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link but as I actually lost my pen today, I don't think I'm a good advertisement for luddites ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-26_17:56:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "56b5c076c958758e4cbf7b7d665fe32e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707672": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I appreciate your opinion and the way you connect technology to human experiences.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-25_23:24:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "7b617b55df0414b8deb9837796194cfe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, 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It takes a lot to discuss where you think issues have arisen and to take agency with finding a solution. You mention that there is a disconnect from many discussions taking place in this sector of the internet and the rest of the online community (and the world in general), but have you thought about ways to rectify that, or if it's even necessary to?<br><br>If you have some time, I had some thoughts: <a href=\"http://rabidspacedog.com/?p=435\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://rabidspacedog.com/?p=435</a><br><br>-Ethan<br>(former commenting troll hoping to rekindle discussion)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_23:51:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "79a037be900dfcd4f547210ecc60435c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707674": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well put, Robert, especially the bit about being out of touch with the general population. I'm primarily a designer but have a geek side that can get the best of me. Very few of my friends Twitter and fewer still Pownce. Some are just now getting Facebook accounts and it's actually made me more interested in the site again as more \"regular\" people my age (40) are signing on.<br><br>I ran into you at SXSW and even called your cell (following a Twitter post) to find out where Gary V was having his wine shindig (DeLoach). You're very accessible, so don't go changing! I look to tech blogs to find the shiny things and share them with us so don't go changing that either. Just stay true to yourself, brother; the rest will follow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-25_00:33:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "96511c5eab9f0fa07713c65eda6679e9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707675": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Adding my .02:  I do not think should be about *people*, rather about *ideas*.     I think we need more sites like TechMeme that focus attention on the conversation and then surface many conversations about the topic.   Yet even TechMeme fails to surface most of the good commentary, which is buried by the \"OK\" posts by the big guns in blogging that get most of the links.  Solution?   After a brief innoculation period to eliminate spam, elevate the relative importance of new blogs until they have some traction - ie consider flipping the \"old blogger wins\" on it's head in blog search routines.<br>Downplay the value of links and look for better content ratings systems that use community input more effectively.   Former is risky but worth a shote, latter is happening, but slowly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_17:49:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "d8bb4623895a9ba01a125d3d7800bead", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707676": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert you are one of the great blogging ambassadors, and this post proves it.  No need to apologize - just keep on trucking my good man!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_17:40:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "d8bb4623895a9ba01a125d3d7800bead", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707677": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thoughtful post, Robert.<br><br>I agree with much of what you're saying, but wouldn't be so hard on most of the top bloggers, including yourself.<br><br>a) Everyone has trouble dealing with success at first, especially when it's been brought from the bottom up. How do you remain famous and down to earth!? It's tough.<br><br>b) The last four years have been the social bubble. Noise. Noise. Noise... and I'm not talking economics and companies -- I'm talking social interaction wise, with the \"tech set.\" This will mellow out (though we'll always, due to our closeness with innovation, be a little hyped up in this area).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_16:10:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "b24f4f67b10c1df85f342ce148c7bcca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707678": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with Votre. Just because someone can write a sentence, have an opinion and carry on a blog doesn't make them a journalist/reporter anymore than my ability to throw together a dinner makes me a professional chef. Somewhere along the long we've elevated blogging to a higher status than it is, that of opinions and commentary. There's nothing wrong with this--just quit trying to pretend it's a replacement for the NY Times, WSJ, etc. Indeed, like their old media colleagues, the tech bloggers spend a lot of time talking about the same companies--yes, gushing about Apple--rather than doing critical analysis and original thought. We need more of the latter, and less of the poor imitations of traditional media. Otherwise, what IS the point of blogging?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_15:00:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "54d7a2c37dfcdc090ee923e75010c2aa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707679": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Blogging has become a game and, more importantly, a marketing tool. Didn't you and your cohorts not define and heavily promote it as such?<br><br>Blogging has also become about rules; mostly, rules aimed at SEO, media relations, brand reputation, and most important for bloggers, self-promotion.<br><br>Blogging stopped being about simply writing and sharing years ago. Those days are gone and will not return. You can't go home again. Game on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_10:12:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "bafe9224cc4e1d0a88bcccab73cde024", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707680": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert writes:<br>...I\u2019m going to be changing my approach to being one that\u2019s more practical and useful ... Do you agree or disagree?...What blogs are doing the best tech blogging?<br><br>Reply:<br>Yes I agree.  Thank you for noticing and implementing changes.<br><br>As for the best tech blogs - I don't know - I seek your help - but I didn't notice many of the 180 previous comments identify any.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_10:20:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "6c036d0d20191fb1b6245457ec25e153", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707681": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am surprised to find you realize you were heading nowhere, by just staying in the race.<br>But, I guess you will back to your same ways, within few days.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_00:21:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "e5f3ab7dc96ecc0edf360bce0aac9ed9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707682": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You went from talking about it all day, running a few scripts, crying that they didn't conform to your edge-case needs, to hating it (after people complained your non-stop spam hijacked their feeds), and not using it much, not checking it in months, and then going gaga over the new shiny toys in Twitter and Friendfeed.<br><br>Plus at the time, Facebook was getting these insane deep-space bubble-territory valuations, knowing that you were hot on it, was a sign that it would cool seriously off, becoming just another fad, and it has, stooge Microsoft, wanting to be the cool kid on the block, knew not such.<br><br>And more people use MySpace, so can we call that a winner too? Raw numbers mean very little, the 'eyeball-accounting-era' should have taught us that well enough. And Nielsen Online surveys, in April, showed only 22.4M, and seriously dropping...so from your 90 million to 22.4 million, I mean you called it perfectly right, just in reverse, predicting Facebook fatigue, just by getting interested in it. Valuable service indeed.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:30:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f6291e8344b594235e57b843fc05d9b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707683": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Your post was a welcome breath of fresh air.<br><br>One thought occurred to me after I read it: In some respects, technical blogging sets itself up for problems in that most of it takes the form of a \"one-person\" show.  Hubris is an easy trap to fall into when you're working alone.<br><br>Gathering and reporting the news requires a variety of skills (investigation, interviewing, writing, editing, fact checking, cultivating reliable sources, etc.) that have traditionally been handled by team members that brought their individual areas of expertise to bear on each of those requirements. In short, the skill set necessary to do a good job of reporting is usually beyond the compass of any but the most rare and gifted individual.<br><br>So why is it so many bloggers believe they have become such merely by virtue of the fact that they share their thoughts online instead of at a saloon?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_23:27:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "0822121152930921c09e932be51942d5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707684": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "scoble is a personality, very much like geraldo rivera or rush limbaugh. his main job is networking and self-promotion. he is very, very good at both. he is also very good at adopting any new technology that will aid in both of these pursuits.<br><br>technologies that fall outside of personal productivity, he has little or no training to judge and rarely takes the time to find authorities who do. be warned: make business decisions using scoble's advice regarding technologies outside of personal productivity at your career's peril.<br><br>much like rush and geraldo, that small minority of people responsible for creating or managing technology  that read scoble do so for his entertainment value.<br><br>he is very entertaining.<br><br>just don't mistake his certainty for learned or researched insight.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:41:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "4deff49e9064cd3606f7d6976441c16e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707685": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "James: what the hell are you talking about? When have you ever seen me recommend something I didn't personally get knowledgeable about? I haven't recommended SQL Server over Oracle or anything like that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:57:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707686": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chris: you are a real winner. I've picked lots of winners too. I guess you forget the multiple months of praising Facebook that I did. I guess 90 million users isn't winning in your books. And there are plenty of others, too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_22:59:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707687": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>I've followed your postings for several years.  This one made me jump out of my feed reader (RSS Bandit) to see your blog Website and check things out directly.  Clearly, blogging is now an establishment of its own.  Please continue shaking things up!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_21:09:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "c0801dd03821f2203e81669a38118375", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707688": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "All I know is the A listers get 99.9% of the attention and the rest of us get table scraps.  You've gotta have a REALLY new and creative idea to get everyone's attention these days.  A little link baiting dosen't hurt either ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_05:38:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "ffa7447b63f94d8419636f058914382c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707689": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great insights Robert, agree for a great part. It reminds me of preparing for my literature interviews in high school, when we just read the summaries of some great book. Yeah, we were missing out on great content, groupthink was all over the place.<br><br>Isn't blogging becoming like that in a sense? There's just so much content out there, so we skip straight to the summaries, and ignoring possibly useful, insightful, out-of-the-ordinary gems of blog posts and writers?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_04:10:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "hansdoddema", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707690": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I like coming here because it's an interesting Tech Blog...but I think it's pretty unfair for you to be so harsh on people who comment (and don't agree w/ your posts) and then say Blogging in general is oversaturated and apparently useless nowadays.<br><br>The truth is that a blog w/o the ability for people to leave comments is NOT a blog (it's just a standard ol' webpage). The moment I get the impression a site is moderating comments so that only people who conform get heard, that's when I leave. Now that you've made it clear that readers won't have an equal say on your site from here on out, you can expect a huge drop off. Honestly, this may be exactly what you want. Less readers, but more \"me too\" people. I dunno...I personally don't mind criticism if it helps me later on and when I'm wrong I'll admit it.<br><br>As far as saying other blogs are pointless because they repeat info from other sources, that's unfair also. The whole point of most well-known blogs now is to keep up that visitor traffic for advertising reasons. Why YOU may not like it that sites A, B &amp; C are talking about the Microsoft/Yahoo deal, that doesn't make it any less of a good topic to post about.<br><br>Personally, I'm absolutely sick and tired of all the Apple gushing that goes on in the tech community. I'm almost positive the key bloggers of the world are Mac fanboys and use their insane web traffic (through Podcasts, Blogs, etc.) to try to push this on everyone else. I'm getting to the point where I'll just ignore a person for awhile if they talk about the iPhone or how superior OSX is, but why should I have to? If you really want to be a different sort of blogger, blog about different things instead of complaining about what other bloggers do.<br><br>Maybe it's time for you not to blog anymore at all. I'm not saying do it...but if you honestly feel like blogging is a chore, maybe that's a sign you should stop. I've never thought blogging and business should mix because there's just too much risk of becoming blatantly biased...and when that happens, you better expect readers to be just as divided or leave altogether.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-24_13:18:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "2e6373ccc91119ca8ca61ea3dedcf689", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707691": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Louis Gray has a post on a similar topic that's worth reading: <a href=\"http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/07/techmeme-and-techcrunchs-detractors.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/07/techmeme-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:09:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707692": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "IMHO there seems to be too much coverage (in general on the web) of the MS/Yahoo deal, Apple's latest overpriced thing, Twitter downtime and never enough about Linux or open source. But then I'm sure that's because of my own interests.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:22:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d64d1f44126702d2502b9ced6033fb3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707693": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh boy, I agree with you on many if not all of your points. It was what I am still blogging for, sharing great things that I find. Always trying to find the positive site, or when there is a negative story trying to look at possible improvements.<br>Negative comments and online fights are no fun to read.<br>Twitter once a great communications now more more people add just a feed to their profile and are just sending, not responding to questions. PR Twitter feeds.<br>It is all part of the growing up pains of this web 2.0 area.<br>Curious to see where this is going.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:22:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "ernohannink", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707694": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree that tech blogging is becoming more difficult to attract attention and compete with TechCrunch, Mashable, Ars Technica etc.<br>This is especially the case when you blog about generak IT stuff, new products and services from the Big Boys, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, IBM etc.<br>However, I think there IS value in blogging about niche markets or have a blog that specialises in a certain aspect of IT.<br>I have a news blog about FreeBSD and operating systems based on FreeBSD (<a href=\"http://www.freebsdnews.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.freebsdnews.net</a>) with a relatively small audience, but because it's small you get a chance to report news first, there's less competition and you have a more personal relationship with a a number of your readers", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:24:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "45d52cbcffb49a24062bdcf566b68676", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707695": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Richard: yeah, Linux doesn't get coverage because it isn't used on many people's desktops. I never see Linux in the airport and rarely see it at tech conferences, so it's easy to ignore because it's only used in servers/data centers, etc. Open source? Old topic and not much new there, except when someone tries to use it in a new place (like Yahoo's search engine applied it lately).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:25:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707696": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tim: learning to write, take photos, build relationships with people who build stuff, and learning to do videos +is+ a skill and is needed in the industry to help sift the important from the unimportant.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:26:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707697": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I just realized that Tim is one of those jerks I just can't stand. Gone.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:27:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707698": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, please ignore my previous comment<br><br>I agree that tech blogging is difficult to attract attention. The blog needs to have something \"extra\" in order to be able to compete with TechCrunch, Mashable, Ars Technica etc. This is especially the case when you blog about IT in general, new products and services from the Big Boys, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple,Google, IBM et.<br><br>However, I think there IS value in blogging about niche markets or specialising into a certain aspects/niches of technology<br>I have a blog about FreeBSD and operating systems based on FreeBSD (<a href=\"http://www.freebsdnews.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.freebsdnews.net</a>) with a relatively small audience, but because it's small you get a chance to report news first and to have a more personal relationship with readers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:27:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "45d52cbcffb49a24062bdcf566b68676", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707699": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So the important thing will be what you do next with this insight.  My challenge to you is to set up a blog space somewhere else.  Something like a hobbyist setup of Wordpress, out of anyone else's control, and use that as a clean slate.  Let someone else take the control of commenting out of your hands, like Disqus.  Do your non-business stuff there and see how that grows compared to your current space.  If not, then you know the old style is dead, end of experiment, wipe the blog clean, and back to business you go.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:31:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "198ae0800b22b166e9f1cdf91d7683de", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707700": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Depends on your who you are writing for.. who you want your readers to be..<br><br>The average Joe or the average Joel?<br><br>And as you said, there are so many channels today that you can leverage, that it doesnt have to be 'OR'..<br><br>And if tech blogging has really 'failed', i dont think it'd be around and kicking as much.<br><br>One blog I do enjoy is Bob Warfield's <a href=\"http://smoothspan.wordpress.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">smoothspan.wordpress.com</a><br>Incisive, opinionated writing. Not just news and links.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:34:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "aa6412c56c96a55c8062dd1ae27784af", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707701": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Refreshing: Go for it, Robert. I'd be delighted to see tech blogging swing back to things which excite users, not just investors and CEOs. Awesome.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:37:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "chrisbaskind", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707702": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with you on many of your points. I read your blog because I am looking for opinion, not news, not latest news. I don't need them. I don't care about them. But I do care about opinions, specially when they show new ways of seeing something or points that I did not even think about. I am also happy with your slow blogging, it's the only way to keep up. You should see my google reader, I only keep up with slow bloggers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:39:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "51f41ec2a3ea5958af33a196792fd09c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707703": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ernie is right: Put \"Sabbathical, some Weeks at least\" in h1 on <a href=\"http://scobleizer.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">scobleizer.com</a>, keep it accessible, and append your time and motivation to what you'd just described.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:41:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "9f92c5b050671f54aac1b2350e67a1c4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707704": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Congratulations on your epiphany and having the backbone to realise that you need to do something about it. Tech is still cool, just because it's currently fashionable and highly monetised hasn't changed our enjoyment of it.<br><br>Working outside of the US, I have never seen the value of TechCrunch et al. I may as well wait and read the business pages in the Sunday newspaper as deals by giant west-coast companies have little urgency in my life.<br><br>BTW I'm a tech blogger that still uses Windows 2000, I just never saw the need to upgrade. I also use a five year-old iBook G4 because it's cheap and still works beautifully.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:49:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "ecaa59d0ca398fdd94db242b08de3741", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707705": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When you see many blogs dealing with the same topic and trying to reproduce it over and over again then it makes me feel that it's actually my fault as a reader. If I, you, he/she, as a reader, think that the Yahoo/Microsoft deal is really important and hot then it is expected that \"every\" blog will write about it in order to gain visits, diggs etc.<br><br>If on the other hand the readership shows its HOT interest on other things, let us say Google Friend Connect vs FB f8 then bloggers wouldn't make so much fuss about Microhoo and would focus on the above mentioned.<br><br>Do I sound naive? Maybe...and maybe not.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:50:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "375dde5ad5cd410b697325a0d0934a3b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707706": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Really good post, Robert. It's great to see the Scoble I started reading years ago (when your \"latest thing\" was Tablet PC!) back. Welcome back, mate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:50:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "000801987fb3dd4d9b92db484c455ba0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707707": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The news blogs, amongst which many tech blogs sit, get skimmed, titles only. Actually, those are the ones that title feeds are better - you can flick through a lot quicker.   Opinions and enthusiasm are far more fun to read! Just bring me what you love, not what you think you should be writing about to get the traffic and keep up with the current hot thing", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_06:51:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "ed098c9099a21233b72777f264a8e853", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707708": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That was a good post.  \"Fail\" might be the wrong word to use, but as you mention, many tech bloggers have been focusing too much on the latest thing.   I don't need to visit blogs to read what is in my RSS feed from the tech news sites.  I appreciate your opinion and the way you connect technology to human experiences.  I also appreciate your twitter feeds so please keep that up.<br><br>And if folks reply to your question \"What blogs are doing the best tech blogging?\" I'd appreciate seeing the list.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Bob Gourley<br><a href=\"http://ctovision.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ctovision.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_07:02:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "ctovision", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707709": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Socbl\u00e7e, don't you thinks tools like Friendfeed, Facebook and others are what blogging needs to be saved? I tend to see these tools (as well as StumbleUpon, i.e.) as filters to what is really relevant and what is PR in disguise or just a old fashioned bad post.<br><br>So, blogging did fail, but did not become irrelevant. It just needs to be put in sync with mechanisms that allow us who's delivering the goods or not. You can't go wrong with the wisdom of crowds.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_07:32:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "518d9068ac4f5b5f14991bf68c7d6be6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707710": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John Head: I regularly do interviews with \"old school\" companies too. SAP, Microsoft, IBM, HP have all had time on my show recently. Maybe we need to go a little deeper into enterprise stuff once in a while. Point taken.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:36:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707711": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, don't worry; the \"suck\" of commercialization will arrive at Twitter and Friendfeed soon enough. It's not the medium that sucks, it's the people who use it, and the maturity of the medium. That's why TV, radio, and movie theaters suck, and why blogs are now coming under attack - it's all about the money.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:37:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab21890e84fd31ff0d651d77bc82d118", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707712": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "...<br><br><br>Techcrunch overcame the business focus - by creating<b> TechCrunch IT</b> and smaller vertical sites that CrunchGear.<br><br>Only a large blog could accomplish this and be successful - but it shows that there is an avenue for those who do not want to abandon tech for business.<br><br>Mashable too, is managing to keep some of their tech roots while focusing on the necessary business stories to survive", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_07:36:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "284ef8707741488c899af19d7a2ddd60", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707713": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey Robert,<br><br>Great post! It circles a lot of the sentiment that's been bounced around by Fred Wilson and others around the importance of blogging (I did a little comment on it on my new blog).<br><br>One suggestion I had, which I'm also planning to do, is to link your blog comments with FriendFeed's -- I believe there's a plugin or something. I think this is the real, active, fun crowd that can give you that sense of thrill about technology (I know I do, every day, reading my FriendFeed).<br><br>Keep up that child-wonder feeling!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_07:51:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1b77d4c7b303b2110edb8fd705f0778", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707714": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post Robert.<br><br>I feel the same way.<br><br>It would be easy for me to turn my blog into a PR machine to try and promote my investments 24x7.<br><br>But that wouldn't work for me and why work-related posts are the minority of my posts.<br><br>The part that really struck a chord with me about your post is all the negativity on tech blogs these days. I'm sure they are therapeutic for the blogger and they are trying to shine a light on something they care about it - but it seems like it's getting nasty.<br><br>We should try to help each other. Not kick each other.<br><br>Look forward to watching/reading your blog evolve.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_07:55:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "64aa2b4a91613b4e2e2754ad8f6cca2a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post, Robert. So much blog content just doesn't have genuine value. Some is the writer's responsibility which combined with the rush to be first to post creates gushes of 'me to' stuff. And what we don't have are the tools that provided suitable aggregation along the lines of 'x says... and another 25 posts are very similar' to provide decent filtering based on content. Thankfully there are still people who think before they post. But not so easy to see any longer amongst all the other chatter online.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_07:56:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "9e055e50a5cf90931a4a89b18e317a53", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707716": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert: Actually I see a lot of tech people moving to Linux on their laptops, work systems and home systems, but no real big headline deployments campus/company wide. This seems to be *growing* at a faster rate than any system right now though still at a lower overall percentage than either Windows or Macs. This seems to be the case at least in a couple UK Universities I know about anyway, where users tend to have more freedom about what they use. Ubuntu seems to be a lot more popular than anything right now for newbies and seems to avoid the old question of what distro to use (which used to be either RedHat or Suse).