it is. If someone wants articles that look like they were pulled from a magazine, then there are plenty of commercial 'blogs' that will provide it.

I read this because it makes for an interesting incite into another world, another persons life. That's what it's all about.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

Heywood — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:02:46 -0000

well, on the bright side, you're now listed on the front page of any search for 'inane'

and when the day comes, just tell apple -- when it comes to iNane, think scoble-y

cheers,

Heywood
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