DISQUS

Jesse Stay · 5 months ago

Yay! I missed your posts.

Beth Kanter · 5 months ago

And, maybe commenting in the blog posts will make a come back too!

Steve Rubel · 5 months ago

I look forward to watching and reading!

ka9dgx · 5 months ago

Welcome back to the slower paced world of deeper discussion.... here is a list of deep thoughts to ponder...

Computer security CAN be solved... but not with virus scanners, locking down ports, firewalls, etc. A ground up rebuild based on capability based operating systems will eventually be required. (They've existed since the 1960s, so it is possible)

The internet is not a mesh, but it should be... taking out any single node, or small number of nodes should NOT take down access for a large group of people or machines.

SMTP - the protocol behind email, has no way to authenticate senders.... perhaps it's time to chuck it in the bin of history?

As long as our computers aren't secure... cable and telcos will be using this as an excuse to filter our connections and censor us.... how can we change this?

I've got more....

DGentry · 5 months ago

It is ironic that the topic of the day is mob mentality on friendfeed, when you're going to be away from friendfeed for a week.

Scott Magdalein · 5 months ago

boooo! you know you don't actually WANT to go back to blogging like 'the good ole days'. the conversations you start on FF are so much more robust!

StevenHodson · 5 months ago

Interesting

Rachel · 5 months ago

Rocky's coming as well? Lovely ;) we have to catch up.

Jeremiah Owyang · 5 months ago

Excellent

Dave · 5 months ago

Hi Robert,

A piece of constructive criticism? Try making a post without a single mention of FreindFeed or Twitter.

Back to Blogging Week - 4 mentions of FF, 3 of Twitter.

Real-time Systems - 12 mentions of FF, 12 of Twitter.

Crowd Sourcing - 1 mention of FF, 2 of Twitter.

Future of TV - 2 mentions of FF, 2 of Twitter.

Drama v. Helpfulness - 2 mentions of Twitter.

Cloud Camp - 1 mention of Twitter.

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I mean this to be helpful. I'm glad you enjoy spending time on these two social sites. But my tastes differ from yours. I used to enjoy reading your posts - like the one on the future of TV. But what I couldn't get around - what jumped out at me - were these mentions of FF and Twitter. (Do you know that you could have posted about Cloud Camp without that mention?)

I'm having a hard time with all this noise some "A-listers" create anymore about these two sites. Your peer Dave Winer just posted overnight something about a NY Times reporter being kidnapped... and how it was covered up even on Wikipedia... and then? He somehow got around to speaking about one of his larger personal agendas - Twitter's list!

ANyways, glad to see you posting this week. Hope you realize how "helpful" your blog is!

Scobleizer · 5 months ago

Dave: good criticism, but sorry, Twitter is sweeping across mainstream right now. When I went to Virginia it was the one thing I heard about. Everytime I turn on TV that's what I hear about. So, yes, I will be discussing it disproportionally to other services.

Michael Koby · 5 months ago

I actually think this is neat. Sometimes you have to "return to your roots" so to speak to find out why things are better/worse. While I'm just kind of rediscovering FriendFeed myself, I still think blogging has a huge place in the future of the internet. I think the question will be how and what one blogs about.

Stuart Foster · 5 months ago

Great to hear this Robert. Hope that I had a minuscule amount to do with this. I've missed your posts (and your more long form thoughts). Going to enjoy the return :).

Tyler Hayes · 5 months ago

Glad to see you're coming back around these parts a little now. Finding balance in life is always a good thing, as Martha Stewart might say ;)

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) · 5 months ago

Life is not always perfectly balanced. I just commented at Steven Hodson's blog, and part of what I said is as follows:

"[F]or those of us who have multiple social media presences, there are certain times when one service will be of most benefit to us, and other times when another service will be of most benefit to us. While one could theoretically maintain an equally consistent presence in all of our outlets, the reality is that this doesn't happen. So it's perfectly understandable if someone temporarily ceases participation in one forum to devote attention to another forum."

DGentry · 5 months ago

Wow, my RSS feed is a lot more full this morning. The Scobleizer shared items feed is back.

the Jim Gaudet · 5 months ago

You tell me to retweet this and there is no retweet button. Oh wait, Disqus will tweet this comment, ok done.. Going to miss you on FF

klrabbit · 5 months ago

Got admit , I'll miss your post on Friendfeed, will be interesting week without you there. However I do look forward to your longer post here and at Building43.

Scobleizer · 5 months ago

Some people misunderstood when I said I wasn't going to be on Twitter or FriendFeed. I said "I" wasn't going to be on Twitter or FriendFeed, not that my content wouldn't get pushed there automatically. I have so far kept off of those services, although it's very hard. I'm itching bad! :-)

mlstotts · 5 months ago

Robert - i like the idea of treating FF and Twitter as your feedburner (with comments & threads). Glad you're blogging again.

davidzi · 5 months ago

It's all about balance, I'm at about 50% reading blogs, 30% FF, and 20% Twitter on the consume side. On the publish side I try to average a blog post every other day, like/share the top couple items I come across to my FF and FF groups each day, etc. It's pretty difficult though starting low and getting broad enough exposure that the subset of serious people interested in your content can find you. Especially when you have a day job! While I only have a limited amount of time to generate content, being a "mini-connector" in the areas I'm deep on using these tools is something that I think does provide value.

amitdesai · 5 months ago

nice article and important one as well

Martin Lindeskog · 5 months ago

@scobleizer Robert, I look forward to read your posts! :) How is it going with the #GTD workflow?

Daniel_Honigman · 5 months ago

Look forward to reading you again in more than 140-character chunks.

Scott Gould · 5 months ago

Hey Robert, I've been following Steve, yours and Louis Gray's discussion on lifestream, blogging and the 2010 web.

I am of the opinion that the blog is still an important bed rock of social media. All our micromedia interactions are somewhat ethereal in nature and this, of course, lessens the value of each tweet / like etc. In the plethora of content that we are having, we need a place where our thought can come together into content that has clarity and is able to help people by providing systems, thought-through frameworks and experiences.

Of course we all know that the cumulative effect of our social media creates influence, authority, etc. We all know that by the nature of "new", we must create new content to stay in the game - but if we truly want to add value we need blog posts like I've described above.

amauiblog · 5 months ago

I do care about blogs and I am glad you are coming back to it. Looking forward to your posts :)

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Anime9200 · 3 months ago

Loved to read your blog. I would like to suggest you that traffic show most people read blogs on Mondays. So it should encourage bloggers to write new write ups over the weekend primarily.
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