<br><br>I'd say in 10 years of using Linux there is more interest than at any time I can remember. It seems that Ubuntu is more popular than the iPhone for example, but the iPhone gets loads of coverage.<br><br>For the record - all my systems (work, home desktop, laptop) are single boot into Linux and only the laptop has a virtual machine XP install which I use to test IE7 and Safari rendering but I don't find it useful for anything else really.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_07:58:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d64d1f44126702d2502b9ced6033fb3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707717": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I fully agree with your post, to much information, not enough follow up and not enough usable info this is what is make blogging like a news paper. Blogging is not new , it is something different which make you share your experience or knowledge with others. I suggest a rule for a post, 100 words only and useful to somebody.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_08:06:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "31ff0a08d3ac284837f9faa3aec8cfbc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707718": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I definately agree with everything your saying I'm a new reader to your site I heard about you through a really good tech friend of mine and I am personally only I'd say medium knowledge on alot of technology things but by going through and reading alot of your stuff I find myself completely interested in the things you have to say and in a way I really can understand. I'm glad your going back to basics so to say and I also love it when I can just sit down with someone and get a little nerdy with a friend about a commonly loved subject. I look forward to reading more from you and apologize for finding you so late.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_08:12:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "9d7a8cf264f76ae829f8aabd02dd53d4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707719": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ask yourself these questions:<br><br>1) When was the last time I sat and \"SEARCHED\" for new tech out there? (without being sent something to read out)<br><br>2) Do I care about New tech outside the valley on a 1 to 1 level, instead of finding out about it via VC's?<br><br>3) Do I like technology for technology's sake or for the people that are behind?<br><br>4) Evaluate a tech to see if it is genuinely new, not a BBS recreated on the web?<br><br>All the 'popular' blogs have gone down the shitter with content being pushed up front based on their sponsors, not genuine user interest. And, people are sheep, they will follow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_08:15:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "4aa3b8082b62a8b9334e399cf46a2688", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707720": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well Robert,<br><br>Am I allowed to say \"Wow, Classical/Legendary Post\" ?<br>Don't keep it in the category of 14-year olds; coz, I'm 17 years old :D<br><br>Yeah, it is long. But I read it full (twice!!).<br>Now, I'm not able to write a comment that'll compliment the class of the content that lies above this, but I just wanted to state that:<br><br>\"I AGREE WITH YOU\"<br><br>I'm a tech-blogger myself, but seriously a bit (or a lot ?) far away from the position you are enjoying now !!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_08:20:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "dc32659cf86a95cff4be78c5482f4da6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707721": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, come back to jkOnTheRun.  We deliberately avoid doing just what you're complaining about.  There's too much fun with the tech, gadgets, etc., to be worried about the business of tech.  We're waiting for you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_08:27:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "1812969af7bcf7098df95794a0848769", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707722": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert I will agree with most of what you have to say. Digg is not a good resource for information (at least for me) and as for TechCrunch or TechMeme or Google News they remind me of CNN NEWS and all I do is scan and very seldom read. I am looking for the NEW in technology and or the NEW in uses of current technology. I am a big fan of \"What's happening?\" not who is trying to screw who. Sometimes the stuff you write goes over my head but as time goes along I can put it together with something else. I am still trying to find my voice and your GOOD stuff helps and the other I just overlook. \"Keep on keepin' on\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_08:33:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "cf43bd74604850f7f80503951b59531c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707723": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, you are dead on. So many of us who have been in blogging for years sometimes lose sight of why we started in the first place as the direction of blogging has gone more mainstream. Thank you for reminding me why I do what I love in the first place and that I need to keep that focus.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:39:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "32c608fdf71784ba1d9805d0eedb18b7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707724": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, this was an interesting article.  I find myself skimming the top tech blogs for subjects that sound like they might be discussing something new and interesting.  I rarely read Techcrunch anymore, but I do see what they are linking too.<br><br>I am totally 100% in agreement and you really had my attention when you talked about Apple and the latest and greatest stuff.  I am just wrapping up the XP upgrade at my firm.  Windows 2000 is not that far gone for us, and I know that many of the people in the firm are still using it at home (along with Windows 98).  I do think though, that highlighting the new technologies is what helps to generate buzz, and I think that buzz will lead to new people moving on with more modern gadgets and operating systems.  Every so often I will have someone at work as me a question about something new in technology, and bring up your name or Techcrunch or Mashable...the message does get down to the masses eventually.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_08:51:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "b54bc4652e144121421eaae265ed2b37", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707725": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post! So true and honest! The same thing that you observe, I also observe here in Greece, although I am not a tech blogger but I follow many tech blogs from all over the world.<br><br>Replying to your last question \"What blogs are doing the best tech blogging?\" I prefer to follow tech blogs that at least 5 out of 10 of their entries still today seem useful and interesting to me.<br>I think that labnol from <a href=\"http://www.labnol.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Digital Inspiration</a> is doing a great job.<br>He is choosing the most interesting news and tips and he tweets only when he has something really important to say or to notice.<br>Maybe it helps that he is thousand miles away from the \"coolest events\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_08:52:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "e7d2644c72411eb9295b9a273490b0ff", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707726": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>I look out for things I can use, and Evernote is one of them. I examine things for myself and usually don't take the hype at face value. I watch things come and go, and wonder why some of them ever came in the first place.<br><br>I imagine I am like most of your readers, most twitterers, most powncers, most bloggers.<br><br>I remind myself that quality derives from attention to detail, competence, and love of what one is doing. And if there is intended to be an audience for whatever it is that is being developed, then for the developer, quality also derives from respect for the audience and the users and a sense of responsibility in making sure the thing works right.<br><br>Some of the neatest things I use were made by people who made the thing to satisfy themselves.<br><br>So the task for you is to be a good detective, and find the good things.<br><br>Keep smiling -it's infectious.<br><br>:)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_08:54:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea09ad74746b6f142f9ed02420244416", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707727": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think you've succumbed to something most of us do: why am I doing this? And truthfully, there's something about technology: it's moving too damn fast to keep up with. That's why many tech bloggers focus on the \"shiny new\" and never follow up. But I agree, Lifehacker does a great job, as does <a href=\"http://MakeUseOf.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">MakeUseOf.com</a>. To be honest, I heard of you and knew you well on the comments, but it was only when I started following you on FriendFeed that I took an interest in what you were up to.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_09:03:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "7bdad63848b77a0295e5a6a2b446756c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707728": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is exactly why I've stopped reading most tech blogs...the nastiness and the monotony.  The comments are particularly bad.  I used to read over 50 blogs that could be classified as tech, now that number hovers around 3.  Now I've mostly migrated to reading what other people would term \"mommy\" blogs, because the community is friendly and caring, and the bloggers tend to discuss things that make me happy.  I find it makes my day that much more enjoyable.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_09:20:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "67b4065bd06abe0f47b7fcd496c7b91a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707729": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Agree to almost every word of it :-) I have cut down from 350 of feeds to 90 odd. Out of these 90 odd - they are recommendations from people who read lots. from delicious and other stuff. Some I regularly read are: Smart Mobs + Communities Dominate + some select mobile blogs. I also wish there were blogs on Nano, Bio-tech who would engage in diverse set of conversations online!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_09:29:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "0eb745e3319408ef15e689610b3dc7a4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707730": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks for the update. I look forward to the new improved scobleizer.<br><br>To use the subtitle of a book I like:<br>We could do with REDISCOVERING PASSION &amp; WONDER.<br><br>Don't forget the early adapters but don't pander to them either.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_09:36:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "d079a23d1d88798d20a6a314fc747c12", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707731": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think one reason tech blogging (and blogging in general) is failing to engage audiences is because bloggers are trying to replace the comments section on news sites.  Whenever a piece of news hits the web, the bloggers jump all over it with a standard \"Here's the article, here's what I think\" post.  Now I'm not denying the different writing styles and subtly different takes each blogger comes to the table with, but essentially most of the blogs I read (or gave up on) followed the same format:  \"Look at this shiny new gadget, it's great!\" or \"Company X bought Company Y, what a bunch of idiots!\" or \"Obscure tech conference ABC opens tonight, and I saw these three blogger A-listers there!!\"  I don't see why I couldn't get this type of commentary in the news sites' comments sections.<br><br>Additionally the tech blogosphere is a giant echo chamber, with everyone basically scooping each other's news, clogging up readers' RSS feeds with identical articles.  I once had to navigate seven different blogs until I actually found the original source of a story (probably Reuters).  I (still) have more than 30 different tech blogs and \"blognews\" feeds in my Netvibes dashboard, and if iPhone is the big news, EVERYONE will be talking about iPhone (and saying the same things about iPhone).  If the Yahoo soap opera is news today, sure enough Yahoo will show up in those 30+ feeds.<br><br>Here's a suggestion for bloggers: If, on a given day, CNET and Techcrunch and Techmeme and Om and BoingBoing and ReadWrite all have pretty much identical \"Article+Commentary\" posts about the MacBook Air--take that day to talk about something totally different.  In fact, don't even mention the MacBook Air.  Maybe write about the clever tech insight you came up with while skydiving yesterday.  Write about the last conversation you had with a software developer who's over 50.  Write about something that's not necessarily the BIG STORY OF THE DAY but that you can present from an angle that few others have considered.<br><br>Well, that's my rant. Take it or leave it", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_09:36:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "d118dc0ab4c31b1918345634e2a3fdea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707732": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What I don't like about tech blogging is the \"They don't get it\" attitude towards nontech people.  I've never once seen any tech blogger even consider the notion that perhaps he is the one who doesn't get it.<br><br>So there is this echo chamber where only tech interests are considered and everybody else's interests be damned.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_09:42:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "807649270a68e4bc6d489d6fec81fdb1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707733": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sboble, I'm not sure what you drank before you wrote this post, but whatever it was, I want some.  I totally agree with your reflection.<br><br>I read you top bloggers religiously, and as of late, I've been pretty tired of the repetition and homogeneity. I can't say I'm doing any better myself.  What can we do better to diversify, and appeal to larger audiences?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_09:48:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "21ca709b1f3447911981d844ece2a9e8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707734": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dawn has an excellent point. I'll be thinking about that as much as I can as I continue my bloging.<br>Chippy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_09:55:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "a4eca773b2c6d0a73943c0763b6f8b51", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707735": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, I've literally only been reading your blog for about two weeks or so.  I've been trying to read up to \"get smart\" on technology, updates, and tools.<br><br>I keep coming back to your blog because you seem to have so much darn fun.<br><br>More than anything, I watch your videos.  Your interviews are like gold to me - you have fun with them, I learn new things, and get to comment real time with the other viewers.<br><br>Your blog has more personality than the others.  It's fun.  And, unlike other tech blogs and sites, I learn how I can incorporate new tools into what I'm doing with my clients.<br><br>Keep it up, Scobleizer.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_09:56:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "577f837a2ebcb6c9e56be4aabea1ef02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707736": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks for your thoughtful commentary, and for reaching out to your readership.<br><br>I've only begun reading your blog and following you on Twitter within the last year, but so far, you have intro'd me to Kyte and Qik (so I can tell others about streaming from a cell phone although mine can't do it,) you've told me about Sifry's Offbeat Guides (I just ordered one yesterday for Grand Rapids, MI - there's a beta test!) you've told me about FriendFeed and why you like it so much (I'm not that into it but thanks to you I can understand the appeal of better threading, like Plurk) and I've downloaded the Microsoft telescope thingie but just haven't had time to look at it, though I know it'll be great when I do. Finally, I met Rocky because of you, and now I can say Hi to him occasionally on Twitter and keep him updated on drag racing news.<br><br>I'm a \"regular Joe\" writer with a busy life who likes having you out there \"on point\" for me - you're my own personal tech scout.<br><br>You bring enthusiasm and kindness to a medium that is too often in danger of snarkifying itself.  The fact that you sit back and think out loud about self-improvement like this is testament to your professionalism and genuine regard for your readers.<br><br>Thanks for what you do - keep writing and I'll keep reading.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_09:57:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "32453919cd499a8e6b4f210f24a44120", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707737": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Techie audience thirsty for knowledge is much smaller then the Get-rich-quick audience, but the largest demographic is the Free-lunch boys.<br><br>The blogs with the most revenue have tricked their advertisers into believing teenage boys are business decision makers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_09:59:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b646ff3eeda1f01cc2b1cb86d1634f9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707738": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm new to the world of blogging and are still tweaking with things. Your blog certainly isn''t boring. I would appreciate if you visit my blog and give me some tips or suggestions. <a href=\"http://quagmires.wordpress.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://quagmires.wordpress.com/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:01:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "19efaaa3092cc5dde108589853bb34e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707739": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with Sheila about your enthusiasm and kindness, Robert.  And I would add that you're the least arrogant tech blogger that I know of, which is greatly appreciated, though you do have your moments. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:01:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "807649270a68e4bc6d489d6fec81fdb1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707740": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "bravo, Jerry MCGuire.<br><br>Seriously, great insight.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:02:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7270956ac0caf52bdb2ed9d3d399232", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707741": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The problem with thinking about how someone has failed another is the assumption there's some obligation on your part to succeed. You don't owe anyone anything. Just do your thing. If people like it, cool. If they hate it, hot. Going to meta in your own head is what causes golfers to blow one foot puts. Just sing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:10:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea5036994d8e3d00fe4c9ede36c2d05a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707742": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "While I follow all of you in the tech world via rss, friendfeed, and twitter, nothing personal Scoble, but most of what you post has no real value to me on a daily basis. Same with the non-business side. I am a consultant in Chicago. I spend my days implementing solutions for customers. I don't care about what is 'cool' or 'fun' ... I care about what I can learn to solve my customers problems. I find so much that I read part of the bubble many live in ... and do not realize that everyone outside of that just watch for entertainment value. Did web 2.0 have a major impact on the world? of course. But I am not implementing solutions from people you video ... I implement solutions from folks like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and others. Is the iPhone appstore cool? Of course it is ... but until I can get apps from my bank, insurance customer, and things like OpenTable and DiningIn on there ... the value is pretty low.<br><br>Please, do not stop what you do. Nor do I want TechCrunch and TechMeme or other folks like SmugMug (Don is an amazing guy) to stop what your doing. But please realize those of us outside the bubble just don't care about the fights and bickering. Business Reporting is a good thing. The best situation would be a well balanced mix of business, cool ideas, video, and case studies of this being used in real world situations, with real customers, impacting the real bottom line.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:11:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "957d30ed36401de1684bde735949955f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707743": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hey robert-<br><br>i started to blog about this a bit yesterday (more under the theme of not putting the same people on stage at conferences like Defrag):<br><br><a href=\"http://defragcon.com/Blog/?p=244\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://defragcon.com/Blog/?p=244</a><br><br>let's catch up soon!<br>ejn", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:17:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "f29ea964cd83dc37d65a22589a4e003c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707744": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Interestingly enough, I have been meaning to go through my feeds and remove a lot of the extraneous stuff. Seems I'll see 10 articles about the same new PMP or Xbox game ... and yet, none of it really matters all that much to me. To say that you're \"out of touch with the real world\" is subjective. You're not touting yourself as a \"real world\" blog, you're a tech blog. The tech world IS out of touch sometimes. ;-)<br><br>For as long as you've been around, I only just recently found your blog. It's one of the few I actually READ, rather than just skim. First, it's not just a shotgun approach to topics ... you put considerable effort and writing into your posts. Second, for the most part, I'm genuinely interested in your topics. Finally, yours has insight. As somebody who's been doing this for a while, your name is certainly out there ... you'd be pressed to find a \"geek\" who hasn't at least heard of Scoble!<br><br>Please don't change up your format too much. Like I said, I've only recently discovered you and am liking what I read. However, Lifehacker IS one of my favorite sites and anything along those lines is good too.<br><br>One more thought, I dig Apple products (for the most part). But also dig my XP box and my Linux distros too. IMHO, if it works, use it. Things are shifting away from being OS-centric to being more user-centric anyway. You can open just about any format file on just about any system nowadays. Half the applications people use are web-based too, so it doesn't matter what platform you get your data from ... Wii, XP, iPhone, etc. The smart companies will realize that and make interfaces generic enough to use on any device.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:23:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "779b501ebee7ca2328eb970bc5016823", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707745": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well said, well done!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:23:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "53b88fc68e5ac686057d75688c23f268", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707746": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd guess your main issue will be aggressively filtering out the torrent of junk that people constantly try to push on a pundit of your stature, to make time for the things you want to focus on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:23:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "6089f1fee61daf7f2f54a742a98f6e4a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707747": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good posting. But you say \"Twitter where there are real people who don\u2019t care about the business but who are just looking to use technology to have more fun\" but I find I am already being spammed <a href=\"http://johnwelsh.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/twitter/%21\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://johnwelsh.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/twitt...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:28:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "6c46247e6a0cc4e3d6bb3b84329327df", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707748": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post Scoble...  In the long run, the approach you mention here will win  you a bigger following, and hopefully will encourage other bloggers to follow suit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:32:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "3fc742fabe352f4703a8beeed0ceff9d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707749": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey Robert,<br><br>First thing I'd like to say is that I loved the post. I loved it because it proves more than ever that you believe strongly in the world you spend your life reporting on, which regardless of any failings that blogging has is the most important thing in the world (which I've been rambling on and on about for the last week).<br><br>The only part I had to comment on was HP reference you made. I am an Electrical Engineer by trade, and it stuns me so much how quickly we (as \"blog people\") convolve the concept of technology with neat gadgets. I've had to pleasure of seeing implementations of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (among other technologies, including so really cool Solid State research like you described) that completely blow every web app I have seen in the last 3 years right out of the water. Implementations of these technologies put together by grad students without any other commercial interest other than their degree.<br><br>There is so much more out there, and I think we get so caught up in the muck that we lose focus on a lot of it. Worse, we forget that the only point in any of this, as John pointed out, is to solve problems.<br><br>Solve problems, for people, using technology.<br><br>Either way, great post and I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:32:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "78b54231739cec1bbd916962715fac5e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707750": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I really loved this post. I'd like to point out, though, that I do generally find your posts to be informative and interesting so I think fail might be too strong of a word. What makes me want to just log off and go do something more useful is all the bickering that goes on between some of the \"top\" tech bloggers. I care about ideas, not about personal squabbles. I'll come out and say it -- I don't care if Jason Calacanis is retiring from blogging for whatever reason (frankly, I'm annoyed that I even know the whole story), yet that clogged up my FriendFeed for what seemed like an eternity.<br><br>What worries me is the trickle down effect. People like myself who are very new to the tech blogging scene (though not new to the business) find it difficult to get in on the conversation. So, while the top bloggers begin to all cover the same stories, we end up emulating and only talking about those same exact stories. I blame myself for that though, more than I would blame you or any other blogger.<br><br>Anyway, I just wanted to say that I found this post to be really honest and inspiring.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:35:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "875aefbc2c3a6b6dcba0c16a49ea5c45", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707751": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "That's freaking weird <strong>Robert</strong> because I wrote almost same thing just very short. \"Where is THAT tech news\"<br><br>Anyways great post mate.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:34:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "livecrunch", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707752": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WOW. Great article. The detail was amazing and insights with information was a very good article. Maybe one day I can strive to blog this well. I will start reading more often", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:42:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "f3fef56e7ab002442e00b2fae17af1a2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707753": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post! Now try saying it in 140 characters!:-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:46:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c49a53b052fca27ed343c7544803fbf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707754": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well first off I agree with the tone and focal point of this post.  However, look around, the small old tech school blogger is still out there.   I love reading blogs like that.  The problem is the small blogger goes through life unheard much of the time. Big zero's in the comments section. Less then $10 in the Adsense account. They want to be blogstars.  To do that you have to sell out and get on the corporate rat race wheel and play the myriad games.  Sad really.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_10:54:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "e4530948e1761206554b459988ed3377", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707755": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nobody has failed anybody. I would guess that in the early days of telephone, people talked a lot about telephones and this life-changing new device. Over time, the technology receded and now people talk on the phone about living and working and whatever.<br>I suppose the same will happen with web communications, once regular people--not geeks--reach critical mass. Robert, you can advance that evolution by writing for, and talking with, regular people about the things they need to learn and change to be happy in this complicated world. Thanks for you efforts.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_11:00:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "eedb113fd884d0d8751220a79e0239c0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707756": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi Robert,<br><br>I can do nothing more but agree.<br><br>I'm not going to put into words what a tech blog should be about. But if you'd ask me to give one great example, it would be Mark Hoekstra's <a href=\"http://Geektechnique.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">Geektechnique.org</a>.<br><br>Maybe it's not an allrounder or the most accessible blog to read, but it's about technology and guy who loves it to death.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_11:01:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "f44f88457bd3560c47b3e4b4a607bc72", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707757": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good post, Robert. Too much of what passes itself off as 'tech blogging' these days is boring and uninspired. It's stuff we've all read (or written [gasp]) years ago, just with a slightly different shade of lipstick on the pig.<br><br>It doesn't take much creativity or energy to sit back and rewrite press releases or fire off a screed about what your favorite (or least favorite) tech blogger(s) just posted.