Robert, I agree that we are at the beginning of something (not the end). Just got home from the Plaxo holiday party and the energy is high. BIG things coming in 2008 for what will become the "Social Web".
Ryan G
· 2 years ago
I've just hit 6 months with my blog. I've enjoyed the learning process and enjoyed the discipline of writing and following a great start-up market. Blogging and bloggers can be annoiying if all they do is bitch, but a blog like scobleizer, GigaOm, TechCrunch, and other are awesome. I follow similar topics with my own insite. I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS and or del.icio.us (mark as favorite using whatever tool you like) my site and comeback often.
This is kinda weird that I signed up and started using LiveJournal 3 months earlier in September of 2000 (http://shagg.livejournal.com/profile?mode=full). You've definitely posted much more than me in that time though. Keep up the posts. :)
dawnkey
· 2 years ago
Seven is a lucky number. Must be even better things on the horizon. Congrats.
Bryan Villarin
· 2 years ago
Congrats, Robert - and continue with the enthusiastic dedication!
Karoli
· 2 years ago
Congratulations and here's to many more years. Looking forward to the pics of Patrick's high school graduation and Milan's first day of kindergarten.
Oh, and some more posts about cool new things to try, too!
Edwin Khodabakchian
· 2 years ago
Congratulations and that you for all the great content. Looking forward to seeing what you are going to do with 2-way near realtime video!
Shakir Razak
· 2 years ago
Just: Congratulations.
I haven't been here that long, kept hearing your name mentioned, finally made the effort to find and stay, and then went through the phase of obsessive checking and then calming down.
Thanks. for your kindness, openness, wisdom, and more.
Yours kindly,
Shakir
Kishore Balakrishnan
· 2 years ago
Congrats..
Reg. the One regret? I’ve never gone back and read old items I’ve posted other then the few I’ve linked to here. I really should look back a bit more and see what life was like.
Would you like a WordPress plugin which will allow you (the author) to review posts per tag and sequence them in terms of interestingness (What are your recommended 'blogging' posts?)
To expand this, would you also prefer if the readers were able to sort according to their preferences.. ?
This would result in every reader being able to see one's own interesting posts and the community's
Many more than 200. More like 20,000+ about that time, which is when I also started.
It's just that the lists were hand edited in that time, and the sheet that Metafilter Matt maintained only listed a very small tree. The elite.
Some things never change.
Amyth
· 2 years ago
Totally...! :)
I started blogging in 2004 (Blogger) .. abandoned it.. coz I felt like I was talking to the walls..
My "resurrection" was on Wordpress.. and I came out stronger... Thankfully peoplw trickle in now! ;)
vinnie mirchandani
· 2 years ago
Congrats - and thanks from a blogger you continue to inspire.
If there is one request I would like to make is a balance - a little less focus on cool new gadgets and widgets and more of what was your book focus...which is bringing more transparency in to our corporations, politicians etc. You have shared so much of your life with the world...and we persist with marketing and PR control freaks and outright liars in so many aspects of business, professional and political life...
I have been blogging for five years now. I started when I was laid off by Capgemini. Initially the blog was a log documenting my job search. It was during the last recession in 2002. I never found a job, but I started the first of two successful business, learned how to blog and transform myself into a web worker. My wife and I used to laugh that when I turned 50, I would loose my job, the kids would start college, and we would need a new car. That was exactly what happened! What a ride.
Hexatron
· 2 years ago
What's with all the lost posts? Your whole text output for seven years would fit on a buck's worth of floppies. Images and videos need more space, but the material costs would still be in the decadollar range.
Yet you didn't made and keep local copies? I hope that lesson has been learned.
I notice your disaster list does not include fire. Make that one local copy and one in the Safety Deposit Box.
How time fly's huh, and how hindsight can make you think "wow, so that's how I got here" or in my case I just think what might have been.
It's only really in the last 3 years that I've tuned into the bloggersphere but turns out, I pretty much had my own blog running back in 98 but didn't know what a blog was, I was just venting brain farts on a web page, jjlewis.tripod.co.uk if I remember rightly, long gone when they closed my free account but I know I have a backup on floppy because I packed a stack of them like antiques ready for a house move in January. I really wish I could remember my old ICQ number too..
I wish I'd have connected with so many of the great folks around that are smart, entertaining and love sharing ideas, maybe I could have been one of you cool kids even.. If If If... ;-).. Kind of cool that Hugh over on http://gapingvoid.com has a similarly reflective post too, about how you have to give up on "one day".
Jeff B
· 2 years ago
Happy anniversary and here's to many more years. I look forward to reading your post.
Thanks
Jeremy Toeman
· 2 years ago
Congrats!
