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Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Cy — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:11:26 -0000

PS You can read more of me at cyquick.wordpress.com

What I hate most of all about blogging is the fact that I cannot delete my early comments of 15 May in other places, or indeed any comment. I can edit my own work on my own blog. I cannot edit my own work on the blogs of other people. I do wish everybody would feel free to delete my comments. This lot for example. Is it not crying out to be deleted? Yap yap yap. Cy

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Cy — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:04:42 -0000

Further from Cy

I am surprised that #55 worked. I thought the thing was closed and the guy above (I cannot find his name above or below) had somehow wound up the thing. I do not think the discussion is any more pointless than asking the questions "Why are we here, and what is our purpose in life?".

The answer is obvious of course. We are not here to please or placate some imaginary guy in the sky, we are here as mindkind to give conscious control to what was previously an inexorable automatic natural process. We have clawed our way up from the gloopy puddle hit by lightening to being able to blog, planet-wide, the supreme accomplishment of any animal species.

Given this splendid progress, we might as well carry on and educate the six-billion strong moronic mass, eliminating the canker of theism from their harried mini-minds. Also, Eurosport should cover the entire bike race, not just the end. And Doo-Wop should be played more on the radio.

I have just found the guy's name. It is 9400 so you can see what happened. I was just not ready for the whole uncompromising edginess of the thing. Cy

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Cy — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:44:30 -0000

Cy again.

I would just like to say that I think it is better when a comment BEGINS WITH the name of the commenter, rather than, as in this set-up, the name's being at the end like a signature. No, I have changed my mind. Leave it as it is.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

9400 — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:18:25 -0000

This discussion is rather pointless and humorous, in my opinion.

Also, to contribute to the discussion, it is a blog if it has anything in it - any content, be it pictures, a post, or 50 posts. However, if there is nothing of any kind, no links, lists or otherwise, it can't be counted.

Last, WHO CARES?!?!?! This is a totally pointless discussion.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Cy — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:13:14 -0000

Further points from Cy:

1. It took me ages to discover the invaluable My Comments feature.

2. Early on, I went to cyquick.wordpress.com via the address bar on my ntl broadband home page. I added it to my Favourites. I dragged the ikon onto my desk top for a daily user test. Has this added (about 100) self hits out my 700 shown?

3. Some bloggers seem to think they OWN blogging. If they helped to invent and develop it, I guess they are right.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Cy — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:48:19 -0000

Hi Anand. I just twigged you might have been addressing me above. I did achieve more visits but have abandoned the idea of making other people's addresses go blue and be clickable. I have found my limits. I am sure you got my point that blogs are no different from diaries unkept. I ask you brill dudes to forgive us lazy but harmless plodders. Cy

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

mmadrigal — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:06:19 -0000

Sorry
Because no= Why not? I speak english very bad

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

mmadrigal — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:03:54 -0000

Much people use the Spaces to show her photos. is Photoblog a blog?. Or is videoblog a blog?. Or ?podcast.
Soon post in video will be very common. Then no longer will be blogs?
If somebody surely wrote blog on the life of a bullfigther it would very have limited readers. Would be blog?
If blog does not have any content I agree, it would not have to be counted. But he is blog is private, Because no. Many blogs are public and really have less readers than some private ones.
And thanks Scott for the idea of tatoo. I have thought about which puts “I am not blog private”

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Robert Scoble — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:18:10 -0000

Mmadrigal: OK, that's cool. I wasn't arguing that my wife's blog on Live Spaces wasn't a blog. I was arguing two things:

1) That empty spaces shouldn't count as blogs.
2) That private spaces shouldn't count as blogs because the audience is limited.

But, I'm losing on both counts, which means a bird pooping on my windshield is also a blog. Or a word written on a beach is a blog. Or a tattoo on your arm is a blog.

Sigh.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

mmadrigal — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:37:50 -0000

A car is not a car because it is parked?
A tool is always a tool independently of the use that we give him. Spaces is blogs.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Gregory Block — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:28:14 -0000

You had a really interesting comment earlier, Scoble, on the "defense" of Microsoft that seems to happen whenever you comment on them negatively.

True - they do. But isn't it fascinating that they're defending *marketing* here. It's not like someone has made a technical slight and the techies have come out of the woodwork; instead, they're literally defending something which is transparently marketing bollocks.

Why defend *a marketing campaign*? Why not spend a little more time defending the technology itself? Who cares if Microsoft Marketing turns out ot be a bunch of lying marketing people - didn't we already start from that assumption? What's gained by trying to prove that impression wrong?