<br><br>I'm not sure FriendFeed is the tech holy grail you are seeking, though. Respectfully, I think you were on a better track when you used to keep up your Google Reader list and uncover the most interesting of the gems to blog about here. Speaking for myself, I was more interested in what you blogged about back then versus these days.<br><br>Sure, you could use FF to help out there, but if you're letting your friends/followers primarily dictate what's interesting that's not much better than writing about the top stories on TechMeme or following the digg/reddit pop lists.<br><br>I think part of the Web 2.blow movement that has it all wrong is that being popular and being interesting and/or useful are the same. Sometimes this  might be the case, but not always. As we've seen through gaming these voting sites can be manipulated and thus what's \"interesting\" becomes muddy water.<br><br>And I don't understand the desire to push readers off to some third party, off site comment system either. What one might think is convenient could be very inconvenient to others who might not even know what FriendFeed is, much less how or why they should use it. Tell somebody who isn't a blogger and yet is interested in technology and the web why they should use FriendFeed? Forget you and I, Robert, where is the value add for this type of person?<br><br>I happen to like FriendFeed and find it personally useful (for non-Twitter non-Friendfeed discussions which unfortunately dominate the service), but feel it is getting too much hype, just like Twitter. Someday the reality distortion field clears and we get back to what is truly useful in the world. FriendFeed might be 'cool' but does it have mass market useful application in the world?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_11:22:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "f259169eb5cb73c577261845a24a64c5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707758": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br> This may just be tangentially related but Umair's post today hits on the same thoughts from a 100,000 foot perspective. <a href=\"http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/07/daily_reading_a_12_step_progra_1.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">link</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_11:24:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae6d987c9052dab7fed38015bb5360c6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707759": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi<br>Good afternoon.<br>Could you tell me why my comment about Twitter was not used? It remained in a \"To be moderated\" position and has now disappeared. I am new to blogging so if I have broken some etiquette, it would be useful to know.<br>My comment made reference to me receiving spam via Twitter and linked back to the my original posting which I thought added something to Mr Scoble's blog. Obviously not so sorry about that.<br>Thanking you in advance<br>Cheers", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_11:26:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "6c46247e6a0cc4e3d6bb3b84329327df", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707760": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>I really enjoy the passion of your post(s). Your enthusiasm is contagious, your desire to share the discovered shiny objects is winsome in nature.<br><br>I am excited about The Large Hadron Collider because as an inquisitive human I want to peek under the hood and see the really tiny parts that make up the whole. The Tech Blogging Universe may not set records in size, but without the Explorers tapping furiously on their strings the general public would never know how exciting it is down here. Robert please continue to \"pick\" apart the features of various connective tissues so that someone may make it stronger. Finding the weakness of channels requires you look very close at the pipes, from that perspective it can get pretty remote. Keep digging though, it's clearly in your DNA. You encourage others to play in the sandbox of ideas. Your post prompted so many great comments, discoveries and connections- not a bad life indeed Robert.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_11:48:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "468c7713e58265fc7c7013d201b26e71", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post, Robert!  While I don't think it's as bad as all that, there's certainly an echo chamber.  Good to see you commenting on it.<br><br>It's about *content*.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_11:51:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "6588c82bd645c78b2a952c2950cc0a20", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707762": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm a hardcore techie, my blog runs software I wrote myself, I currently pay the bills by developing both hardware and software, and I've never read the TechMeme front page or the Google news technology section.<br><br>By the time a technology hits one of those it's a shipping product, and I'm developing products in a competitive market place, I don't have the time to wait for things to get all the way through the development cycle before I use them, and if I wanted re-published press releases I'd go to one of the sources for such things.<br><br>There are plenty of *real* tech bloggers out there, and they're publishing schematics and source code and showing pictures of their soldered hacks, along side their pet rabbits.  These are the people doing the innovation, the stuff that will end up on TechMeme in a year or three, but by the time it filters up that far we may as well read about it in the Finance or Lifestyle sections.<br><br>Other commenters have harked back to the days when you were excited about the tablet PCs. One evening several years ago I met you in a parking lot in the South Bay and you showed me why you were so excited about the products you were working with. Those are the sorts of stories that I want to see more of from you, the places where it's someone in the back lot after hours, not the front lobby during business. The times when someone's so jazzed about their technologies that they're going outside the channels of their company to push it. That's what pushes technology forward.<br><br>Let the mainstream journalists rephrase the press releases and represent the agendas of the PR guys, that's what they're good at.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_11:58:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "885af6858c2e07a119830ee58d443796", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707763": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Funny, I was wondering a similar meme recently.<br><br>Basically, I was wondering is Naked Conversations, your book, relevant anymore?<br><br>Should companies, or even people, blog anymore?  Does blogging get lost in the shuffle behind the a listers, behind the \"top x \" post writers, etc?<br><br>Does blogging add value to the company or the individual anymore?<br><br>I'm not a twitter user nor a friendfeed user.  I remember when blog comments were the thing to do.  I still comment, but I noticed conversations are fleeting among the blogosphere.  Twitter and Friend have all caused comments to be scattered across too many areas.  Additionally, the comments are so short on twitter, that I wonder how that adds any value to anyone besides time wasting.<br><br>I see that Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn, etc...  all have walls to leave comments on.  How does that benefit me or you?<br><br>This post, Merlin Mann suggests, seems to hit on the head.  Blogs are becoming impersonal.  <a href=\"http://www.43folders.com/2008/07/21/blog-pimping\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.43folders.com/2008/07/21/blog-pimping</a><br><br>When Blog comments can force Kathy Sierra off the blogosphere, it makes things terrible and harsh.  Who wants to write in that world?<br><br>The other part, authors, used to comment and follow up on comments.  Now, people are too busy with emails, rss feeds, writing trying to catch the next digg, yahoo buzz, reddit wave.<br><br>So, what makes a good tech blogger or a good blogger in general, someone who interacts with tries to make personal communication with their audience.  The rest is just public relations writing masked as a blog.<br><br>I still read 37signals.com/svn/  I follow <a href=\"http://liferemix.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">liferemix.net</a> blogs although that's kind of headline driven.  otherwise, I use techmeme, popurls, and alltop to filter the noise to the popular.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:00:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "84b48f2b664bcaf6f1656b5b3354d410", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707764": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert- This my first reply to your blog.  It's the best of all the rss feeds I receive mainly because of your honesty and accurate self appraisal.  I totally agree with your viewpoint on how tech bloggers have let us down.  I like PCMECH for the same reasons.<br>What is slow blogging?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:21:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "7cc11121548a53639bd4a9a4ec220bb6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707765": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dawn, I couldn't agree more about tech blogger attitudes towards those who \"don't get it.\"<br><br>And I agree with Robert about tech blogs generally being an echo chamber.<br><br>I also agree his commentary on problems with comments, especially on digg.  In my own case, rarely receiving bad comments is one of the benefits of not having a large readership...  but I'd being lying if I said I didn't want to see traffic increase.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:25:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "bc2b79bb3456c528519bf6df3b2440f3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707766": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is a treasure trove, as always. Organize the blog post in topics with headlines throughout the post, etc. It will take twice as long to write (half being editing) but will be more readable to more people and attract more people. Editing just as important as writing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:29:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8a08b2b2efff7daf0db8e851ab41186", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707767": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "At the highest levels, less is more. The 80-20 rule. Expand on the gems and let someone else make their profit on the scraps.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:30:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "e8a08b2b2efff7daf0db8e851ab41186", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707768": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you do this edifying thing you're talking about, I would be more inclined to read your blog. Or anyone else doing the same thing.<br><br>Blogging could (should?) be the antidote to competitive journalism, which in this fast-paced society doesn't take the time to check facts or at least provide a story in its true context.<br><br>Some content labeled as blogs is simply digital so-called journalism.<br><br>It's not that reporting news is in and of itself is bad. I do this for a living. But the competitiveness and the nastiness is what I don't like.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:36:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "6727a9037e7924e55cc2e70aa6f47e4d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707769": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>First, thanks for your honesty and openness. It's refreshing to hear the human behind this screen I'm staring at.  Your post actually gets me excited about the human race and about the tech community.  I hate writing, but your post (nearly) inspires me to write! :)  I look forward to reading more that you have to share.<br><br>Second, you're not an idiot.  Idiots don't recognize their finite knowledge or respect the knowledge and intelligence of people who know more about something than themselves.<br><br>Finally, I had one idea about dealing with the flood of press releases. Perhaps bloggers should clearly identify the source of information.  I believe my journalism classes called this \"attribution.\"  Rather than writing as the source of information, bloggers who want to be taken seriously ought to disclose the sources of information.  Whether that is in a headline (\"Apple Claims To Be Cooler Than You\") or in the lead graph (\"According to a document releases by Apple today, Steve Jobs is bigger than Jesus AND The Beatles\"), sources should be attributed... even yourself (\"I THINK owning an iPhone will increase your happiness by 12 percent\").<br><br>Thanks for your contributions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:40:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "4e00e54c313ccac3d58a9015ce5dc489", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707770": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well my comments on this post on my own blog made TechMeme. Maybe that means the long tail is still getting some attention afterall.<br><br>Thanks for asking the questions Robert. A lot to think about here. Many of the items you bring up would be worth a post and discussion of their own. Comments for example might be worth two - problems with being hard to comment and the idea of people just being nasty little children at times.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:42:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "14cb1b76282f670dc56ddd214781cdea", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707771": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I really like this post - and I tend to agree.<br><br>I write occasionally for bub.blcio.us, and I'm supposed to cover tech. That also includes when Company A buys Company B and so on. The journalist in me cringes at publishing anything before it is confirmed, so a lot of times I'm a little late to the party with announcements. I'm okay with that.<br><br>I have a hard time digging up stories that I really want to write about for bub.blicio.us, because so much of techmeme is mired in Yahoo and Google and Apple. I love Apple but really, I don't care about the big guys. I want to read - and write - about the little guys with the cool new web-based application, whatever that may be.<br><br>Tech blogging is changing, but there are still good bloggers out there who don't care if they aren't on the Techmeme Leaderboard (I could care less) and who search out the real story and ignore the business-y boring stuff. And there are still some great developers out there who haven't hired a huge PR firm and just want to be found.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:43:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "fbe6eb7e36d120a0547d418c94379df4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707772": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Excellent post, Robert--very heartfelt.  Feeling that you deserve to be on the A-List because of ideas you post, but realizing that being on the A-List requires a marathon of blogging, commenting, and almost perpetually being in front of a computer can be frustrating.<br><br>I think you do a good job of exposing the flaws in the current paradigm in this post.  I think eventually the dust will settle and there will be two types of blogs:  the news-based, reactionary blogs, and the thoughtful, innovative blogs (or what I like to call the \"good blogs\").  It seems the blogosphere is going through growing pains right now, and what it will grow up to be remains to be seen.<br><br>Once again, great post.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:51:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "283b8cef7a285ecd06b5a1cf1c98daa7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707773": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br>I appreciate what you are saying, and am glad that others share the same opinion as myself. What happened to being the guys who always had some tech trick that seemed like magic to the uninitiated? The joy of tech for me is showing that magic to others and getting them interested in what's out there too, and lately we have all become business whores a little bit. I don't know how it happened, but I am glad that you have seen it too. I look forward to the future content coming from this blog.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:53:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "9643133d15e9ca77c30dff1a7afa5ebf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707774": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How about a tech blog focused on real world effect on your life?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_12:59:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "d66275c81eda72d89b5633602bd27b62", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707775": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Good post and great comment stream. A couple reactions:<br><br>\"Bickering\" and the like (from a commenter) - I think this more than anything has caused me to substantially reduce the amount of tech/geek/gadget/etc blogs I subscribe to. So often otherwise good blogs and eloquent writers degenerate into name calling and finger pointing - Arrington did this, Winer yelled that, Calacanis spun this, Scoble claimed that, etc. My view of podcasting is still stained thanks to reading all the Curry vs. Winer stuff years ago. It gets old - we all have enough stress and drama in our lives, we look to tech blogs to talk about...tech.<br><br>Tech blogs as PR outlets - having seen this first hand (worked on a PR team for a major tech company, reaching out to bloggers), I can say you are 100% spot on. Some of the highest trafficked tech blogs are nowadays indistinguishable from \"traditional\" news sources, albeit faster to the story and with more snark. They want (demand in many cases) the scoop or exclusivity, as that first 2 min of a story garner all the traffic. And traffic drives ad revenue, which is really all that matters. They love embargoes so long as it gets them \"in\" on early news or reviews, get invited to the cool parties and treated like royalty, etc. It's all part of the game, which has taken a chunk of the fun out of blogs as you mentioned. It also turned me off a lot of them when I jumped out of that game - why read them when they all print mostly the same story? I mostly read bloggers now with strong opinions and fun angles, with an occasional techmeme wander to see if anything big is happening.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:06:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "f4bb7bd1f83d193f1125edc4f30a9de2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707776": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I resonate with being attracted to the latest and greatest while missing what we already have.  How about a tech blog on how to use the standard (aka old) stuff better?  We only use 30% of an apps abilities because we don't dig deep and think creatively.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:07:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "3441ef658e99be9eb95dc486361226d7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707777": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm just a technology blog reader rather than writer (I've tried starting my own tech blog more than once and realize I just don't have the motivation to write daily, let alone multiple times a day), but this is an interesting set of observations. I wonder if tech blogging is \"failing\" because it's succeeded: namely, that it's succeeded in mostly supplanting those expensive weekly publications like Infoworld and PC Week that, a decade ago, did all the \"serious\" news reporting anad analysis. To stay on top of things in the most fast-paced parts of the tech industry now, you don't read the top magazines, you read the top blogs. But as that's been recognized, the blogs attract the same kind of attention--both kind and quality--that the 'zines did. Coverage on TechCrunch is as valuable as coverage in Infoworld was.<br><br>Unlike Rodrigo, however, I'm dubious that tools like Friendfeed are \"what blogging needs to be saved,\" at least yet. That's for a reason that you touch on--it's like turning on a firehose. I only subscribe to *seven people* on the site and it borders on too much for me to keep up with. If I subscribed to just a few dozen, I'd damn well *have* to find a way to be a professional blogger because I wouldn't have time for my programming job. I think Friendfeed is onto something with the idea of social networking aggregation, to be sure, but if a company goes mainstream with social networking sometime in the next decade--by which I mean \"gathers an audience past the obsessively connected,\" which I don't think even Twitter has done yet--it'll be because they've crossed the next bridge past good aggregation tools: good mediation tools.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:13:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "18b515cae379d4333296db7121b80458", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707778": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There are some new models out there... I humbly submit my new project, <a href=\"http://www.sidecutreports.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sidecut Reports /a&gt;, where we take deep-dive looks at subjects like WiMax, Net Neutrality... rather than follow the headlines of the day.</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:15:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "bf8c167cf3350901beb99737d0ad7173", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707779": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow! You covered a lot of ground in that post, so I'll just limit myself to the first one, tech blogging focusing more on business issues.<br><br>Obviously the purpose of a blog is going to depend upon the capabilities, or lack thereof, of the individual blogger. For example, when Twitter was having huge uptime problems in the spring, I tended to focus more on Twitter's then-lack of communication then on any technical issues. The reason was simple - I do not have the technical knowledge to state whether Ruby on Rails was, or was not, the cause of Twitter's problems. (My last professional programming job was in Hypertalk.)<br><br>Whether you're taking a technical approach, a business approach, or another approach to the topic, it helps if you can either (a) add original content, or (b) feature content which your readers may not know about.<br><br>Business blogging in and of itself is not bad, but business blogging which regurgitates press releases doesn't help anybody.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:40:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "adccbf6dcb403dc665707e8c18896a04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707780": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Welcome back, Scoble. It's good to see you energized. This energy that you're putting out is the reason I started following you in the first place. Keep it up. You're doing great things.<br><br>All the best,<br>Sally", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:44:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "faa017357646f63683c166b5756b4d53", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707781": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow. This isn't just about tech blogging, even though that's your specialty. Same could be applied to other interests.<br><br>Robert, could you do something to rescue those 14 year-olds you mention? They are, after all, the future. I think if you carved a little time to speak at schools, you could sew a few good seeds. They'll be adults in only a few years. They could use the in-person inspiration (lord knows they're missing that I'm afraid). Perhaps you already do this. If not, please think about it.<br><br>You're one hell of a blogger. Off to FF.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:52:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "19a0f7b2edfd72f69a401fe2e41054d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707782": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I would love it if when new cool items come out all the bloggers could link to the source website and just a comment a bit like the comments on Google reader<br>And this was the aggregated using the source URL so I get to see their views and opinions but it was all tried together as a single article/Aggregation view.<br><br>We need a new RSS value for source URL this would work a bit like add a keyword/tag for an event in Flickr etc.<br><br>Wish to different views but I do wish to have aggregated.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:52:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "6eca4708c14b4aae041335e251dd3b12", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707783": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I completely agree with your view point. Tech blogging/reading is becoming a bit boring these days, just because whatever new thing comes up, the view point, comparison strategy is same.<br><br>If we take some article written 3 months back on some new web 2.0 startup and compare with something similar that came up now, we find them almost similar. I have also reduced the number of feeds that I used to subscribe.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_13:56:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "veetrag", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707784": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I know that I have tapered off blogging since the hacker storm in April/May, it just doesn't feel right, more of a psychological effect, plus everything seems to be the same over time. There is only so much enthusiasm you can have over your 20th zombie brain sucking super poke share with your friends on facebook review that you can do. My 2 cents, but like many of the bloggers I know, we will eventually come back after being gone a while and seeing what else is going on, but please goodness, no more facebook apps, I wanna see something that will blow my socks off.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:00:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "7604593868636a820402c67350a8cd16", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707785": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks for this post Robert,   usually I'm  not the biggest fan of your stuff, but this was spot on!<br><br>There's nothing inherently wrong with covering tech business, but I agree with ya,  a lot of the blogs out there will cover EVERY story just because.   There's also the problem of bloggers who will do and say anything to get hits.<br><br>On my site, I tend to just cover what interests me.   That strategy isn't going to get me to the top of the techmeme leaderboard, but it's guaranteed to make sure that whatever I write is quality<br><br>I'm always going to do better work if I'm interested in the final product.<br><br>No matter how many PR people contact me, I just follow the stories that interest me.   If there were more sites like that, I think we'd have a more honest and probably more interesting blogosphere.  Keep up the good work!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:03:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "51770c89a06cc38272bdcdc082deea85", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707786": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow, I stumbled across this through a Twitter post. If this is how you really feel, I just might start reading and watching you again. I quit awhile back because I just felt like I was being hammered all the time.<br><br>Best of luck on finding what works. I will be watching.<br><br>Chuck", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:11:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "272331c7fcbcfc1be5b5cfdb5f9a655c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707787": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "your complaints about comments are obsolete. just shut up and install disqus already! :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:12:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "0ba465efa88b017a6a1d1f260d0465ed", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707788": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "running out the door but had to say this is one of your best posts scoble.<br><br>aloha, cw", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:13:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "733f44ac63e33efc1f7d7095d9194138", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707789": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree.  For me, it has become almost a chore to go through my feeds every day.  Why is this?  What happened?  Everyone is writing about the same things and the tech blogosphere is becoming increasingly stale.<br><br>Everyone needs to start having fun again.  Tech blogging isn't just a job for some, it is a passion.  Find that fire that's dying within.  Excite people!  If you don't, someone more interesting will come along to replace you.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:16:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "ba144f4dad239e156463aaa4c94e0fe0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707790": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm at work right now, so I can't comment for too long as I've spent too much time reading this post. This is the best posting I've seen in a while from a tech blogger. You've hit a nerve, and that excites me. I'm sick of hearing about the newest social networks and the latest deals in Silicon Valley. As you know, social networks work for different people.<br><br>As you say, tech blogs have left their primary audience to focus on things that the average geek doesn't care about. Thanks Scoble for a great post.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:17:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "a40629802edd2486e926b786a2d6b5f5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707791": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'll tell you what, Robert. If you can live up the promise that you're implying here (to make an earnest effort to move back to your roots) then maybe I'll start subscribing to your blog again. I'm a marketer, I blog about marketing, and I read tons of blogs about marketing. Watching Apple's PR team string tech bloggers along gets tiresome when I just want to, as you put it, find out about new technologies to make my life better.<br><br>Right now I can't find a lot of good \"hey, check out this cool service\" articles from the mainstream tech blog articles because it's all anchored around the vicious cycle of buying into the PR process.<br><br>So I'll tell you what: you start writing about cool new services beyond the latest iPhone app, beyond \"whatever's hot now,\" and I'll subscribe again. FriendFeed, iPhone, Twitter - they're all over-exposed and well known; tell me what I don't already know.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:19:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "42781e170b354e159121ba154ed4af9b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707792": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, it really seemed to fly apart at the seams when the \"A-listers\" noticed they were the A-listers, and while all friendly and in fun at the onset, turned into a frenzy that not only took up way too much airtime, but even hurt some folks along the way. Funny thing is, this isn't new, either. Same kind of thing happened 10-12 years ago, it just wasn't as close to the mainstream media as this round has been, and so the phenom was largely overlooked. However, it was just that (IMHO) that set the stage for what would be known as \"dot.com\", now forever tainted, but similarly driven by speculators, VC groups and such, kind of like what may very well happen with \"Web 2.0\".<br><br>I'm glad Scoble is able to examine what he's doing while he's doing it; it's one of the more outstanding things I first noticed about him. Mostly, though, what really got me following is the endless exuberance over cool stuff and the people who think up cool stuff that is the solid thread. Is there money in it? Probably enough, but it's obvious Scoble's motivation isn't the cash (but it never hurts), and you really don't have to be friends with people to be friendly to them. The genuinely genteel approach he uses works very well across a wide variety of people, and raises the signal level above the noise.