Om Malik
· 2 years ago
Congrats Robert. Kudos. When it comes to blogging, the journey is really the reward. Keep on trucking...
Toby
· 2 years ago
Congrats! Robert .. saw your Twit before I read your blog ;-)
nils
· 2 years ago
Congrats to your great and insightful blog!
Fred Schechter
· 2 years ago
Congratulations! Keep up the prolificness (new word?) Your information keeps so many people on the bleeding edge, we all appreciate it (no matter how often we don't email you a thank you).
Thank You (see, there's one:)
Tomi Itkonen
· 2 years ago
Congratulations Robert!
An idea: It would be interesting to make some predictions of what will happen in the coming years. Then, on December 2014, we'll check how good we were on forecasting the future...
Dustin
· 2 years ago
My sincere congratulations! May your next seven years be even better.
WindowsObserver
· 2 years ago
Congratulations Robert - life is some journey isn't it?
Marshall Sponder
· 2 years ago
Posted on this - and it was nice meeting you at LeWeb3 this week - good fortune on the new job - wherever it ends up being (I guess we'll find out on January 15th, though I get TechCrunch and OmMalik will leak it earlier).
Thanks again, marshall
whatsnext
· 2 years ago
congratulations robert! it HAS been a great ride. the future seems so bright. thanks for all your great insights, and for the not great ones too. :>)
it's a process, and it's fun.
rickslark
· 2 years ago
Congratulations! It will be exciting to see where we go from here! Good Luck!
marc
· 2 years ago
Hi Robert, Happy next 7 years from Amsterdam Holland!
Nigel Rowe
· 2 years ago
Congratulations, especially on the sheer quantity (and quality) of the interviews. There's a lot of value in those alone. Isn't it a blast to review a lengthy period of time and collectively see everything that you survived and went through just to be where you are today?
steve garfield
· 2 years ago
Hey Robert, Congratulations. Your post prompted me to take a look for my old posts from 1997 and it's funny, but they are still up on some old AOL pages of mine.
" Seven Years of Blogging In the past seven years I’ve survived:
... 4. A divorce."
Mmmnn. Wonder if the two are related? ;) Very true what you say about regretting not going back and looking at old blogs. I did that with a hardcopy journal I used to keep and learned a lot; mostly about how the same themes kept cropping up.
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Kubla: they probably are related, actually. Blogging helps you learn yourself better. After 9/11 and my car wreck, though, I decided to live every day like it was my last. That accelerated everything a lot more.
patricia
· 2 years ago
Yay! Happy birthday, scobelizer!! :)
bitterkarma
· 2 years ago
7 years. That's quite a while.
Roger Jennings
· 2 years ago
A long way from the days at Fawcette. No?
Congrats on hanging in there for seven years.
--rj
Jay, writer MemberSpeed.com
· 2 years ago
Seven years is a pretty long time. And when did I just start blogging again? *scratches head* Those seven years of yours, as you have so deftly summarized, have seen a lot of action. It makes me think about how much we don't know about our future. We can make lots of plans and some of them might push through... But we will never be certain of what really awaits us. Like being involved in two really big companies as you say... Being able to reflect on what has happened is a really grand way of appreciating life.
Ivo
· 2 years ago
What makes me thinking is that you survived a lot in 7 years of your life but your blog posts didn't survive 7 years of technological updates. I think many people have this experience about their digital data. I use computers since the early 80's and most of my stuff can't be accessed anymore. As I wrote in my article http://www.indranet.org/technological-updates-a... my grandmom paper pictures are still there and will be there for a further long time, but I doubt my digital ones will be available to my grandchildren.
Betsy Aoki
· 2 years ago
Complete congrats.... And of course, the best is yet to come!
Cheers to you and your family,
Betsy
raincoaster
· 2 years ago
Congrats and respect. You're a survivor!
sugali
· 2 years ago
Well done and congratulations. Thank you for sharing. It would be interesting to find out what it will be like seven years from now. Where and far the internet progress. Blessings
Tech For Novices
· 2 years ago
great read including the comments
Scotty
· 2 years ago
Hi Scobble, Congratulations man. I really the value of experience and a mentor. Could you please take some time out to look at my blog and provide some feedback, how i can improve PR etc. Would really appreciate it. HOT USA Trends Today TIA.
Aruni
· 2 years ago
Congratulations Robert! That is quite an accomplishment. I'm in my first year of blogging. Sharing all of those joyous/painful experiences with the world I'm sure has helped many people.
On a funny/coincidental note, I just started a series of posts on my entrepreneurial journey (mixing past and present) and the post title is called The Entrepreneurial 7 Year Itch. http://www.entrepremusings.com/index.php/2007/1...