The 72 million Live bloggers are as bogus as the numbers for MySpace, and we all know it. We also know that Microsoft isn't going to turn around and start using a "60 day sliding window" of any kind to count its bloggers - it's far happier just counting accounts, despite the fact that much of it is probably driven by the recent software release and a bunch of people running through it to see what it looks like.

If it was something worth defending, I'd be impressed that they were out doing so - however, it's not worth defending that statement, and I think the fact that they're all out beating bushes and trying to defend *what is clearly indefensible* is far more telling.

Smells like weakness to me.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Jason B. — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:24:33 -0000

Robert, are you stressesd out or something? Never have a seen a post like this from you. So spaces has a lot of spam, who the hell doesn't. Spam just means you are doing something right.

At any rate, a web log is what it is, a web log. Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, and if some choose to log their life through their experiences in photagraphy then so be it.

But you know what, I am a geek and I'm not a bit ashamed of using live spaces. I really don't follow a-listers. They don't tell me what to use, I make my own mind up.

But getting back to your point... Oh, who has the most bloggers.. why the hell is this important anyhow? What matters is who has the best blogging service. Live writer is damn cool and if you want to be an evanglist for the company you work for talk about the cool stuff you all are doing, stop with the live bashing.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Alijah Green — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:26:39 -0000

check out my website for this debate, I was camping this weekend when you made these post, but then again your short minded and might look over it. but prove me wrong and leave a comment.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Rob Dolin — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:00:38 -0000

Hey Scoble (and Scoble readers), have you read the blog entry from Mike Torres on the Windows Live Spaces team at: http://mike.spaces.live.com... ?

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

anand — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:04:39 -0000

another of those foolish posts...btw did you achieve your objective of getting more hits ??

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Cy — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:48:28 -0000

In Christmas 1950 I received the present of a Letts Schoolboy Diary 1951. Between 1 and 8 January I remembered to make an entry thrice. The news I wrote was either NO PUD or the type of pudding we had. (It might be rice, sago, apple suet pudding with custard, or whatever. Mammy saw the diary later with my permission and she was a bit guilty about "NO PUD". But nothing changed. If there was pudding, we were dlighted. If there was no pudding, we accepted it. But from 9 Jan to 31 Dec I made no more entries. These bloggers are all perfectly normal people. First: enthusiasm. Second: dunno wot ter say. Relax. At least something on planet Earth is peacefully normal. And anyway, I read all the stuff in their about flags of the Empire and knots and semaphore and Morse code over and over. These bloggers probably read other stuff. Does this answer your question? cyquick.wordpress.com

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Robert Scoble — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:26:15 -0000

Geoff: you're right -- it doesn't matter, we're all going to end up in a box in the end anyway.

Hey, a bird just left a blog on my windshield. See, everyone is getting into this "personal expression" thing. Heheh.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Geoff — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:22:49 -0000

Why does it matter Robert? If someone wrote just one post in a lifetime it could still be very valuable to that person and indeed the world if it contained some great insight. Surely thats the point of blogs? Personal free expression..

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Brandon — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:51:58 -0000

Yeah http://www.life-goes-full-c... is empty for me. Almost like a trend now eh? My space is regularly updated, though I think I have no one reading it, but hey whatever.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

defrostindoors — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:30:52 -0000

Full Circle Pete, it says there are no entries for that blog.

Curious--why do the archives go back to August 2004?

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Motorcycle Man750 — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:59:44 -0000

I've had my website going now for 4 month and I've yet to find a comment or trackback. I'm not sure if my site appeares on the web, because I've yet to get an e-mail, plus I can't get the windows media player to work, because I can't find music to put on it. Please, you may check it out.

Full Circle Pete
Everything In Life Is Connnected Together Creating a Full Circle.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Jeff Freeman — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:31:58 -0000

I've never read anything on Live Spaces before. So there's that.

I looked at a few of those linked here, and there's a bigger story there for me:

They all force you to scroll sideways on resolutions below whatever the hell they've decided the minimum is.

So screw 'em.

Web pages that make you scroll sideways are STUPID.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Nick Douglas — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:30:58 -0000

Scoble, this is awesome.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

defrostindoors — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:08:48 -0000

Sure they're boring and crappy--most blogs are. WP has a LOT of blogs with one or two posts put up some months ago, or with nothing done to them at all except perhaps changing the title. (Maybe these people only signed up in order to get Akismet keys, dunno)Personally, I don't like MySpace or LiveJournal(which is what this M$ site reminds me of, rather than sites like WP or Blogger)but if people are using them, what the hell.

I do agree, the Windows Live site is ridiculously slow, plus you cannot leave a comment unless you have a Windows Live ID.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Moe — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:42:11 -0000

Oh wait that wasn't the one.

Here we go http://youtube.com/watch?v=...