<br><br>One of these days I'm going to sort out my own experiences over the last 15+ years with the 'Net, from BBSs to a direct SLIP connection to the San Jose hub and all the blah blah in between then and now. 12 years ago we were video conferencing via CUSeeMe with people all around the world over a 9600 baud modem! Talk about your early adopters. So when I finally get it blogged someplace, you can blame Robert Scoble for reminding me how happy and exciting being around cool people doing cool things in and around the the ever-meshing, always morphing tech/life/art world can be if you stay focused on what you love about it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:21:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "41b5ee789cde2b110830de12682fc2b0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707793": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Phil said:  \"Robert, could you do something to rescue those 14 year-olds you mention? They are, after all, the future.\"<br><br>Ze Frank recently said, \"I'm trying to inject some humanity into this...\" after a suggestion that perhaps Digg and YouTube commenting was becoming the training ground for young people in 'how to behave online'. Not encouraging. And unfortunately, it's not just 14-year olds.<br><br>Michael Arrington has made the point many times that the 'relentless background of hate' in his part of the tech world is not sustainable. But this post is one more example of why I continue to admire and be inspired by Robert Scoble.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:33:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "8e25ce83275debdbe2e4e1e40eb41bcb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707794": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wow!  Clearly I've come a bit late to this post; everyone has pretty darn well said what I wanted to say.<br><br>But nonetheless, I'll add this:<br>Robert, I have gained a lot of additional respect for you with this post.  I've not always agreed with your take on blogging and online communications (in fact, I've pretty strongly disagreed with you at times), but I found myself nodding my head in agreement again and again with you in this long but spot-on entry.<br><br>Thanks for the having the selflessness and thoughtfulness to post this, self-criticisms and all.  Your points are worth reflecting upon by ALL of us who blog, all of us who read blogs, all of us who reward both the good and bad in the blogosphere with our time, our comments, and our respect.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:45:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "75c7dae24bcd436235dd5ca728cef066", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707795": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yay! Lots of good ideas here. But will they be implemented or was this just a wild rant?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:47:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "68476c31a556a73762530f0aa460b662", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707796": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>This is a (very long) but excellent post. I want to thank you for writing it. I am someone who currently earns a full-time living from blogging, but would consider myself far from an a-lister, which I am OK with, and in some ways prefer because I can do a little more of what I like and not what other people think I should.<br><br>The portion about the PR and the same stories hitting at the same time really hit me, as its a topic that has been bugging me personally lately.<br><br>See, I wanted to get to a point of earning a full time income from blogging and that was the easiest path, so I to have become wrapped up in that same cycle and have been looking for a way to move past it, and also encourage the other writers on the site where I am a senior editor to do the same.<br><br>While I personally think FriendFeed is not all that its cracked up to me, maybe its just because I have not spent enough time on it. Perhaps because I have been to busy covering the \"tech news\" and have had less time to be a blogger.<br><br>And, PS, Evenote is awesome, especially the iPhone app.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:54:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "88e7c6abf94f0d5baa4a45f9bce27d71", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707797": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Y'know... Digg has *always* had horrible comments. I think the average level of spelling and reading comprehension might have improved somewhat in recent months, actually.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_14:56:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "13f93ce1e022ce7016613acefb30baa0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707798": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&gt;&gt;&gt;Look at all the stories on TechMeme or Google News\u2019 tech section.<br><br>Well there's your -- and their -- frikking problem right there.  Stop doing the circle jerk and get out to blog that DON'T do all-tech all-the-time.  Man, when the economic sh*t hits the fan, you'll all be crying in front of your HDTVs.  Suckers.<br><br><a href=\"http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_15:38:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "462088a7f1468f209050aeb800035abb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707799": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scoble.  Thank you.  I'm sure it was not easy to write.<br><br>1. Seth Godin talked about something similar.  It sounds like what you're describing is the \"Passion Pop Gulf\" (<a href=\"http://tinyurl.com/5zgmc7\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://tinyurl.com/5zgmc7</a>)<br><br>2. Marc Andreessen is the best tech blogger, hands down.  He teaches people how to build companies, lead, and make the tough choices.<br><br>3. You remain valuable to the young guy.  Take it from a new comer to the field (25 yr. old, about 1 year in).  I watch your Fast Company TV religiously.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_15:51:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "8cde143a93f1eac35a103d13beab9775", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707800": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "From some of the most recent posts I see on your friendfeed, it is really in line with the book I just started, ironically the same day as reading your post.  The Pirate's Dilemma, by Matt Mason.<br><br><a href=\"http://thepiratesdilemma.com/about-the-book\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://thepiratesdilemma.com/about-the-book</a><br><br>The first chapter is about the punk revolution, and the peoples' desire to break out from the status-quo.  How this ultimately affected many industries from music to tech to retail.  Mass media and the underdog individual are an important part of the story.  Check it out, there is a PDF you can download on his website.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_16:25:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "88f1df877c87be16003e23958b1116a5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707801": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It occurs to me that if you need to monetize your blog via pageviews, that's the whole game right there.  You can't afford not to chase the minute-by-minute scoop, quantity over quality, and the leaderboards at hubs which drive traffic.  That's where the money comes from, and most (not all, but most) niches simply cannot be effecitvely monitized to make up for an order of magnitude fewer eyeballs.<br><br>More contemplative, more relaxed, more in-depth blog conversations may flow from when we see a resurgance of writing as a labor of love, not a means of supporting one's self.  When your postcount is a means of putting food on the table, that can't help but effect the output.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_16:28:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "f0eff9056d9640cebe44379b7784d704", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707802": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If we ever meet, Scoble, I'll owe you a drink.<br><br>I've been feeling that something wasn't right in blogging--and tech blogging in particular--for a while now, and I think you  might have just hit the nail on the head as to what it is.  The coolest thing about technology isn't the glitzy packaging and the blinking lights, it's the way that it changes peoples' lives.  In fact, this post goes a long way toward summing up why I've decided to have another go at blogging (shameless plug:  First post today!).<br><br>I may be the freshest face on the social Web block, but I've considered the Web home for as long as there's been one.  And bloggers, columnists, analysts, and activists like you have done a lot to build what I love so much.<br><br>Here's looking forward to the coming months.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_16:39:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "81c90d17c6e57b78c70a9ce19c7df78f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707803": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think there are some valid points here but a lot of what I read here is the problem with the scobleizer blog, not the problem with blogging.<br><br>For example, you write \"Many of us can seem out of touch with the real world. Do we write about all the forclosures going on? No, and while we\u2019re waiting in line for iPhones and buying the latest games, that can seem pretty out of place right now while people are losing their homes or their life savings.\"<br><br>Well, no, on tech blogs there's not a lot of coverage of foreclosures. But, on blogs like <a href=\"http://www.researchrecap.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.researchrecap.com</a>, we started writing about subprime related problems before the first iPhone came out.<br><br>You write: \"Tech blogging has become way too controlled by PR agents.\". Well, yes, if your tech blog is focused on trying to \"break\" tech news. But many blogs are about insights, not just news.  I think Read/Write Web is a great example and I hope that my own Content Matters fits that description as well.  I get pestered by some PR types (not a fraction of the ones you hear from) but unless it's something that I think my readers would care about, I don't write it.<br><br>You write: \"So, off I go to FriendFeed and Twitter where there are real people who don\u2019t care about the business but who are just looking to use technology to have more fun, be more productive, or do something more interesting with their lives.\"<br><br>I use Twitter and Friendfeed, but also find that it's a much more insular community than the blogging world. So, it's all about the fail whale and waiting in line for iPhone 2.0 or, perhaps, seeing the Batman movie or riding in Jason's Tesla demo.<br><br>There are hundreds of compelling blogs out there providing interesting insights. It's not the medium that's broken, its just the noise that many of the tech bloggers are now generating that makes it harder to hear.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_16:59:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "ed5563786284075f3d69a610e63e98be", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707804": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In spite of what you say about comments, you seem to have quite a few right here. Also, I am not a tech blogger, I am an art blogger with a mix of all kinds of stuff that is personal but ultimately there to increase my brand visibility. At least that is what I tell my bookkeeper who is very aware of my bank balance and my time spent online. As a small producer of hand made things, I have to think about business and the blog-sphere is where I come for free, expert advice about productivity, tech news and community development, which is where I see all business heading. Don't be too jaded, Robert. It is all just beginning.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_17:19:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "5506938732833405d6f67d9f7a6d7fe5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707805": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can't praise this post enough -- it's the most insightful, thoughtful piece you've written.<br><br>And this is coming from a guy who thought you were the \"People Magazine\" of tech bloggers, at best.<br><br>Great work, and I look forward to more of the same in the coming months.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_17:18:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "e7a9e8293930447e527f6b49f96e7ff9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707806": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I find I spend less and less time on and worrying about what the A list blogs say, unless it's a unique post about something I find personally relevant.<br><br>I love discovering new ways normal folks and real businesses are using new technology to improve life and business.  Robert, you're one of the lead scouts, a kid in an expanding candy store with the ability to take the complex and simplify it for non-geeks ... explain how tasty and challenging that new jawbreaker is.<br><br>Most interesting thing I did today, besides spend time with a client and discover ways to bring her dreams to life, was enjoy Chris Brogans Webinar on 'Who Owns the Brand'.  Watching live video discussions interlaced with real-time Twitter questions and comments ... centered on a rally interesting topic ... now THAT was an hour I\"m glad I spent in front of my computer.<br>And tomorrow, I\"m going to interview an ice cream shop owner, use my Nokia N95 to do some Qik-ing (learned that from you Robert), post about his secret sauce, why people are so passionate about it.  Can't wait.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_17:20:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "5b12b97c9acf484b10a3cb452151bf7a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree that the popular blogs are often too corporate.  But it's not all that way.  Many ask me how I find time to write mine.  It's called 24/7, baby.  I read everything.  Without a reader tool.  I'm not that disciplined to check one aggregator every day consistently.  I like the surprise of finding an obscure reference to my beloved Big 4.  Like by a KPMG intern in Malaysia who posts pics of a drunken KPMG party with obligatory lap dances by the girl interns in the same post where she laments the fact that not all of them will get the chance after graduation to work for the louts. But I admit I do have help from Google Alerts so I at least know when my subjects are written about.<br><br>I just write about the same four firms, over and over, in what's been called a \"refreshingly unexpected\" way. I've also been called a \"bitch\" who \"talks shit\". And I'm a girl who wears stilettos.  No one else really writes about these things in the same way that I do. Call me old school, but my blog has an audience and it's growing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_17:45:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "58e9d6b76f25ad51b380ddccb564ea68", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707808": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Like the 100+ people before me I also want to thank you for writing this post Robert. I see the stuff you talked about everyday and I think you are dead on.<br><br>The \"tech blogs\" are no longer focusing on the \"tech\" and instead of looking more and more at the \"business\" because that's the lowest common denominator among the readers. We can all easily understand business news but real tech news has a much smaller audience.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_18:07:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "3e60fc9bc7b3c1555324b2c7d1de17a9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "More lifehacker stuff? Yes please. Lets get geeky and find new cool things instead of rechewing the same old rumor gum.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_18:21:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "764ca79a68f6a53c4366e63001835e79", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707810": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"[W]hile we\u2019re waiting in line for iPhones and buying the latest games, that can seem pretty out of place right now while people are losing their homes or their life savings.\"<br><br>Do what brings you joy. Not standing in line isn't going to save those folks' homes one iota.<br><br>Cheers, Neil<br><a href=\"http://www.cyclelogicpress.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.cyclelogicpress.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_18:48:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "d4908a35ab906513a372015d650866e6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707811": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hello, Robert.  First off, not everyone that disagrees with you is a jerk.  I'm about to disagree with you, and I am by no means a jerk.  What I am is a businesswoman who looks at social media with a critical eye and tries to figure out how each app/environment/flavor that comes along could be leveraged to be more productive in business, to enable people to do their jobs better/smarter/faster.  That's my job, and that's what I look for when it comes to social media.<br><br>Second - how has tech blogging failed me?  Well, everyone keeps talking about the iPhone, which I have determined is NOT all that, much less a bag of chips, and I'm sick of it.  It clogs up my Google Reader something awful!  Please, make it stop!  :D", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_19:19:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "BellTinkR", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707812": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>I used to really enjoy what you were doing at Microsoft &amp; Channel 9. Sometimes I wish you'd go back to that. Except I still want to see transcripts and/or better sound, because (as someone with hearing problems) I could barely understand many of the interviews.<br><br>And the comments were better back then, too. How can you bring that back? Go deep again, talk with the people doing stuff, not the people selling stuff. Don't worry about the next big thing, or about kudos/criticisms of newly launched products. Talk to people who are doing stuff. Show us what they are up to - and let the other folks pick the trends, write the kudos, write the criticisms.<br><br>Go back and watch your own video on the Kindle. Ask yourself if you really wanna be that guy. Then go back and look at when you interviewed Jeff Snover, and ask if you wanna be more like *that* guy.<br><br>I know which one I'm rooting for!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_19:19:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "1402dd4895e7d8543543938710bc22be", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707813": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "A refreshing read!  Thanks for being so candid!  How did we ever get into a culture where \"yee with the most tweets wins\"??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_19:26:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "08bd60d9aee83dad7f5b00d7d34c77ff", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707814": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great post. I've been working on a site focused on the unappreciated facets of the world of design for the past year and I've struggled to both keep up with quality content generation and post frequency due to the issues you discuss. Tech sites like TechCrunch and even Engadget or Gizmodo and many other practice in such a time to market space that they are forced to publish early and often to have potential bragging rights. This can often hurt the quality of the content. The other aspect of this story is that with financial markets and corporate politics fluctuating as they do, the business stories tend to outnumber the stories about the new widgets or services and are therefore easier to latch onto for a quick headline.<br><br>Try not to be too hard on yourself. Posts like yours above that offer perspective and a bit of humility are few and far between. It never hurts to take a step back and look at the true purpose/focus of your content. It could be said that the whole nature of tech news is always going to involve some frivality - most people don't find these shiny gadgets as essential as those \"in the know\"... Keep up the good work.<br><br>-Luke.<br><a href=\"http://www.designkloud.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.designkloud.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_19:34:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "ec018400735999576c2c282c752c611e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707815": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>Please get behind the camera again and away from tech for tech sake alone.  Just as people find it fascinating to watch a \"star\" cook, chat, or generally opine on things unrelated to their profession -- so too this can apply to the general coverage of tech.<br><br>I watched a video segment of Jay Leno in his garage and read follow up articles on his fascination with cars.  I would never have watched or read something about how he tells jokes for a -living-.<br><br>Nerds and geeks are interesting but there is no Barbara Walters for this medium.  Everything has been dissolved into an elixir of buzzwords and business drama.<br><br>Can you be Bahbwah Wawah?<br><br>-J", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_20:08:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "704eb78a1937b2a8920957c2c2df413d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707816": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Scoble,  First lemme clear teh air. You ahve tons of followers and if any of those actually felt that you were failing them, woudl we still be following you. Hell with the bad comments that you get - even Mac OS gets those ;-) [Did you just see what MS has begun saying about Vista that it has far less vulnerabilities than any other OS and all that - heck, tomorrow if I give an OS that does not connect to Internet everytime without my permission and it wont download a file without me clicking YES over a hundred times, I would call it \"very\" secure but thats not what it is meant to be like]<br><br>Dont bother as to why you are unable to follow up on shiny objects two weeks down the lane. COme on - its teh tech industry and we can expect things to be stagnated. We like to see new tings coming really fast and thrashing out the old. We like staying updated about the new and not necessarily the old things. Isn't it one of the many reasons why Mac OSX is beter than anything Windows. The duration between Vista and Windows 7 was enough for Apple to lauinch 2 OSs and that means that they were/are much ahead and its Windows doing teh catching up. Similarly, when blogs like techcrunch and say yours talk suddenly about what you heard and what you saw[referring to WWT], it brings in interest in us readers and thats what is prime. We are all fine with your posts - cant be happier. or lets say, we are in need of 10 scoble's updating scobleizer - yes 10 updating one blog. Its not the info overload, its not you failing us - trust me.<br><br>ps: The Apple/MS comparison is inevitable you see. One stands for latest stuff soon out of the box and the other is just outdated n all that. When was iPhone design started tell me and did you hear about teh Zune phone? nah! Apple is much ahead and we want to stay much ahead with others doing the catch-up. So, there is nothing like the follow-up syndrome you should get into.<br><br>You asked what we read - for me, I read a very few blogs but then, I dont follow Gizmodo/Engadget for the Gizmos - I love to read <a href=\"http://DVICE.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">DVICE.com</a> for the latest in gadgets and crazy stuff and according to me, it satisfies \"my\" needs. I dont follow techcrunch or crunchgear other than have them as a widget on my iGoogle page but I follow you using Google Reader and my friends would vouch for the fact that I keep sharing your posts everytime I really like something and want others to read. In short, we readers would read what aligns to our though process and to teh pace with which we want to stay updated - you dont have to change anything just because you think you have failed us. It might be just a few whom you failed - forget them because you cant please everyone all the time. Today if you get back to WWT after say you ee something nice on your monitor, you think we all might love to read about it - I really doubt that ;-)<br><br>Keep scribbling..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_21:29:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "3452e226d5d71e152eb7145968642c0d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707817": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's pretty simple. There are people who don't run businesses. They have nothing to promote in their blogs and provide technical content and commentaries.  I started blogging four years ago and had nothing to sell - just pure technical stuff.<br><br>Two years ago I became a partner in a company, and we created a blog on our business Web page. That blog is a mix of technical stuff and ads of our training.<br>I turned the other blog into a personal one. 80% of that blog is my observations of IT. But once in a while I use it too to announce some events that are important to our business.   I don't see anything wrong with it.<br><br>I don't publish there any PR announcements of other companies even though I receive lots of such emails - just delete them.<br><br>As long as I'm not bored with blogging, I'll keep doing it. Tried twitter for a little over a month, but it seems to be a waste of time. Some people just write something like I'm now at this location. Great. Let's tell this to the entire world. Noise. If you don't have anything to say, just leave the keyboard alone. Lots of junk there and Twitter is the most unstable software I've ever seen so far.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-22_23:34:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "e3c7b634c95295bc2b636d97ac0321e7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707818": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Nice. I agree sooo much. A return to real content, real values. It might just catch on.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_00:21:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9eb552a75181e0928893ecf4ff5d6aa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707819": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>I just got around to reading this, and it almost brought me to tears with how right you are.<br><br>What do you care about? Not just the shiny objects, but how have they changed your life?<br><br>You have a job. This isn't your job. Write about you, your family,  your interests, what you care about. Have a conversation, and I guarantee the less you engage in the \"tech blogosphere\" and the more I see of the guy I spent a week in DC with, you'll be on the right track.<br><br>What excites YOU?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_01:32:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "98440694bc9208fba43c88865b0fbb6b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707820": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In short:<br><br>The larger bloggers have become exactly what they claimed not to be. Some of the larger blogs are businesses, no different than the NYTimes or any other medium.<br><br>The focus has been on expanding distribution, be it via the new tools that enhance the blogging medium or some other method (Twitter, FriendFeed, etc.).<br><br><br><br>Focus has been on friends (twitter, facebook, friendfeed, etc.). This is the old quantity over quality argument...<br><br><br>Tech blogs, in particular, all tend to gravitate towards the same topics. See below:<br><br>Microsoft xxx<br>Google yyy<br>Twitter zzz<br>Yahoo and Microsoft xxx, yyy, zzz<br>Apple aaa, Iphone this.<br><br>This is honestly the first post of yours I've read in a bit, for a wide variety of reasons. If some of the tech bloggers focused on the reason(s) why they started blogging to begin with, I am certain that many things would change for the better (simply for the love of talking about the things that they love) . Right now, and I say this with all honesty, the average person probably questions the honesty of many of the blogs and/or the intent behind a post of any sort.<br><br>And, without sounding like a complete ass, the average person only cares about the following:<br><br>1. Does it make my life simpler?<br>2. Does it help me keep in contact with the ones I love?<br>3. Does it make my life better?<br>4. Can I still send email?<br><br>Too many of the technologies launched these days are more advanced than the average person cares to use. I have a wife, one  that is not a techie at all, and she questions why we spend so much time on things not connected to establishing real relationships with real people. She almost crapped her pants when two of my friends, and yours truly, were stuck on laptops not talking to one another whilst in the lush beauty of Koh Samui, Thailand.<br><br>Even if she (my wife)  isn't as tech smart as I am, I am starting to actually question if she might be smarter than I am.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_02:01:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "be63e1564bdf12ecd57ec2960d544f6f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707821": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Find me anything that hasn't been overtaken by business interests.  Hell, they're about to rename Wrigley Field!!!<br><br>Other facts:<br>- search engines really love blogs,<br>- search engines love comments even more,<br>- a lot of people are looking for an angle to get heard above the \"noise\",<br>- publishing tools have never been easier to use.<br><br>i.e. the problems are just beginning and the only current solutions require \"un-democratizing\" the Web.  there is no easy short-term fix.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_03:27:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "07188176c8fc019776247e50b6ed29c2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707822": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Several good catches here, Robert. Applause from this quarter. Don't beat yourself up for covering new tech toys when there're economic problems going on, though. That's not the problem. I think you're on the right track when you're concerned about the lack of follow-up to early reports, and the general lack of depth.<br><br>Go ahead and do the early reports, but come back with more later. As to the folks getting on daily with Win2K/etc., I think a realistic assessment of where the new stuff gets us with respect to that is something worth commenting on. I often find myself asking where I stand now with my present systems vs. my Kaypros of years ago. There are a lot of places I can easily point out real-world results showing my present situation is better--but not everywhere, and its worthy of some concern and reflection.<br><br>My gray Win laptop is the one with the tattered old \"Linux, It's not just for breakfast any more\" sticker on the lid. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_03:49:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "04065930cac02fc0ca051ddce31678b0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707823": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This article is *exactly* like the conversation we've been having amongst the founders of Crictor.co.il. I don't want to talk about business. I want to talk about technology, the juicy, hard-core, how-the-heck-did-you-guys-DO-that?! questions and the what-else-can-we-do-with-this questions and the sociological questions of how all this stuff is changing us, changing our societies and changing life as we know it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_03:53:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "721c584d3cc4bc2a3862595b75653094", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707824": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi, Robert. You've once again proved yourself as one of the rare people able to frankly reevaluate yourself and your direction, and, make it public. I respect that most about you. Tho' it's not the only thing you've got going, of course.