So how will you scratch your blogging 7 year itch? :-)
Tandem Paragliding
· 2 years ago
Congrats on 7 years of sharing your life and thoughts publicly. I am working with small business owners and professionals like lawyers and helping them use blogs, social media, and local search engines to narrowcast their expertise and build community locally. It will be interesting to see how video impacts social media and blogging in the next few years.
Jayakumar Hariharan
· 2 years ago
Every day there is something here to come back. Thank you for those seven years.
Jay, from Bangalore
Jason Brown
· 2 years ago
That was very insightful into your last seven years and going back to the early days of blogging. I think I was just getting an email address sven years ago!
Pooran
· 2 years ago
Hey Robert, That was very interesting post.. Congratulations on a new milestone. Just sitting and looking at past really changes how we do things currently and adds a new perspective.. Thanks for the insight :) Pooran
Katy
· 2 years ago
You have really good experience in it. So tell me: aren't you shy of telling the truth about your life to strange people around the web?
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http://actionstalk.com
Okay, I feel Internet Old(TM) now.
Oh, and some more posts about cool new things to try, too!
I haven't been here that long, kept hearing your name mentioned, finally made the effort to find and stay, and then went through the phase of obsessive checking and then calming down.
Thanks.
for your kindness, openness, wisdom, and more.
Yours kindly,
Shakir
Reg. the One regret? I’ve never gone back and read old items I’ve posted other then the few I’ve linked to here. I really should look back a bit more and see what life was like.
Would you like a WordPress plugin which will allow you (the author) to review posts per tag and sequence them in terms of interestingness (What are your recommended 'blogging' posts?)
To expand this, would you also prefer if the readers were able to sort according to their preferences.. ?
This would result in every reader being able to see one's own interesting posts and the community's
Yes? see http://www.namastenetizen.com/collatodo/wp-sort...
It's just that the lists were hand edited in that time, and the sheet that Metafilter Matt maintained only listed a very small tree. The elite.
Some things never change.
I started blogging in 2004 (Blogger) .. abandoned it.. coz I felt like I was talking to the walls..
My "resurrection" was on Wordpress.. and I came out stronger... Thankfully peoplw trickle in now! ;)
If there is one request I would like to make is a balance - a little less focus on cool new gadgets and widgets and more of what was your book focus...which is bringing more transparency in to our corporations, politicians etc. You have shared so much of your life with the world...and we persist with marketing and PR control freaks and outright liars in so many aspects of business, professional and political life...
http://brillclubpenguincheats.wordpress.com/
Yet you didn't made and keep local copies? I hope that lesson has been learned.
I notice your disaster list does not include fire. Make that one local copy and one in the Safety Deposit Box.
It's only really in the last 3 years that I've tuned into the bloggersphere but turns out, I pretty much had my own blog running back in 98 but didn't know what a blog was, I was just venting brain farts on a web page, jjlewis.tripod.co.uk if I remember rightly, long gone when they closed my free account but I know I have a backup on floppy because I packed a stack of them like antiques ready for a house move in January. I really wish I could remember my old ICQ number too..
I wish I'd have connected with so many of the great folks around that are smart, entertaining and love sharing ideas, maybe I could have been one of you cool kids even.. If If If... ;-).. Kind of cool that Hugh over on http://gapingvoid.com has a similarly reflective post too, about how you have to give up on "one day".
Thanks
Thank You (see, there's one:)
An idea: It would be interesting to make some predictions of what will happen in the coming years. Then, on December 2014, we'll check how good we were on forecasting the future...
Thanks again,
marshall
it's a process, and it's fun.
Congratulations. Your post prompted me to take a look for my old posts from 1997 and it's funny, but they are still up on some old AOL pages of mine.
http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/12/behin...
--Steve
In the past seven years I’ve survived:
...
4. A divorce."
Mmmnn. Wonder if the two are related? ;)
Very true what you say about regretting not going back and looking at old blogs. I did that with a hardcopy journal I used to keep and learned a lot; mostly about how the same themes kept cropping up.
Congrats on hanging in there for seven years.
--rj
Cheers to you and your family,
Betsy
including the comments
HOT USA Trends Today TIA.
On a funny/coincidental note, I just started a series of posts on my entrepreneurial journey (mixing past and present) and the post title is called The Entrepreneurial 7 Year Itch. http://www.entrepremusings.com/index.php/2007/1...
So how will you scratch your blogging 7 year itch? :-)
Jay, from Bangalore
That was very interesting post.. Congratulations on a new milestone. Just sitting and looking at past really changes how we do things currently and adds a new perspective..
Thanks for the insight :)
Pooran