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_13:21:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "e4406a43cf48b2336aa3e75ace5be914", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707825": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I actually read every letter, periods, and commas, which I seldom do nowadays because there are just too much content to absorb and get updated with.<br><br>I can relate to most of what you've said, and I can imagine the rest.  Been there, done that.  It was the past weeks that I also started thinking about blogging in general, not just for myself but for everyone.  It evolved, but just like you said, it evolved to become just another medium for PR Agents.<br><br>As someone who also acts as a PR Agent (on an unofficial level), I am guilty to that practice.  Shape the bloggers to be a PR tool, no more and no less.  But ask me, do I allow it on my blog?  Not much (I used to).  I realized, there are just too many sites and blogs out there who are doing the same thing, why follow?  And I don't blog to become their PR tool.<br><br>Also true that most A tech bloggers caters to the Western World, where most of the English speaking nations are.  Here in the Eastern Hemisphere - ASEAN, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Oceania, we are mostly ignored.  Yes, most of us can't relate with all the Apple stuff being blogged (I ignore them all, I don't even care about iPhone).  Only few English speaking Easterners care about Apple.  Yes it is a good product - but \"we already know that\", anything else we don't know?<br><br>Sadly, as much as we want to cover that \"anything else we don't know\", we do not have access to that as much as you guys in the West have.  In this side of the world, it is all about politics and we are tired of it.<br><br>So can we all or most of us go back to the \"golden years\" of blogging?  It is about LIFE.  Go back to it and let's retrace AND enhanced it for the future.<br><br>Are you in?  Or are you out?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_08:46:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "Laibcoms", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707826": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, In the possibly related posts there is a 404 on the \"Why I Blog\" link<br>the link which is at <a href=\"http://metadatta.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/why-i-blog/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://metadatta.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/why-i...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_09:07:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d86a47f75be4818a7d8da5b2d22db6c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707827": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is why I continue to post on <a href=\"http://Ajaxian.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ajaxian.com</a>. It allows me to focus on the technology, and not the other stuff (with the odd bit of politics that sneaks in due to standards work and the fact that humans are involved.)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_09:19:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "a04089889d2dc0e83d349b71a377f239", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707828": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert : maybe you're just realizing that you've got to do something for the *community* - not to say *the World* ;-)<br>See, you and me we're born the same day same year. It's time for our generation to prepare the ground for our children' s children, don't you think ?<br><br>ps : what a tremendous step forward you've made between Milan' s birth day and today, right ?...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_10:31:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "b4e7f23b7839b4227a5bdece65d70637", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707829": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I disagree with Scoble. If you take a look at our publication you will see that most of our users do leave comments on articles.<br><br>TL - <a href=\"http://offur.com/BetterThanTechCrunch\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://offur.com/BetterThanTechCrunch</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_10:59:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "9825addca4759ce26fbd3cf4bd432fb3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707830": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thank you so much for this! I subscribe to you on FriendFeed because I value your opinion and comments.   While I'm not really a 'techie', I really enjoy learning about new technology and gadgets.  I have also noticed the same info and rarely read any of my RSS feeds, but find myself going to Feedly,  and FriendFeed for my news.  I love that you said, and saw on this post, you're getting rid of the jerks! Kindness, tolerance and respect go a long way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_10:59:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "316d22b44fc52fc15c3fd04c9d3ffd45", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707831": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Your entire article sounds more like a PR pitch for FriendFeed than anything and this is one of the major problems with bloggers these days.<br><br>They write advertisements for products and sites while trying to disguise them as articles. Blogs such as Techcrunch have become infomercials.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_12:09:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "0808eff49b02363528e6160f55d68f34", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707832": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Our success at AGORACOM came from turning financial discussion forums (far worse than blog comments) on their head by handing moderation control back to the members.<br><br>A reputation system (votes by other members + site activity) determines the ranking of every member on the site. The higher the ranking, the greater authority to delete posts and even terminate members.<br><br>As such, we now have hundreds of highly-ranked and trusted members providing moderation on the site.<br><br>It has served to eliminate 95% of the noise and increase quality by several magnitudes.<br><br>I would guess that a similar system would work very well for blog comments.<br><br>Regards,<br>George", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_12:37:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "b42aa6bf561aafb3d025095f182f28b0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707833": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi Robert,<br><br>I just blogged this \"Scoble Wars: Attack of The Trolls\"<br><br><br>Hope you enjoy it!<br><br>Jim Connolly<br><a href=\"http://www.thetechnewsblog.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.thetechnewsblog.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_14:16:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e99ce506a5eebb50512b9dfd2ec05f8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707834": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "For the top bloggers and RSS feed consumers, blogging is second life. It's an escape from reality with the ultimate effect being a reality disconnect.<br><br>Sewing the two worlds together is difficult for the top tier. Realistically, blogging brought them/you fame. Given the choice of being an idol focusing on celebrity topics vs normal life, what's more exciting? Many people have serious trouble hanging on to reality.<br><br>I know I'm disconnected at times. I'm arranging a geek dinner outing in Philadelphia while For Sale signs stand in neighbors windows for 12+ months. I use Google Docs on OS X, iPhone, N82, and EeePCs while my wife uses Win2k and Excel to wrangle hundreds of thousands of lines of data (65k per file).<br><br>Gary Vaynerchuk compared blogging to the 1980's hip-hop movement. He's exactly right... A few big names will become extremely famous. Huge numbers of others will try and fail. And the people that made it to celebrity status will have psychological issues and disconnects with the world.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_14:32:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "25769ac9da72e934b928e636906379c8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707835": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert:<br>\"We used to link to each other all the time, telling you when all the other cool bloggers have done something new and useful.\"<br><br>cheapsuits:<br>\"The problem is the small blogger goes through life unheard much of the time. Big zero\u2019s in the comments section.\"<br><br>The little guy who blogs purely out of a desire to share his thoughts can't get noticed. And it's not helped by the A-list bloggers when they're trackbacks are broken, and they don't respond when they're told about it (That wasn't you, Robert - but it's happened a few times elsewhere)<br><br>I have my own blog (shameless self-promotion: <a href=\"http://patternsofchaos.net/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://patternsofchaos.net/</a> ) - and I like to think that I'm offering worthwhile content. But I have no way to know, since, as far as I can tell, nobody reads it.<br><br>I can't help but wonder how many blogs like mine are out there, that I can't easily find. Blogging was supposed to give a voice to the little guy, but they're now drowned out by the big players - just like happens everywhere else.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_15:12:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "e52a0154583a624a9cd24dc5a95c912e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707836": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, it's a free service, so take what will. But, like I always say, if you approach everything you hype up, and bet on the opposite, then you provide a very valuable service, telling the real movers and shakers what they can safely avoid paying attention to. Don't sell yourself short.  Whomever employs/sponsors you, invest heavy in their competitor, no more so evident as in the doubling WDC stock price. The 'Reverse Midas Touch' you are gifted with, has tremendous value.<br><br>It used to be a closed-chummy-club, now it's all play-doh journalism niche-news hounding, but even yet still lots of good tech and non-tech blogs out there, but prayers chance they will ever be noticed. Blogging is just another power distributional curve, \"blockbusters\" still exist and those in the \"long tail\", might as well cash in chips for all the time and effort, hardly worth it. But when you do a massive rant, with machine-gun name dropping, you are beyond fixing. Nor do you really want to fix it, you are on top, occasionally insincerely self-flagellate and move on. That way you can say, I know it's broke, but it's the system...dontblameme.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-23_15:51:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f6291e8344b594235e57b843fc05d9b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707837": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Updated Jarvis link  if no one has posted it- <a href=\"http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/23/a-cure-for-curmudgeons/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/23/a-cure-fo...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-30_17:03:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "945afb85ce950bc8185d8603da6ace07", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707838": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@Robert: I could give you many reasons why tech blogging has 'failed' but fairly top of list for me would be 1. a failure to undertake meaningful analysis that locates technology in and around business 2. an assumption that all new things are 'good' without thinking about their implications 3. the PR driven nature of much of the stuff we see out there. 4. an unhealthy obsession with Google.<br><br>One of your prime sponsors is SAP. You know, boring old ERP, yet they remain one of the most interesting companies on the planet and have some of the most interesting and engaging people I've ever met. As does Oracle, Adobe, Microsoft and a few others. They're old skool if you like but they get what delivers the bacon and pays the bills.<br><br>It may not be your thing but tech needs business just as much as business needs tech. That's how the money gets made to support Silicon Valley the way it does. Learn to love the business just like I've had to learn to love the geeks. You might be surprised at what you discover.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-31_22:13:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "dahowlett", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707839": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is a very cool and thoughtful post. I definitely understand the feeling of information overload. So much is going on, it's kind of hard to wrap your brain around it some times. That said, I think as a tech blogger that you get a chance to be a little bit of a visionary. It's really easy to get caught up in rating the latest apple apps and trying to grab traffic from digg, et al by catering to a popular topic. It's also really fun, but taking a step back to look at the big picture and offer thoughts and musings about where it all may be headed, I think that's the fun part. And I think that sparks other people in the tech community and is a really valuable service.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-08-01_13:56:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "60b53452e5b9a84ec34a2e4b4eba16bb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9707840": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thank you", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-12-28_12:18:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b4341bcdc7683ce4befa9105be4cb46", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "11 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "12305304": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks for your information", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-07-08_05:59:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "c3a4eac4ae87e2132e554119b05769e9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "5 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "10844628": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Comments that are trollish are just as annoying as \"I agree -- Way to go\" type comments (\"Sugar Gliders\" if you will).  If you are really interested in dialog you need to moderate those comments as well.  You mention  \"Why can\u2019t commenters be nice\".  I say why can't their be \"ideas\".  If I say \"Scoble, your an ignorant slut\" but pose a good idea and dialog whats wrong with that? But comments like:  \"Well said, well done!\".  No content, no idea, no nothing other than the poster seeing their words posted.  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	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = 'a2d140c59df8cd4ce27a20e0829cacd8';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=scobleizer' +
		'&t=hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_default_text) +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL + '</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS + '</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';

			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>'
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> ' + Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			var retval = parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
			return !isNaN(retval) ? retval : null;
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">172</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on Scobleizer" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:18361677" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'scobleizer',
			't'				: 'hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'hashowwhy_tech_blogging_has_failed_you'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

  this.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		  var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		  var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		  Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		  status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		  window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/18361677/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/scobleizer/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
			so.write(_videoUri + '_content');

			previewDiv.style.display = 'none';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'block';
			showDiv.style.display = 'none';
		}
		else {
			flashcontentDiv.innerHTML = '';
			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
		}
	};





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postComment_onSuccess', Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess);

})();

Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707691">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707691" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707691" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707691" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707691" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707691" class="dsq-comment-message">Louis Gray has a post on a similar topic that\'s worth reading: <a href="http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/07/techmeme-and-techcrunchs-detractors.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/07/techmeme-...</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707692">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707692" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707692" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707692" href="http://friendbinder.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Richard Cunningham</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707692" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707692" class="dsq-comment-message">IMHO there seems to be too much coverage (in general on the web) of the MS/Yahoo deal, Apple\'s latest overpriced thing, Twitter downtime and never enough about Linux or open source. But then I\'m sure that\'s because of my own interests.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707693">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707693" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707693" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707693" href="http://ernohannink.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ernohannink</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707693" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707693" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh boy, I agree with you on many if not all of your points. It was what I am still blogging for, sharing great things that I find. Always trying to find the positive site, or when there is a negative story trying to look at possible improvements.<br>Negative comments and online fights are no fun to read.<br>Twitter once a great communications now more more people add just a feed to their profile and are just sending, not responding to questions. PR Twitter feeds.<br>It is all part of the growing up pains of this web 2.0 area.<br>Curious to see where this is going.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707694">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707694" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707694" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707694" href="http://www.freebsdnews.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Gerard</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707694" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707694" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree that tech blogging is becoming more difficult to attract attention and compete with TechCrunch, Mashable, Ars Technica etc.<br>This is especially the case when you blog about generak IT stuff, new products and services from the Big Boys, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, IBM etc.<br>However, I think there IS value in blogging about niche markets or have a blog that specialises in a certain aspect of IT.<br>I have a news blog about FreeBSD and operating systems based on FreeBSD (<a href="http://www.freebsdnews.net" rel="nofollow">www.freebsdnews.net</a>) with a relatively small audience, but because it\'s small you get a chance to report news first, there\'s less competition and you have a more personal relationship with a a number of your readers</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707695">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707695" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707695" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707695" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707695" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707695" class="dsq-comment-message">Richard: yeah, Linux doesn\'t get coverage because it isn\'t used on many people\'s desktops. I never see Linux in the airport and rarely see it at tech conferences, so it\'s easy to ignore because it\'s only used in servers/data centers, etc. Open source? Old topic and not much new there, except when someone tries to use it in a new place (like Yahoo\'s search engine applied it lately).</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707696">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707696" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707696" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707696" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707696" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707696" class="dsq-comment-message">Tim: learning to write, take photos, build relationships with people who build stuff, and learning to do videos +is+ a skill and is needed in the industry to help sift the important from the unimportant.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707697">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707697" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707697" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707697" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707697" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707697" class="dsq-comment-message">I just realized that Tim is one of those jerks I just can\'t stand. Gone.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707698">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707698" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707698" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707698" href="http://www.freebsdnews.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD News</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707698" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707698" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, please ignore my previous comment<br><br>I agree that tech blogging is difficult to attract attention. The blog needs to have something "extra" in order to be able to compete with TechCrunch, Mashable, Ars Technica etc. This is especially the case when you blog about IT in general, new products and services from the Big Boys, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple,Google, IBM et.<br><br>However, I think there IS value in blogging about niche markets or specialising into a certain aspects/niches of technology<br>I have a blog about FreeBSD and operating systems based on FreeBSD (<a href="http://www.freebsdnews.net" rel="nofollow">www.freebsdnews.net</a>) with a relatively small audience, but because it\'s small you get a chance to report news first and to have a more personal relationship with readers.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707699">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707699" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707699" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707699" href="http://www.shokk.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ernie Oporto</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707699" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707699" class="dsq-comment-message">So the important thing will be what you do next with this insight.  My challenge to you is to set up a blog space somewhere else.  Something like a hobbyist setup of Wordpress, out of anyone else\'s control, and use that as a clean slate.  Let someone else take the control of commenting out of your hands, like Disqus.  Do your non-business stuff there and see how that grows compared to your current space.  If not, then you know the old style is dead, end of experiment, wipe the blog clean, and back to business you go.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707700">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707700" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707700" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707700" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/kumarshyam" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shyam Kumar</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707700" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707700" class="dsq-comment-message">Depends on your who you are writing for.. who you want your readers to be..<br><br>The average Joe or the average Joel?<br><br>And as you said, there are so many channels today that you can leverage, that it doesnt have to be \'OR\'..<br><br>And if tech blogging has really \'failed\', i dont think it\'d be around and kicking as much.<br><br>One blog I do enjoy is Bob Warfield\'s <a href="http://smoothspan.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">smoothspan.wordpress.com</a><br>Incisive, opinionated writing. Not just news and links.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707701">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707701" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707701" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707701" href="http://ChrisBaskind.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chris Baskind</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707701" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707701" class="dsq-comment-message">Refreshing: Go for it, Robert. I\'d be delighted to see tech blogging swing back to things which excite users, not just investors and CEOs. Awesome.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707702">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707702" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707702" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707702" href="http://txalma.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Txaber</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707702" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707702" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with you on many of your points. I read your blog because I am looking for opinion, not news, not latest news. I don\'t need them. I don\'t care about them. But I do care about opinions, specially when they show new ways of seeing something or points that I did not even think about. I am also happy with your slow blogging, it\'s the only way to keep up. You should see my google reader, I only keep up with slow bloggers.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707703">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707703" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707703" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707703">Dirk</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707703" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707703" class="dsq-comment-message">Ernie is right: Put "Sabbathical, some Weeks at least" in h1 on <a href="http://scobleizer.com" rel="nofollow">scobleizer.com</a>, keep it accessible, and append your time and motivation to what you\'d just described.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707704">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707704" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707704" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707704" href="http://www.mmmeeja.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">andymurd</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707704" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707704" class="dsq-comment-message">Congratulations on your epiphany and having the backbone to realise that you need to do something about it. Tech is still cool, just because it\'s currently fashionable and highly monetised hasn\'t changed our enjoyment of it.<br><br>Working outside of the US, I have never seen the value of TechCrunch et al. I may as well wait and read the business pages in the Sunday newspaper as deals by giant west-coast companies have little urgency in my life.<br><br>BTW I\'m a tech blogger that still uses Windows 2000, I just never saw the need to upgrade. I also use a five year-old iBook G4 because it\'s cheap and still works beautifully.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707705">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707705" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707705" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707705" href="http://www.wadja.com/petty01" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">George Koiliaris</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707705" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707705" class="dsq-comment-message">When you see many blogs dealing with the same topic and trying to reproduce it over and over again then it makes me feel that it\'s actually my fault as a reader. If I, you, he/she, as a reader, think that the Yahoo/Microsoft deal is really important and hot then it is expected that "every" blog will write about it in order to gain visits, diggs etc.<br><br>If on the other hand the readership shows its HOT interest on other things, let us say Google Friend Connect vs FB f8 then bloggers wouldn\'t make so much fuss about Microhoo and would focus on the above mentioned.<br><br>Do I sound naive? Maybe...and maybe not.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707706">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707706" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707706" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707706" href="http://www.technovia.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ian Betteridge</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707706" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707706" class="dsq-comment-message">Really good post, Robert. It\'s great to see the Scoble I started reading years ago (when your "latest thing" was Tablet PC!) back. Welcome back, mate.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707707">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707707" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707707" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707707" href="http://behindthebuzz.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rachel</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707707" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707707" class="dsq-comment-message">The news blogs, amongst which many tech blogs sit, get skimmed, titles only. Actually, those are the ones that title feeds are better - you can flick through a lot quicker.   Opinions and enthusiasm are far more fun to read! Just bring me what you love, not what you think you should be writing about to get the traffic and keep up with the current hot thing</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707708" href="http://ctovision.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ctovision</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707708" class="dsq-comment-message">That was a good post.  "Fail" might be the wrong word to use, but as you mention, many tech bloggers have been focusing too much on the latest thing.   I don\'t need to visit blogs to read what is in my RSS feed from the tech news sites.  I appreciate your opinion and the way you connect technology to human experiences.  I also appreciate your twitter feeds so please keep that up.<br><br>And if folks reply to your question "What blogs are doing the best tech blogging?" I\'d appreciate seeing the list.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Bob Gourley<br><a href="http://ctovision.com" rel="nofollow">http://ctovision.com</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707709" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707709" href="http://silentinsanity.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rodrigo Leme</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707709" class="dsq-comment-message">Socblçe, don\'t you thinks tools like Friendfeed, Facebook and others are what blogging needs to be saved? I tend to see these tools (as well as StumbleUpon, i.e.) as filters to what is really relevant and what is PR in disguise or just a old fashioned bad post.<br><br>So, blogging did fail, but did not become irrelevant. It just needs to be put in sync with mechanisms that allow us who\'s delivering the goods or not. You can\'t go wrong with the wisdom of crowds.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707712" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707712" href="http://galaxyspectrum.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Public Relations</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707712" class="dsq-comment-message">...<br><br><br>Techcrunch overcame the business focus - by creating<b> TechCrunch IT</b> and smaller vertical sites that CrunchGear.<br><br>Only a large blog could accomplish this and be successful - but it shows that there is an avenue for those who do not want to abandon tech for business.<br><br>Mashable too, is managing to keep some of their tech roots while focusing on the necessary business stories to survive</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707713" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707713" href="http://jungleg.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jorge Escobar</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707713" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Robert,<br><br>Great post! It circles a lot of the sentiment that\'s been bounced around by Fred Wilson and others around the importance of blogging (I did a little comment on it on my new blog).<br><br>One suggestion I had, which I\'m also planning to do, is to link your blog comments with FriendFeed\'s -- I believe there\'s a plugin or something. I think this is the real, active, fun crowd that can give you that sense of thrill about technology (I know I do, every day, reading my FriendFeed).<br><br>Keep up that child-wonder feeling!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707714" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707714" href="http://www.bijansabet.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bijan sabet</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707714" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post Robert.<br><br>I feel the same way.<br><br>It would be easy for me to turn my blog into a PR machine to try and promote my investments 24x7.<br><br>But that wouldn\'t work for me and why work-related posts are the minority of my posts.<br><br>The part that really struck a chord with me about your post is all the negativity on tech blogs these days. I\'m sure they are therapeutic for the blogger and they are trying to shine a light on something they care about it - but it seems like it\'s getting nasty.<br><br>We should try to help each other. Not kick each other.<br><br>Look forward to watching/reading your blog evolve.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707715" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707715">Tony Crooks</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707715" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post, Robert. So much blog content just doesn\'t have genuine value. Some is the writer\'s responsibility which combined with the rush to be first to post creates gushes of \'me to\' stuff. And what we don\'t have are the tools that provided suitable aggregation along the lines of \'x says... and another 25 posts are very similar\' to provide decent filtering based on content. Thankfully there are still people who think before they post. But not so easy to see any longer amongst all the other chatter online.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707716" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707716" href="http://friendbinder.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Richard Cunningham</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707716" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert: Actually I see a lot of tech people moving to Linux on their laptops, work systems and home systems, but no real big headline deployments campus/company wide. This seems to be *growing* at a faster rate than any system right now though still at a lower overall percentage than either Windows or Macs. This seems to be the case at least in a couple UK Universities I know about anyway, where users tend to have more freedom about what they use. Ubuntu seems to be a lot more popular than anything right now for newbies and seems to avoid the old question of what distro to use (which used to be either RedHat or Suse).<br><br>I\'d say in 10 years of using Linux there is more interest than at any time I can remember. It seems that Ubuntu is more popular than the iPhone for example, but the iPhone gets loads of coverage.<br><br>For the record - all my systems (work, home desktop, laptop) are single boot into Linux and only the laptop has a virtual machine XP install which I use to test IE7 and Safari rendering but I don\'t find it useful for anything else really.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707717" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707717" href="http://www.blog-sat.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">David Barkan</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707717" class="dsq-comment-message">I fully agree with your post, to much information, not enough follow up and not enough usable info this is what is make blogging like a news paper. Blogging is not new , it is something different which make you share your experience or knowledge with others. I suggest a rule for a post, 100 words only and useful to somebody.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707718" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707718" href="http://joelsonnet.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Joel Sonnet</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707718" class="dsq-comment-message">I definately agree with everything your saying I\'m a new reader to your site I heard about you through a really good tech friend of mine and I am personally only I\'d say medium knowledge on alot of technology things but by going through and reading alot of your stuff I find myself completely interested in the things you have to say and in a way I really can understand. I\'m glad your going back to basics so to say and I also love it when I can just sit down with someone and get a little nerdy with a friend about a commonly loved subject. I look forward to reading more from you and apologize for finding you so late.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707719" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707719">Bravia Stoli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707719" class="dsq-comment-message">Ask yourself these questions:<br><br>1) When was the last time I sat and "SEARCHED" for new tech out there? (without being sent something to read out)<br><br>2) Do I care about New tech outside the valley on a 1 to 1 level, instead of finding out about it via VC\'s?<br><br>3) Do I like technology for technology\'s sake or for the people that are behind?<br><br>4) Evaluate a tech to see if it is genuinely new, not a BBS recreated on the web?<br><br>All the \'popular\' blogs have gone down the shitter with content being pushed up front based on their sponsors, not genuine user interest. And, people are sheep, they will follow.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707720" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707720" href="http://aravindjose.com/blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Aravind Jose T.</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707720" class="dsq-comment-message">Well Robert,<br><br>Am I allowed to say "Wow, Classical/Legendary Post" ?<br>Don\'t keep it in the category of 14-year olds; coz, I\'m 17 years old :D<br><br>Yeah, it is long. But I read it full (twice!!).<br>Now, I\'m not able to write a comment that\'ll compliment the class of the content that lies above this, but I just wanted to state that:<br><br>"I AGREE WITH YOU"<br><br>I\'m a tech-blogger myself, but seriously a bit (or a lot ?) far away from the position you are enjoying now !!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707721" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707721" href="http://www.jkontherun.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">James Kendrick</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707721" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, come back to jkOnTheRun.  We deliberately avoid doing just what you\'re complaining about.  There\'s too much fun with the tech, gadgets, etc., to be worried about the business of tech.  We\'re waiting for you.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707722" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707722" href="http://curiousvoyager.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Walter Riker</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707722" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert I will agree with most of what you have to say. Digg is not a good resource for information (at least for me) and as for TechCrunch or TechMeme or Google News they remind me of CNN NEWS and all I do is scan and very seldom read. I am looking for the NEW in technology and or the NEW in uses of current technology. I am a big fan of "What\'s happening?" not who is trying to screw who. Sometimes the stuff you write goes over my head but as time goes along I can put it together with something else. I am still trying to find my voice and your GOOD stuff helps and the other I just overlook. "Keep on keepin\' on".</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707724" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707724" href="http://seanandmelissa.net/sean/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sean</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707724" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, this was an interesting article.  I find myself skimming the top tech blogs for subjects that sound like they might be discussing something new and interesting.  I rarely read Techcrunch anymore, but I do see what they are linking too.<br><br>I am totally 100% in agreement and you really had my attention when you talked about Apple and the latest and greatest stuff.  I am just wrapping up the XP upgrade at my firm.  Windows 2000 is not that far gone for us, and I know that many of the people in the firm are still using it at home (along with Windows 98).  I do think though, that highlighting the new technologies is what helps to generate buzz, and I think that buzz will lead to new people moving on with more modern gadgets and operating systems.  Every so often I will have someone at work as me a question about something new in technology, and bring up your name or Techcrunch or Mashable...the message does get down to the masses eventually.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707725" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707725" href="http://www.ophilos.eu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">philos</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707725" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post! So true and honest! The same thing that you observe, I also observe here in Greece, although I am not a tech blogger but I follow many tech blogs from all over the world.<br><br>Replying to your last question "What blogs are doing the best tech blogging?" I prefer to follow tech blogs that at least 5 out of 10 of their entries still today seem useful and interesting to me.<br>I think that labnol from <a href="http://www.labnol.org/" rel="nofollow">Digital Inspiration</a> is doing a great job.<br>He is choosing the most interesting news and tips and he tweets only when he has something really important to say or to notice.<br>Maybe it helps that he is thousand miles away from the "coolest events".</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707726" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707726" href="http://photographworks.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">David</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707726" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>I look out for things I can use, and Evernote is one of them. I examine things for myself and usually don\'t take the hype at face value. I watch things come and go, and wonder why some of them ever came in the first place.<br><br>I imagine I am like most of your readers, most twitterers, most powncers, most bloggers.<br><br>I remind myself that quality derives from attention to detail, competence, and love of what one is doing. And if there is intended to be an audience for whatever it is that is being developed, then for the developer, quality also derives from respect for the audience and the users and a sense of responsibility in making sure the thing works right.<br><br>Some of the neatest things I use were made by people who made the thing to satisfy themselves.<br><br>So the task for you is to be a good detective, and find the good things.<br><br>Keep smiling -it\'s infectious.<br><br>:)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707727" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707727" href="http://jaycersworld.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Juan Carlo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707727" class="dsq-comment-message">I think you\'ve succumbed to something most of us do: why am I doing this? And truthfully, there\'s something about technology: it\'s moving too damn fast to keep up with. That\'s why many tech bloggers focus on the "shiny new" and never follow up. But I agree, Lifehacker does a great job, as does <a href="http://MakeUseOf.com" rel="nofollow">MakeUseOf.com</a>. To be honest, I heard of you and knew you well on the comments, but it was only when I started following you on FriendFeed that I took an interest in what you were up to.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707728">Autumn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707728" class="dsq-comment-message">This is exactly why I\'ve stopped reading most tech blogs...the nastiness and the monotony.  The comments are particularly bad.  I used to read over 50 blogs that could be classified as tech, now that number hovers around 3.  Now I\'ve mostly migrated to reading what other people would term "mommy" blogs, because the community is friendly and caring, and the bloggers tend to discuss things that make me happy.  I find it makes my day that much more enjoyable.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707729" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707729" href="http://vinu.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">vinu</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707729" class="dsq-comment-message">Agree to almost every word of it :-) I have cut down from 350 of feeds to 90 odd. Out of these 90 odd - they are recommendations from people who read lots. from delicious and other stuff. Some I regularly read are: Smart Mobs + Communities Dominate + some select mobile blogs. I also wish there were blogs on Nano, Bio-tech who would engage in diverse set of conversations online!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707730" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707730" href="http://rozelles.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Lincoln</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707730" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for the update. I look forward to the new improved scobleizer.<br><br>To use the subtitle of a book I like:<br>We could do with REDISCOVERING PASSION &amp; WONDER.<br><br>Don\'t forget the early adapters but don\'t pander to them either.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707731" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707731">Ryan</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707731" class="dsq-comment-message">I think one reason tech blogging (and blogging in general) is failing to engage audiences is because bloggers are trying to replace the comments section on news sites.  Whenever a piece of news hits the web, the bloggers jump all over it with a standard "Here\'s the article, here\'s what I think" post.  Now I\'m not denying the different writing styles and subtly different takes each blogger comes to the table with, but essentially most of the blogs I read (or gave up on) followed the same format:  "Look at this shiny new gadget, it\'s great!" or "Company X bought Company Y, what a bunch of idiots!" or "Obscure tech conference ABC opens tonight, and I saw these three blogger A-listers there!!"  I don\'t see why I couldn\'t get this type of commentary in the news sites\' comments sections.<br><br>Additionally the tech blogosphere is a giant echo chamber, with everyone basically scooping each other\'s news, clogging up readers\' RSS feeds with identical articles.  I once had to navigate seven different blogs until I actually found the original source of a story (probably Reuters).  I (still) have more than 30 different tech blogs and "blognews" feeds in my Netvibes dashboard, and if iPhone is the big news, EVERYONE will be talking about iPhone (and saying the same things about iPhone).  If the Yahoo soap opera is news today, sure enough Yahoo will show up in those 30+ feeds.<br><br>Here\'s a suggestion for bloggers: If, on a given day, CNET and Techcrunch and Techmeme and Om and BoingBoing and ReadWrite all have pretty much identical "Article+Commentary" posts about the MacBook Air--take that day to talk about something totally different.  In fact, don\'t even mention the MacBook Air.  Maybe write about the clever tech insight you came up with while skydiving yesterday.  Write about the last conversation you had with a software developer who\'s over 50.  Write about something that\'s not necessarily the BIG STORY OF THE DAY but that you can present from an angle that few others have considered.<br><br>Well, that\'s my rant. Take it or leave it</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707732">Dawn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707732" class="dsq-comment-message">What I don\'t like about tech blogging is the "They don\'t get it" attitude towards nontech people.  I\'ve never once seen any tech blogger even consider the notion that perhaps he is the one who doesn\'t get it.<br><br>So there is this echo chamber where only tech interests are considered and everybody else\'s interests be damned.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707733" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707733" href="http://consumer2business.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Greg Bond</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707733" class="dsq-comment-message">Sboble, I\'m not sure what you drank before you wrote this post, but whatever it was, I want some.  I totally agree with your reflection.<br><br>I read you top bloggers religiously, and as of late, I\'ve been pretty tired of the repetition and homogeneity. I can\'t say I\'m doing any better myself.  What can we do better to diversify, and appeal to larger audiences?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707734" href="http://www.umpcportal.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">stevepaine</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707734" class="dsq-comment-message">Dawn has an excellent point. I\'ll be thinking about that as much as I can as I continue my bloging.<br>Chippy.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707735" href="http://www.RevereBlog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Curt Mercadante</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707735" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, I\'ve literally only been reading your blog for about two weeks or so.  I\'ve been trying to read up to "get smart" on technology, updates, and tools.<br><br>I keep coming back to your blog because you seem to have so much darn fun.<br><br>More than anything, I watch your videos.  Your interviews are like gold to me - you have fun with them, I learn new things, and get to comment real time with the other viewers.<br><br>Your blog has more personality than the others.  It\'s fun.  And, unlike other tech blogs and sites, I learn how I can incorporate new tools into what I\'m doing with my clients.<br><br>Keep it up, Scobleizer.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707736" href="http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Seafarer/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sheila Scarborough</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707736" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for your thoughtful commentary, and for reaching out to your readership.<br><br>I\'ve only begun reading your blog and following you on Twitter within the last year, but so far, you have intro\'d me to Kyte and Qik (so I can tell others about streaming from a cell phone although mine can\'t do it,) you\'ve told me about Sifry\'s Offbeat Guides (I just ordered one yesterday for Grand Rapids, MI - there\'s a beta test!) you\'ve told me about FriendFeed and why you like it so much (I\'m not that into it but thanks to you I can understand the appeal of better threading, like Plurk) and I\'ve downloaded the Microsoft telescope thingie but just haven\'t had time to look at it, though I know it\'ll be great when I do. Finally, I met Rocky because of you, and now I can say Hi to him occasionally on Twitter and keep him updated on drag racing news.<br><br>I\'m a "regular Joe" writer with a busy life who likes having you out there "on point" for me - you\'re my own personal tech scout.<br><br>You bring enthusiasm and kindness to a medium that is too often in danger of snarkifying itself.  The fact that you sit back and think out loud about self-improvement like this is testament to your professionalism and genuine regard for your readers.<br><br>Thanks for what you do - keep writing and I\'ll keep reading.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707737" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707737" href="http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">paul</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707737" class="dsq-comment-message">The Techie audience thirsty for knowledge is much smaller then the Get-rich-quick audience, but the largest demographic is the Free-lunch boys.<br><br>The blogs with the most revenue have tricked their advertisers into believing teenage boys are business decision makers.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707738">quagmires</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707738" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m new to the world of blogging and are still tweaking with things. Your blog certainly isn\'\'t boring. I would appreciate if you visit my blog and give me some tips or suggestions. <a href="http://quagmires.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://quagmires.wordpress.com/</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707739">Dawn</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707739" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with Sheila about your enthusiasm and kindness, Robert.  And I would add that you\'re the least arrogant tech blogger that I know of, which is greatly appreciated, though you do have your moments. ;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707740" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707740" href="http://www.michaelb1.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">michaelb1</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707740" class="dsq-comment-message">bravo, Jerry MCGuire.<br><br>Seriously, great insight.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707741">The Determined</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707741" class="dsq-comment-message">The problem with thinking about how someone has failed another is the assumption there\'s some obligation on your part to succeed. You don\'t owe anyone anything. Just do your thing. If people like it, cool. If they hate it, hot. Going to meta in your own head is what causes golfers to blow one foot puts. Just sing.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707742" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707742" href="http://www.johndavidhead.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John Head</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707742" class="dsq-comment-message">While I follow all of you in the tech world via rss, friendfeed, and twitter, nothing personal Scoble, but most of what you post has no real value to me on a daily basis. Same with the non-business side. I am a consultant in Chicago. I spend my days implementing solutions for customers. I don\'t care about what is \'cool\' or \'fun\' ... I care about what I can learn to solve my customers problems. I find so much that I read part of the bubble many live in ... and do not realize that everyone outside of that just watch for entertainment value. Did web 2.0 have a major impact on the world? of course. But I am not implementing solutions from people you video ... I implement solutions from folks like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and others. Is the iPhone appstore cool? Of course it is ... but until I can get apps from my bank, insurance customer, and things like OpenTable and DiningIn on there ... the value is pretty low.<br><br>Please, do not stop what you do. Nor do I want TechCrunch and TechMeme or other folks like SmugMug (Don is an amazing guy) to stop what your doing. But please realize those of us outside the bubble just don\'t care about the fights and bickering. Business Reporting is a good thing. The best situation would be a well balanced mix of business, cool ideas, video, and case studies of this being used in real world situations, with real customers, impacting the real bottom line.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707743" href="http://www.defragcon.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">eric norlin</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707743" class="dsq-comment-message">hey robert-<br><br>i started to blog about this a bit yesterday (more under the theme of not putting the same people on stage at conferences like Defrag):<br><br><a href="http://defragcon.com/Blog/?p=244" rel="nofollow">http://defragcon.com/Blog/?p=244</a><br><br>let\'s catch up soon!<br>ejn</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707744">teejayhanton</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707744" class="dsq-comment-message">Interestingly enough, I have been meaning to go through my feeds and remove a lot of the extraneous stuff. Seems I\'ll see 10 articles about the same new PMP or Xbox game ... and yet, none of it really matters all that much to me. To say that you\'re "out of touch with the real world" is subjective. You\'re not touting yourself as a "real world" blog, you\'re a tech blog. The tech world IS out of touch sometimes. ;-)<br><br>For as long as you\'ve been around, I only just recently found your blog. It\'s one of the few I actually READ, rather than just skim. First, it\'s not just a shotgun approach to topics ... you put considerable effort and writing into your posts. Second, for the most part, I\'m genuinely interested in your topics. Finally, yours has insight. As somebody who\'s been doing this for a while, your name is certainly out there ... you\'d be pressed to find a "geek" who hasn\'t at least heard of Scoble!<br><br>Please don\'t change up your format too much. Like I said, I\'ve only recently discovered you and am liking what I read. However, Lifehacker IS one of my favorite sites and anything along those lines is good too.<br><br>One more thought, I dig Apple products (for the most part). But also dig my XP box and my Linux distros too. IMHO, if it works, use it. Things are shifting away from being OS-centric to being more user-centric anyway. You can open just about any format file on just about any system nowadays. Half the applications people use are web-based too, so it doesn\'t matter what platform you get your data from ... Wii, XP, iPhone, etc. The smart companies will realize that and make interfaces generic enough to use on any device.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707745" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707745" href="http://minethatdata.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kevin Hillstrom</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707745" class="dsq-comment-message">Well said, well done!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707746" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707746" href="http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DGentry</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707746" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d guess your main issue will be aggressively filtering out the torrent of junk that people constantly try to push on a pundit of your stature, to make time for the things you want to focus on.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707747" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707747">John Welsh</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707747" class="dsq-comment-message">Good posting. But you say "Twitter where there are real people who don’t care about the business but who are just looking to use technology to have more fun" but I find I am already being spammed <a href="http://johnwelsh.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/twitter/%21" rel="nofollow">http://johnwelsh.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/twitt...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707748" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707748">Phil B.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707748" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post Scoble...  In the long run, the approach you mention here will win  you a bigger following, and hopefully will encourage other bloggers to follow suit.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707749" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707749" href="http://www.howtosplitanatom.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Steve Spalding</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707749" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Robert,<br><br>First thing I\'d like to say is that I loved the post. I loved it because it proves more than ever that you believe strongly in the world you spend your life reporting on, which regardless of any failings that blogging has is the most important thing in the world (which I\'ve been rambling on and on about for the last week).<br><br>The only part I had to comment on was HP reference you made. I am an Electrical Engineer by trade, and it stuns me so much how quickly we (as "blog people") convolve the concept of technology with neat gadgets. I\'ve had to pleasure of seeing implementations of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (among other technologies, including so really cool Solid State research like you described) that completely blow every web app I have seen in the last 3 years right out of the water. Implementations of these technologies put together by grad students without any other commercial interest other than their degree.<br><br>There is so much more out there, and I think we get so caught up in the muck that we lose focus on a lot of it. Worse, we forget that the only point in any of this, as John pointed out, is to solve problems.<br><br>Solve problems, for people, using technology.<br><br>Either way, great post and I am looking forward to seeing what you come up with.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707750" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707750" href="http://designnoob.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">onechick</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707750" class="dsq-comment-message">I really loved this post. I\'d like to point out, though, that I do generally find your posts to be informative and interesting so I think fail might be too strong of a word. What makes me want to just log off and go do something more useful is all the bickering that goes on between some of the "top" tech bloggers. I care about ideas, not about personal squabbles. I\'ll come out and say it -- I don\'t care if Jason Calacanis is retiring from blogging for whatever reason (frankly, I\'m annoyed that I even know the whole story), yet that clogged up my FriendFeed for what seemed like an eternity.<br><br>What worries me is the trickle down effect. People like myself who are very new to the tech blogging scene (though not new to the business) find it difficult to get in on the conversation. So, while the top bloggers begin to all cover the same stories, we end up emulating and only talking about those same exact stories. I blame myself for that though, more than I would blame you or any other blogger.<br><br>Anyway, I just wanted to say that I found this post to be really honest and inspiring.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707752" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707752" href="http://www.smartmarketingexpert.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Keith Cash</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707752" class="dsq-comment-message">WOW. Great article. The detail was amazing and insights with information was a very good article. Maybe one day I can strive to blog this well. I will start reading more often</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707753" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707753">tweetmedicine</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707753" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post! Now try saying it in 140 characters!:-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707754">cheapsuits</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707754" class="dsq-comment-message">Well first off I agree with the tone and focal point of this post.  However, look around, the small old tech school blogger is still out there.   I love reading blogs like that.  The problem is the small blogger goes through life unheard much of the time. Big zero\'s in the comments section. Less then $10 in the Adsense account. They want to be blogstars.  To do that you have to sell out and get on the corporate rat race wheel and play the myriad games.  Sad really.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707755" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707755" href="http://futureofchoice.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dick Rowan</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707755" class="dsq-comment-message">Nobody has failed anybody. I would guess that in the early days of telephone, people talked a lot about telephones and this life-changing new device. Over time, the technology receded and now people talk on the phone about living and working and whatever.<br>I suppose the same will happen with web communications, once regular people--not geeks--reach critical mass. Robert, you can advance that evolution by writing for, and talking with, regular people about the things they need to learn and change to be happy in this complicated world. Thanks for you efforts.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707756" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707756" href="http://www.netsensei.nl/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Matthias</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707756" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi Robert,<br><br>I can do nothing more but agree.<br><br>I\'m not going to put into words what a tech blog should be about. But if you\'d ask me to give one great example, it would be Mark Hoekstra\'s <a href="http://Geektechnique.org" rel="nofollow">Geektechnique.org</a>.<br><br>Maybe it\'s not an allrounder or the most accessible blog to read, but it\'s about technology and guy who loves it to death.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707757" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707757" href="http://www.makeyougohmm.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">TDavid</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707757" class="dsq-comment-message">Good post, Robert. Too much of what passes itself off as \'tech blogging\' these days is boring and uninspired. It\'s stuff we\'ve all read (or written [gasp]) years ago, just with a slightly different shade of lipstick on the pig.<br><br>It doesn\'t take much creativity or energy to sit back and rewrite press releases or fire off a screed about what your favorite (or least favorite) tech blogger(s) just posted.<br><br>I\'m not sure FriendFeed is the tech holy grail you are seeking, though. Respectfully, I think you were on a better track when you used to keep up your Google Reader list and uncover the most interesting of the gems to blog about here. Speaking for myself, I was more interested in what you blogged about back then versus these days.<br><br>Sure, you could use FF to help out there, but if you\'re letting your friends/followers primarily dictate what\'s interesting that\'s not much better than writing about the top stories on TechMeme or following the digg/reddit pop lists.<br><br>I think part of the Web 2.blow movement that has it all wrong is that being popular and being interesting and/or useful are the same. Sometimes this  might be the case, but not always. As we\'ve seen through gaming these voting sites can be manipulated and thus what\'s "interesting" becomes muddy water.<br><br>And I don\'t understand the desire to push readers off to some third party, off site comment system either. What one might think is convenient could be very inconvenient to others who might not even know what FriendFeed is, much less how or why they should use it. Tell somebody who isn\'t a blogger and yet is interested in technology and the web why they should use FriendFeed? Forget you and I, Robert, where is the value add for this type of person?<br><br>I happen to like FriendFeed and find it personally useful (for non-Twitter non-Friendfeed discussions which unfortunately dominate the service), but feel it is getting too much hype, just like Twitter. Someday the reality distortion field clears and we get back to what is truly useful in the world. FriendFeed might be \'cool\' but does it have mass market useful application in the world?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707758" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707758" href="http://staysmall.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Amar Rama</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707758" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br> This may just be tangentially related but Umair\'s post today hits on the same thoughts from a 100,000 foot perspective. <a href="http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/07/daily_reading_a_12_step_progra_1.html" rel="nofollow">link</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707759" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707759" href="http://johnwelsh.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John Welsh</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707759" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi<br>Good afternoon.<br>Could you tell me why my comment about Twitter was not used? It remained in a "To be moderated" position and has now disappeared. I am new to blogging so if I have broken some etiquette, it would be useful to know.<br>My comment made reference to me receiving spam via Twitter and linked back to the my original posting which I thought added something to Mr Scoble\'s blog. Obviously not so sorry about that.<br>Thanking you in advance<br>Cheers</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707760" href="http://nicefishfilms.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Sean Wright</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707760" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>I really enjoy the passion of your post(s). Your enthusiasm is contagious, your desire to share the discovered shiny objects is winsome in nature.<br><br>I am excited about The Large Hadron Collider because as an inquisitive human I want to peek under the hood and see the really tiny parts that make up the whole. The Tech Blogging Universe may not set records in size, but without the Explorers tapping furiously on their strings the general public would never know how exciting it is down here. Robert please continue to "pick" apart the features of various connective tissues so that someone may make it stronger. Finding the weakness of channels requires you look very close at the pipes, from that perspective it can get pretty remote. Keep digging though, it\'s clearly in your DNA. You encourage others to play in the sandbox of ideas. Your post prompted so many great comments, discoveries and connections- not a bad life indeed Robert.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707761" href="http://brentnewhall.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Brent P. Newhall</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707761" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post, Robert!  While I don\'t think it\'s as bad as all that, there\'s certainly an echo chamber.  Good to see you commenting on it.<br><br>It\'s about *content*.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707762" href="http://www.flutterby.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dan Lyke</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707762" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m a hardcore techie, my blog runs software I wrote myself, I currently pay the bills by developing both hardware and software, and I\'ve never read the TechMeme front page or the Google news technology section.<br><br>By the time a technology hits one of those it\'s a shipping product, and I\'m developing products in a competitive market place, I don\'t have the time to wait for things to get all the way through the development cycle before I use them, and if I wanted re-published press releases I\'d go to one of the sources for such things.<br><br>There are plenty of *real* tech bloggers out there, and they\'re publishing schematics and source code and showing pictures of their soldered hacks, along side their pet rabbits.  These are the people doing the innovation, the stuff that will end up on TechMeme in a year or three, but by the time it filters up that far we may as well read about it in the Finance or Lifestyle sections.<br><br>Other commenters have harked back to the days when you were excited about the tablet PCs. One evening several years ago I met you in a parking lot in the South Bay and you showed me why you were so excited about the products you were working with. Those are the sorts of stories that I want to see more of from you, the places where it\'s someone in the back lot after hours, not the front lobby during business. The times when someone\'s so jazzed about their technologies that they\'re going outside the channels of their company to push it. That\'s what pushes technology forward.<br><br>Let the mainstream journalists rephrase the press releases and represent the agendas of the PR guys, that\'s what they\'re good at.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707763" href="http://www.simpleweight.com/blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">scott</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707763" class="dsq-comment-message">Funny, I was wondering a similar meme recently.<br><br>Basically, I was wondering is Naked Conversations, your book, relevant anymore?<br><br>Should companies, or even people, blog anymore?  Does blogging get lost in the shuffle behind the a listers, behind the "top x " post writers, etc?<br><br>Does blogging add value to the company or the individual anymore?<br><br>I\'m not a twitter user nor a friendfeed user.  I remember when blog comments were the thing to do.  I still comment, but I noticed conversations are fleeting among the blogosphere.  Twitter and Friend have all caused comments to be scattered across too many areas.  Additionally, the comments are so short on twitter, that I wonder how that adds any value to anyone besides time wasting.<br><br>I see that Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn, etc...  all have walls to leave comments on.  How does that benefit me or you?<br><br>This post, Merlin Mann suggests, seems to hit on the head.  Blogs are becoming impersonal.  <a href="http://www.43folders.com/2008/07/21/blog-pimping" rel="nofollow">http://www.43folders.com/2008/07/21/blog-pimping</a><br><br>When Blog comments can force Kathy Sierra off the blogosphere, it makes things terrible and harsh.  Who wants to write in that world?<br><br>The other part, authors, used to comment and follow up on comments.  Now, people are too busy with emails, rss feeds, writing trying to catch the next digg, yahoo buzz, reddit wave.<br><br>So, what makes a good tech blogger or a good blogger in general, someone who interacts with tries to make personal communication with their audience.  The rest is just public relations writing masked as a blog.<br><br>I still read 37signals.com/svn/  I follow <a href="http://liferemix.net" rel="nofollow">liferemix.net</a> blogs although that\'s kind of headline driven.  otherwise, I use techmeme, popurls, and alltop to filter the noise to the popular.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707764" href="http://ketchupkronicle.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">earl wallace</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707764" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert- This my first reply to your blog.  It\'s the best of all the rss feeds I receive mainly because of your honesty and accurate self appraisal.  I totally agree with your viewpoint on how tech bloggers have let us down.  I like PCMECH for the same reasons.<br>What is slow blogging?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707765" href="http://lowtechtimes.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">S.P. Gass</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707765" class="dsq-comment-message">Dawn, I couldn\'t agree more about tech blogger attitudes towards those who "don\'t get it."<br><br>And I agree with Robert about tech blogs generally being an echo chamber.<br><br>I also agree his commentary on problems with comments, especially on digg.  In my own case, rarely receiving bad comments is one of the benefits of not having a large readership...  but I\'d being lying if I said I didn\'t want to see traffic increase.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707766" href="http://techleaders20.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Alex Hammer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707766" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a treasure trove, as always. Organize the blog post in topics with headlines throughout the post, etc. It will take twice as long to write (half being editing) but will be more readable to more people and attract more people. Editing just as important as writing.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707767" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707767" href="http://techleaders20.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Alex Hammer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707767" class="dsq-comment-message">At the highest levels, less is more. The 80-20 rule. Expand on the gems and let someone else make their profit on the scraps.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707768" href="http://socialmediabutterfly.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nathania Johnson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707768" class="dsq-comment-message">If you do this edifying thing you\'re talking about, I would be more inclined to read your blog. Or anyone else doing the same thing.<br><br>Blogging could (should?) be the antidote to competitive journalism, which in this fast-paced society doesn\'t take the time to check facts or at least provide a story in its true context.<br><br>Some content labeled as blogs is simply digital so-called journalism.<br><br>It\'s not that reporting news is in and of itself is bad. I do this for a living. But the competitiveness and the nastiness is what I don\'t like.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707769" href="http://www.dawsonhunter.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dawson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707769" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>First, thanks for your honesty and openness. It\'s refreshing to hear the human behind this screen I\'m staring at.  Your post actually gets me excited about the human race and about the tech community.  I hate writing, but your post (nearly) inspires me to write! :)  I look forward to reading more that you have to share.<br><br>Second, you\'re not an idiot.  Idiots don\'t recognize their finite knowledge or respect the knowledge and intelligence of people who know more about something than themselves.<br><br>Finally, I had one idea about dealing with the flood of press releases. Perhaps bloggers should clearly identify the source of information.  I believe my journalism classes called this "attribution."  Rather than writing as the source of information, bloggers who want to be taken seriously ought to disclose the sources of information.  Whether that is in a headline ("Apple Claims To Be Cooler Than You") or in the lead graph ("According to a document releases by Apple today, Steve Jobs is bigger than Jesus AND The Beatles"), sources should be attributed... even yourself ("I THINK owning an iPhone will increase your happiness by 12 percent").<br><br>Thanks for your contributions.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707770" href="http://act2.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9A87F3A86CB0AA3E!2542.entry" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Alfred Thompson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707770" class="dsq-comment-message">Well my comments on this post on my own blog made TechMeme. Maybe that means the long tail is still getting some attention afterall.<br><br>Thanks for asking the questions Robert. A lot to think about here. Many of the items you bring up would be worth a post and discussion of their own. Comments for example might be worth two - problems with being hard to comment and the idea of people just being nasty little children at times.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707771" href="http://www.writetech.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michelle Lentz</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707771" class="dsq-comment-message">I really like this post - and I tend to agree.<br><br>I write occasionally for bub.blcio.us, and I\'m supposed to cover tech. That also includes when Company A buys Company B and so on. The journalist in me cringes at publishing anything before it is confirmed, so a lot of times I\'m a little late to the party with announcements. I\'m okay with that.<br><br>I have a hard time digging up stories that I really want to write about for bub.blicio.us, because so much of techmeme is mired in Yahoo and Google and Apple. I love Apple but really, I don\'t care about the big guys. I want to read - and write - about the little guys with the cool new web-based application, whatever that may be.<br><br>Tech blogging is changing, but there are still good bloggers out there who don\'t care if they aren\'t on the Techmeme Leaderboard (I could care less) and who search out the real story and ignore the business-y boring stuff. And there are still some great developers out there who haven\'t hired a huge PR firm and just want to be found.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707772" href="http://www.jasonkolb.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jason Kolb</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707772" class="dsq-comment-message">Excellent post, Robert--very heartfelt.  Feeling that you deserve to be on the A-List because of ideas you post, but realizing that being on the A-List requires a marathon of blogging, commenting, and almost perpetually being in front of a computer can be frustrating.<br><br>I think you do a good job of exposing the flaws in the current paradigm in this post.  I think eventually the dust will settle and there will be two types of blogs:  the news-based, reactionary blogs, and the thoughtful, innovative blogs (or what I like to call the "good blogs").  It seems the blogosphere is going through growing pains right now, and what it will grow up to be remains to be seen.<br><br>Once again, great post.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707773" href="http://www.friendfeed.com/aaronkrug2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Aaron</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707773" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br>I appreciate what you are saying, and am glad that others share the same opinion as myself. What happened to being the guys who always had some tech trick that seemed like magic to the uninitiated? The joy of tech for me is showing that magic to others and getting them interested in what\'s out there too, and lately we have all become business whores a little bit. I don\'t know how it happened, but I am glad that you have seen it too. I look forward to the future content coming from this blog.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707774" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707774" href="http://rex.fm/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rex Pechler</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707774" class="dsq-comment-message">How about a tech blog focused on real world effect on your life?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707775" href="http://kevinbriody.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kevin Briody</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707775" class="dsq-comment-message">Good post and great comment stream. A couple reactions:<br><br>"Bickering" and the like (from a commenter) - I think this more than anything has caused me to substantially reduce the amount of tech/geek/gadget/etc blogs I subscribe to. So often otherwise good blogs and eloquent writers degenerate into name calling and finger pointing - Arrington did this, Winer yelled that, Calacanis spun this, Scoble claimed that, etc. My view of podcasting is still stained thanks to reading all the Curry vs. Winer stuff years ago. It gets old - we all have enough stress and drama in our lives, we look to tech blogs to talk about...tech.<br><br>Tech blogs as PR outlets - having seen this first hand (worked on a PR team for a major tech company, reaching out to bloggers), I can say you are 100% spot on. Some of the highest trafficked tech blogs are nowadays indistinguishable from "traditional" news sources, albeit faster to the story and with more snark. They want (demand in many cases) the scoop or exclusivity, as that first 2 min of a story garner all the traffic. And traffic drives ad revenue, which is really all that matters. They love embargoes so long as it gets them "in" on early news or reviews, get invited to the cool parties and treated like royalty, etc. It\'s all part of the game, which has taken a chunk of the fun out of blogs as you mentioned. It also turned me off a lot of them when I jumped out of that game - why read them when they all print mostly the same story? I mostly read bloggers now with strong opinions and fun angles, with an occasional techmeme wander to see if anything big is happening.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707776">David Evans</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707776" class="dsq-comment-message">I resonate with being attracted to the latest and greatest while missing what we already have.  How about a tech blog on how to use the standard (aka old) stuff better?  We only use 30% of an apps abilities because we don\'t dig deep and think creatively.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707777" href="http://chipotle.livejournal.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Watts</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707777" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m just a technology blog reader rather than writer (I\'ve tried starting my own tech blog more than once and realize I just don\'t have the motivation to write daily, let alone multiple times a day), but this is an interesting set of observations. I wonder if tech blogging is "failing" because it\'s succeeded: namely, that it\'s succeeded in mostly supplanting those expensive weekly publications like Infoworld and PC Week that, a decade ago, did all the "serious" news reporting anad analysis. To stay on top of things in the most fast-paced parts of the tech industry now, you don\'t read the top magazines, you read the top blogs. But as that\'s been recognized, the blogs attract the same kind of attention--both kind and quality--that the \'zines did. Coverage on TechCrunch is as valuable as coverage in Infoworld was.<br><br>Unlike Rodrigo, however, I\'m dubious that tools like Friendfeed are "what blogging needs to be saved," at least yet. That\'s for a reason that you touch on--it\'s like turning on a firehose. I only subscribe to *seven people* on the site and it borders on too much for me to keep up with. If I subscribed to just a few dozen, I\'d damn well *have* to find a way to be a professional blogger because I wouldn\'t have time for my programming job. I think Friendfeed is onto something with the idea of social networking aggregation, to be sure, but if a company goes mainstream with social networking sometime in the next decade--by which I mean "gathers an audience past the obsessively connected," which I don\'t think even Twitter has done yet--it\'ll be because they\'ve crossed the next bridge past good aggregation tools: good mediation tools.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707778" href="http://www.sidecutreports.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Paul Kapustka</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707778" class="dsq-comment-message">There are some new models out there... I humbly submit my new project, <a href="http://www.sidecutreports.com" rel="nofollow">Sidecut Reports /a&gt;, where we take deep-dive looks at subjects like WiMax, Net Neutrality... rather than follow the headlines of the day.</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707751" href="http://www.mwd.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">@JoeHobot</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707751" class="dsq-comment-message">That\'s freaking weird <strong>Robert</strong> because I wrote almost same thing just very short. "Where is THAT tech news"<br><br>Anyways great post mate.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707710" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707710" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707710" class="dsq-comment-message">John Head: I regularly do interviews with "old school" companies too. SAP, Microsoft, IBM, HP have all had time on my show recently. Maybe we need to go a little deeper into enterprise stuff once in a while. Point taken.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707711" href="http://decafbad.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Craig Maloney</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707711" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, don\'t worry; the "suck" of commercialization will arrive at Twitter and Friendfeed soon enough. It\'s not the medium that sucks, it\'s the people who use it, and the maturity of the medium. That\'s why TV, radio, and movie theaters suck, and why blogs are now coming under attack - it\'s all about the money.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707723" href="http://www.agirlsgottaspa.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shannon Nelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707723" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, you are dead on. So many of us who have been in blogging for years sometimes lose sight of why we started in the first place as the direction of blogging has gone more mainstream. Thank you for reminding me why I do what I love in the first place and that I need to keep that focus.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707779" href="http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ontario Emperor</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707779" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow! You covered a lot of ground in that post, so I\'ll just limit myself to the first one, tech blogging focusing more on business issues.<br><br>Obviously the purpose of a blog is going to depend upon the capabilities, or lack thereof, of the individual blogger. For example, when Twitter was having huge uptime problems in the spring, I tended to focus more on Twitter\'s then-lack of communication then on any technical issues. The reason was simple - I do not have the technical knowledge to state whether Ruby on Rails was, or was not, the cause of Twitter\'s problems. (My last professional programming job was in Hypertalk.)<br><br>Whether you\'re taking a technical approach, a business approach, or another approach to the topic, it helps if you can either (a) add original content, or (b) feature content which your readers may not know about.<br><br>Business blogging in and of itself is not bad, but business blogging which regurgitates press releases doesn\'t help anybody.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707780" href="http://bestpartyever.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">BizGirl aka Sally Strebel</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707780" class="dsq-comment-message">Welcome back, Scoble. It\'s good to see you energized. This energy that you\'re putting out is the reason I started following you in the first place. Keep it up. You\'re doing great things.<br><br>All the best,<br>Sally</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707781" href="http://philbaumann.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Phil</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707781" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow. This isn\'t just about tech blogging, even though that\'s your specialty. Same could be applied to other interests.<br><br>Robert, could you do something to rescue those 14 year-olds you mention? They are, after all, the future. I think if you carved a little time to speak at schools, you could sew a few good seeds. They\'ll be adults in only a few years. They could use the in-person inspiration (lord knows they\'re missing that I\'m afraid). Perhaps you already do this. If not, please think about it.<br><br>You\'re one hell of a blogger. Off to FF.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707782" href="http://www.bearne.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Paul Bearne</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707782" class="dsq-comment-message">I would love it if when new cool items come out all the bloggers could link to the source website and just a comment a bit like the comments on Google reader<br>And this was the aggregated using the source URL so I get to see their views and opinions but it was all tried together as a single article/Aggregation view.<br><br>We need a new RSS value for source URL this would work a bit like add a keyword/tag for an event in Flickr etc.<br><br>Wish to different views but I do wish to have aggregated.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707783" href="http://veetrag.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Veetrag</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707783" class="dsq-comment-message">I completely agree with your view point. Tech blogging/reading is becoming a bit boring these days, just because whatever new thing comes up, the view point, comparison strategy is same.<br><br>If we take some article written 3 months back on some new web 2.0 startup and compare with something similar that came up now, we find them almost similar. I have also reduced the number of feeds that I used to subscribe.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707784" href="http://techwag.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">dan</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707784" class="dsq-comment-message">I know that I have tapered off blogging since the hacker storm in April/May, it just doesn\'t feel right, more of a psychological effect, plus everything seems to be the same over time. There is only so much enthusiasm you can have over your 20th zombie brain sucking super poke share with your friends on facebook review that you can do. My 2 cents, but like many of the bloggers I know, we will eventually come back after being gone a while and seeing what else is going on, but please goodness, no more facebook apps, I wanna see something that will blow my socks off.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707785" href="http://www.justinflood.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Justin Flood</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707785" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks for this post Robert,   usually I\'m  not the biggest fan of your stuff, but this was spot on!<br><br>There\'s nothing inherently wrong with covering tech business, but I agree with ya,  a lot of the blogs out there will cover EVERY story just because.   There\'s also the problem of bloggers who will do and say anything to get hits.<br><br>On my site, I tend to just cover what interests me.   That strategy isn\'t going to get me to the top of the techmeme leaderboard, but it\'s guaranteed to make sure that whatever I write is quality<br><br>I\'m always going to do better work if I\'m interested in the final product.<br><br>No matter how many PR people contact me, I just follow the stories that interest me.   If there were more sites like that, I think we\'d have a more honest and probably more interesting blogosphere.  Keep up the good work!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707786" href="http://chuckwilliamsjr.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chuck</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707786" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, I stumbled across this through a Twitter post. If this is how you really feel, I just might start reading and watching you again. I quit awhile back because I just felt like I was being hammered all the time.<br><br>Best of luck on finding what works. I will be watching.<br><br>Chuck</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707787" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707787" href="http://www.baratunde.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Baratunde Thurston</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707787" class="dsq-comment-message">your complaints about comments are obsolete. just shut up and install disqus already! :)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707788" href="http://supercw.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">supercw</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707788" class="dsq-comment-message">running out the door but had to say this is one of your best posts scoble.<br><br>aloha, cw</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707789" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707789" href="http://shawnfarner.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shawn Farner</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707789" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree.  For me, it has become almost a chore to go through my feeds every day.  Why is this?  What happened?  Everyone is writing about the same things and the tech blogosphere is becoming increasingly stale.<br><br>Everyone needs to start having fun again.  Tech blogging isn\'t just a job for some, it is a passion.  Find that fire that\'s dying within.  Excite people!  If you don\'t, someone more interesting will come along to replace you.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707790">Kacy F.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707790" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m at work right now, so I can\'t comment for too long as I\'ve spent too much time reading this post. This is the best posting I\'ve seen in a while from a tech blogger. You\'ve hit a nerve, and that excites me. I\'m sick of hearing about the newest social networks and the latest deals in Silicon Valley. As you know, social networks work for different people.<br><br>As you say, tech blogs have left their primary audience to focus on things that the average geek doesn\'t care about. Thanks Scoble for a great post.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707791" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707791" href="http://www.marketing-ninja.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Aaron Stannard</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707791" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'ll tell you what, Robert. If you can live up the promise that you\'re implying here (to make an earnest effort to move back to your roots) then maybe I\'ll start subscribing to your blog again. I\'m a marketer, I blog about marketing, and I read tons of blogs about marketing. Watching Apple\'s PR team string tech bloggers along gets tiresome when I just want to, as you put it, find out about new technologies to make my life better.<br><br>Right now I can\'t find a lot of good "hey, check out this cool service" articles from the mainstream tech blog articles because it\'s all anchored around the vicious cycle of buying into the PR process.<br><br>So I\'ll tell you what: you start writing about cool new services beyond the latest iPhone app, beyond "whatever\'s hot now," and I\'ll subscribe again. FriendFeed, iPhone, Twitter - they\'re all over-exposed and well known; tell me what I don\'t already know.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707792">Chris Kim A</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707792" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, it really seemed to fly apart at the seams when the "A-listers" noticed they were the A-listers, and while all friendly and in fun at the onset, turned into a frenzy that not only took up way too much airtime, but even hurt some folks along the way. Funny thing is, this isn\'t new, either. Same kind of thing happened 10-12 years ago, it just wasn\'t as close to the mainstream media as this round has been, and so the phenom was largely overlooked. However, it was just that (IMHO) that set the stage for what would be known as "dot.com", now forever tainted, but similarly driven by speculators, VC groups and such, kind of like what may very well happen with "Web 2.0".<br><br>I\'m glad Scoble is able to examine what he\'s doing while he\'s doing it; it\'s one of the more outstanding things I first noticed about him. Mostly, though, what really got me following is the endless exuberance over cool stuff and the people who think up cool stuff that is the solid thread. Is there money in it? Probably enough, but it\'s obvious Scoble\'s motivation isn\'t the cash (but it never hurts), and you really don\'t have to be friends with people to be friendly to them. The genuinely genteel approach he uses works very well across a wide variety of people, and raises the signal level above the noise.<br><br>One of these days I\'m going to sort out my own experiences over the last 15+ years with the \'Net, from BBSs to a direct SLIP connection to the San Jose hub and all the blah blah in between then and now. 12 years ago we were video conferencing via CUSeeMe with people all around the world over a 9600 baud modem! Talk about your early adopters. So when I finally get it blogged someplace, you can blame Robert Scoble for reminding me how happy and exciting being around cool people doing cool things in and around the the ever-meshing, always morphing tech/life/art world can be if you stay focused on what you love about it.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707793">Kathy Sierra</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707793" class="dsq-comment-message">Phil said:  "Robert, could you do something to rescue those 14 year-olds you mention? They are, after all, the future."<br><br>Ze Frank recently said, "I\'m trying to inject some humanity into this..." after a suggestion that perhaps Digg and YouTube commenting was becoming the training ground for young people in \'how to behave online\'. Not encouraging. And unfortunately, it\'s not just 14-year olds.<br><br>Michael Arrington has made the point many times that the \'relentless background of hate\' in his part of the tech world is not sustainable. But this post is one more example of why I continue to admire and be inspired by Robert Scoble.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707794" href="http://www.bladam.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Adam</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707794" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow!  Clearly I\'ve come a bit late to this post; everyone has pretty darn well said what I wanted to say.<br><br>But nonetheless, I\'ll add this:<br>Robert, I have gained a lot of additional respect for you with this post.  I\'ve not always agreed with your take on blogging and online communications (in fact, I\'ve pretty strongly disagreed with you at times), but I found myself nodding my head in agreement again and again with you in this long but spot-on entry.<br><br>Thanks for the having the selflessness and thoughtfulness to post this, self-criticisms and all.  Your points are worth reflecting upon by ALL of us who blog, all of us who read blogs, all of us who reward both the good and bad in the blogosphere with our time, our comments, and our respect.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707795" href="http://www.edenjaeger.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Eden</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707795" class="dsq-comment-message">Yay! Lots of good ideas here. But will they be implemented or was this just a wild rant?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707796" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707796" href="http://areyouageek.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Nelson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707796" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>This is a (very long) but excellent post. I want to thank you for writing it. I am someone who currently earns a full-time living from blogging, but would consider myself far from an a-lister, which I am OK with, and in some ways prefer because I can do a little more of what I like and not what other people think I should.<br><br>The portion about the PR and the same stories hitting at the same time really hit me, as its a topic that has been bugging me personally lately.<br><br>See, I wanted to get to a point of earning a full time income from blogging and that was the easiest path, so I to have become wrapped up in that same cycle and have been looking for a way to move past it, and also encourage the other writers on the site where I am a senior editor to do the same.<br><br>While I personally think FriendFeed is not all that its cracked up to me, maybe its just because I have not spent enough time on it. Perhaps because I have been to busy covering the "tech news" and have had less time to be a blogger.<br><br>And, PS, Evenote is awesome, especially the iPhone app.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707797" href="http://frem.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">James</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707797" class="dsq-comment-message">Y\'know... Digg has *always* had horrible comments. I think the average level of spelling and reading comprehension might have improved somewhat in recent months, actually.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707798">mikecane</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707798" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707798" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt;&gt;&gt;Look at all the stories on TechMeme or Google News’ tech section.<br><br>Well there\'s your -- and their -- frikking problem right there.  Stop doing the circle jerk and get out to blog that DON\'T do all-tech all-the-time.  Man, when the economic sh*t hits the fan, you\'ll all be crying in front of your HDTVs.  Suckers.<br><br><a href="http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707799" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707799" href="http://www.johnpadams.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JP Adams</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707799" class="dsq-comment-message">Scoble.  Thank you.  I\'m sure it was not easy to write.<br><br>1. Seth Godin talked about something similar.  It sounds like what you\'re describing is the "Passion Pop Gulf" (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/5zgmc7" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/5zgmc7</a>)<br><br>2. Marc Andreessen is the best tech blogger, hands down.  He teaches people how to build companies, lead, and make the tough choices.<br><br>3. You remain valuable to the young guy.  Take it from a new comer to the field (25 yr. old, about 1 year in).  I watch your Fast Company TV religiously.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707800">Erik</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707800" class="dsq-comment-message">From some of the most recent posts I see on your friendfeed, it is really in line with the book I just started, ironically the same day as reading your post.  The Pirate\'s Dilemma, by Matt Mason.<br><br><a href="http://thepiratesdilemma.com/about-the-book" rel="nofollow">http://thepiratesdilemma.com/about-the-book</a><br><br>The first chapter is about the punk revolution, and the peoples\' desire to break out from the status-quo.  How this ultimately affected many industries from music to tech to retail.  Mass media and the underdog individual are an important part of the story.  Check it out, there is a PDF you can download on his website.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707801">Josh</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707801" class="dsq-comment-message">It occurs to me that if you need to monetize your blog via pageviews, that\'s the whole game right there.  You can\'t afford not to chase the minute-by-minute scoop, quantity over quality, and the leaderboards at hubs which drive traffic.  That\'s where the money comes from, and most (not all, but most) niches simply cannot be effecitvely monitized to make up for an order of magnitude fewer eyeballs.<br><br>More contemplative, more relaxed, more in-depth blog conversations may flow from when we see a resurgance of writing as a labor of love, not a means of supporting one\'s self.  When your postcount is a means of putting food on the table, that can\'t help but effect the output.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707802" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707802">Derrick Burns</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707802" class="dsq-comment-message">If we ever meet, Scoble, I\'ll owe you a drink.<br><br>I\'ve been feeling that something wasn\'t right in blogging--and tech blogging in particular--for a while now, and I think you  might have just hit the nail on the head as to what it is.  The coolest thing about technology isn\'t the glitzy packaging and the blinking lights, it\'s the way that it changes peoples\' lives.  In fact, this post goes a long way toward summing up why I\'ve decided to have another go at blogging (shameless plug:  First post today!).<br><br>I may be the freshest face on the social Web block, but I\'ve considered the Web home for as long as there\'s been one.  And bloggers, columnists, analysts, and activists like you have done a lot to build what I love so much.<br><br>Here\'s looking forward to the coming months.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707803" href="http://www.ContentMatters.info/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Barry Graubart</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707803" class="dsq-comment-message">I think there are some valid points here but a lot of what I read here is the problem with the scobleizer blog, not the problem with blogging.<br><br>For example, you write "Many of us can seem out of touch with the real world. Do we write about all the forclosures going on? No, and while we’re waiting in line for iPhones and buying the latest games, that can seem pretty out of place right now while people are losing their homes or their life savings."<br><br>Well, no, on tech blogs there\'s not a lot of coverage of foreclosures. But, on blogs like <a href="http://www.researchrecap.com" rel="nofollow">www.researchrecap.com</a>, we started writing about subprime related problems before the first iPhone came out.<br><br>You write: "Tech blogging has become way too controlled by PR agents.". Well, yes, if your tech blog is focused on trying to "break" tech news. But many blogs are about insights, not just news.  I think Read/Write Web is a great example and I hope that my own Content Matters fits that description as well.  I get pestered by some PR types (not a fraction of the ones you hear from) but unless it\'s something that I think my readers would care about, I don\'t write it.<br><br>You write: "So, off I go to FriendFeed and Twitter where there are real people who don’t care about the business but who are just looking to use technology to have more fun, be more productive, or do something more interesting with their lives."<br><br>I use Twitter and Friendfeed, but also find that it\'s a much more insular community than the blogging world. So, it\'s all about the fail whale and waiting in line for iPhone 2.0 or, perhaps, seeing the Batman movie or riding in Jason\'s Tesla demo.<br><br>There are hundreds of compelling blogs out there providing interesting insights. It\'s not the medium that\'s broken, its just the noise that many of the tech bloggers are now generating that makes it harder to hear.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707805">Charles</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707805" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t praise this post enough -- it\'s the most insightful, thoughtful piece you\'ve written.<br><br>And this is coming from a guy who thought you were the "People Magazine" of tech bloggers, at best.<br><br>Great work, and I look forward to more of the same in the coming months.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707804" href="http://davistudio.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">madpotter</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707804" class="dsq-comment-message">In spite of what you say about comments, you seem to have quite a few right here. Also, I am not a tech blogger, I am an art blogger with a mix of all kinds of stuff that is personal but ultimately there to increase my brand visibility. At least that is what I tell my bookkeeper who is very aware of my bank balance and my time spent online. As a small producer of hand made things, I have to think about business and the blog-sphere is where I come for free, expert advice about productivity, tech news and community development, which is where I see all business heading. Don\'t be too jaded, Robert. It is all just beginning.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707806" href="http://www.consumerpassion.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jeff Crites</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707806" class="dsq-comment-message">I find I spend less and less time on and worrying about what the A list blogs say, unless it\'s a unique post about something I find personally relevant.<br><br>I love discovering new ways normal folks and real businesses are using new technology to improve life and business.  Robert, you\'re one of the lead scouts, a kid in an expanding candy store with the ability to take the complex and simplify it for non-geeks ... explain how tasty and challenging that new jawbreaker is.<br><br>Most interesting thing I did today, besides spend time with a client and discover ways to bring her dreams to life, was enjoy Chris Brogans Webinar on \'Who Owns the Brand\'.  Watching live video discussions interlaced with real-time Twitter questions and comments ... centered on a rally interesting topic ... now THAT was an hour I"m glad I spent in front of my computer.<br>And tomorrow, I"m going to interview an ice cream shop owner, use my Nokia N95 to do some Qik-ing (learned that from you Robert), post about his secret sauce, why people are so passionate about it.  Can\'t wait.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707807" href="http://www.retheauditors.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Francine McKenna</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707807" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree that the popular blogs are often too corporate.  But it\'s not all that way.  Many ask me how I find time to write mine.  It\'s called 24/7, baby.  I read everything.  Without a reader tool.  I\'m not that disciplined to check one aggregator every day consistently.  I like the surprise of finding an obscure reference to my beloved Big 4.  Like by a KPMG intern in Malaysia who posts pics of a drunken KPMG party with obligatory lap dances by the girl interns in the same post where she laments the fact that not all of them will get the chance after graduation to work for the louts. But I admit I do have help from Google Alerts so I at least know when my subjects are written about.<br><br>I just write about the same four firms, over and over, in what\'s been called a "refreshingly unexpected" way. I\'ve also been called a "bitch" who "talks shit". And I\'m a girl who wears stilettos.  No one else really writes about these things in the same way that I do. Call me old school, but my blog has an audience and it\'s growing.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707808" href="http://thinkingdigitally.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rob Olson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707808" class="dsq-comment-message">Like the 100+ people before me I also want to thank you for writing this post Robert. I see the stuff you talked about everyday and I think you are dead on.<br><br>The "tech blogs" are no longer focusing on the "tech" and instead of looking more and more at the "business" because that\'s the lowest common denominator among the readers. We can all easily understand business news but real tech news has a much smaller audience.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707809" href="http://colbyolson.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Colby Olson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707809" class="dsq-comment-message">More lifehacker stuff? Yes please. Lets get geeky and find new cool things instead of rechewing the same old rumor gum.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707810" href="http://www.cyclelogicpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Partners in Grime</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707810" class="dsq-comment-message">"[W]hile we’re waiting in line for iPhones and buying the latest games, that can seem pretty out of place right now while people are losing their homes or their life savings."<br><br>Do what brings you joy. Not standing in line isn\'t going to save those folks\' homes one iota.<br><br>Cheers, Neil<br><a href="http://www.cyclelogicpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyclelogicpress.com</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707811" href="http://MyMobileAdventures.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">BellTinkR</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707811" class="dsq-comment-message">Hello, Robert.  First off, not everyone that disagrees with you is a jerk.  I\'m about to disagree with you, and I am by no means a jerk.  What I am is a businesswoman who looks at social media with a critical eye and tries to figure out how each app/environment/flavor that comes along could be leveraged to be more productive in business, to enable people to do their jobs better/smarter/faster.  That\'s my job, and that\'s what I look for when it comes to social media.<br><br>Second - how has tech blogging failed me?  Well, everyone keeps talking about the iPhone, which I have determined is NOT all that, much less a bag of chips, and I\'m sick of it.  It clogs up my Google Reader something awful!  Please, make it stop!  :D</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707812" href="http://quux.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bryan</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707812" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>I used to really enjoy what you were doing at Microsoft &amp; Channel 9. Sometimes I wish you\'d go back to that. Except I still want to see transcripts and/or better sound, because (as someone with hearing problems) I could barely understand many of the interviews.<br><br>And the comments were better back then, too. How can you bring that back? Go deep again, talk with the people doing stuff, not the people selling stuff. Don\'t worry about the next big thing, or about kudos/criticisms of newly launched products. Talk to people who are doing stuff. Show us what they are up to - and let the other folks pick the trends, write the kudos, write the criticisms.<br><br>Go back and watch your own video on the Kindle. Ask yourself if you really wanna be that guy. Then go back and look at when you interviewed Jeff Snover, and ask if you wanna be more like *that* guy.<br><br>I know which one I\'m rooting for!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707813" href="http://blog.carryonpr.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Julie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707813" class="dsq-comment-message">A refreshing read!  Thanks for being so candid!  How did we ever get into a culture where "yee with the most tweets wins"??</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707814" href="http://www.designkloud.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Luke Westra</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707814" class="dsq-comment-message">Great post. I\'ve been working on a site focused on the unappreciated facets of the world of design for the past year and I\'ve struggled to both keep up with quality content generation and post frequency due to the issues you discuss. Tech sites like TechCrunch and even Engadget or Gizmodo and many other practice in such a time to market space that they are forced to publish early and often to have potential bragging rights. This can often hurt the quality of the content. The other aspect of this story is that with financial markets and corporate politics fluctuating as they do, the business stories tend to outnumber the stories about the new widgets or services and are therefore easier to latch onto for a quick headline.<br><br>Try not to be too hard on yourself. Posts like yours above that offer perspective and a bit of humility are few and far between. It never hurts to take a step back and look at the true purpose/focus of your content. It could be said that the whole nature of tech news is always going to involve some frivality - most people don\'t find these shiny gadgets as essential as those "in the know"... Keep up the good work.<br><br>-Luke.<br><a href="http://www.designkloud.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.designkloud.com</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707815" href="http://fudge.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jay Cuthrell</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707815" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>Please get behind the camera again and away from tech for tech sake alone.  Just as people find it fascinating to watch a "star" cook, chat, or generally opine on things unrelated to their profession -- so too this can apply to the general coverage of tech.<br><br>I watched a video segment of Jay Leno in his garage and read follow up articles on his fascination with cars.  I would never have watched or read something about how he tells jokes for a -living-.<br><br>Nerds and geeks are interesting but there is no Barbara Walters for this medium.  Everything has been dissolved into an elixir of buzzwords and business drama.<br><br>Can you be Bahbwah Wawah?<br><br>-J</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707816" href="http://placidfreedom.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Prasoon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707816" class="dsq-comment-message">Scoble,  First lemme clear teh air. You ahve tons of followers and if any of those actually felt that you were failing them, woudl we still be following you. Hell with the bad comments that you get - even Mac OS gets those ;-) [Did you just see what MS has begun saying about Vista that it has far less vulnerabilities than any other OS and all that - heck, tomorrow if I give an OS that does not connect to Internet everytime without my permission and it wont download a file without me clicking YES over a hundred times, I would call it "very" secure but thats not what it is meant to be like]<br><br>Dont bother as to why you are unable to follow up on shiny objects two weeks down the lane. COme on - its teh tech industry and we can expect things to be stagnated. We like to see new tings coming really fast and thrashing out the old. We like staying updated about the new and not necessarily the old things. Isn\'t it one of the many reasons why Mac OSX is beter than anything Windows. The duration between Vista and Windows 7 was enough for Apple to lauinch 2 OSs and that means that they were/are much ahead and its Windows doing teh catching up. Similarly, when blogs like techcrunch and say yours talk suddenly about what you heard and what you saw[referring to WWT], it brings in interest in us readers and thats what is prime. We are all fine with your posts - cant be happier. or lets say, we are in need of 10 scoble\'s updating scobleizer - yes 10 updating one blog. Its not the info overload, its not you failing us - trust me.<br><br>ps: The Apple/MS comparison is inevitable you see. One stands for latest stuff soon out of the box and the other is just outdated n all that. When was iPhone design started tell me and did you hear about teh Zune phone? nah! Apple is much ahead and we want to stay much ahead with others doing the catch-up. So, there is nothing like the follow-up syndrome you should get into.<br><br>You asked what we read - for me, I read a very few blogs but then, I dont follow Gizmodo/Engadget for the Gizmos - I love to read <a href="http://DVICE.com" rel="nofollow">DVICE.com</a> for the latest in gadgets and crazy stuff and according to me, it satisfies "my" needs. I dont follow techcrunch or crunchgear other than have them as a widget on my iGoogle page but I follow you using Google Reader and my friends would vouch for the fact that I keep sharing your posts everytime I really like something and want others to read. In short, we readers would read what aligns to our though process and to teh pace with which we want to stay updated - you dont have to change anything just because you think you have failed us. It might be just a few whom you failed - forget them because you cant please everyone all the time. Today if you get back to WWT after say you ee something nice on your monitor, you think we all might love to read about it - I really doubt that ;-)<br><br>Keep scribbling..</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707817" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707817" href="http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Yakov Fain</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707817" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s pretty simple. There are people who don\'t run businesses. They have nothing to promote in their blogs and provide technical content and commentaries.  I started blogging four years ago and had nothing to sell - just pure technical stuff.<br><br>Two years ago I became a partner in a company, and we created a blog on our business Web page. That blog is a mix of technical stuff and ads of our training.<br>I turned the other blog into a personal one. 80% of that blog is my observations of IT. But once in a while I use it too to announce some events that are important to our business.   I don\'t see anything wrong with it.<br><br>I don\'t publish there any PR announcements of other companies even though I receive lots of such emails - just delete them.<br><br>As long as I\'m not bored with blogging, I\'ll keep doing it. Tried twitter for a little over a month, but it seems to be a waste of time. Some people just write something like I\'m now at this location. Great. Let\'s tell this to the entire world. Noise. If you don\'t have anything to say, just leave the keyboard alone. Lots of junk there and Twitter is the most unstable software I\'ve ever seen so far.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707818" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707818" href="http://www.peterjcooper.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Peter J Cooper</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707818" class="dsq-comment-message">Nice. I agree sooo much. A return to real content, real values. It might just catch on.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707819" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707819" href="http://capitolvalley.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Andrew Feinberg</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707819" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>I just got around to reading this, and it almost brought me to tears with how right you are.<br><br>What do you care about? Not just the shiny objects, but how have they changed your life?<br><br>You have a job. This isn\'t your job. Write about you, your family,  your interests, what you care about. Have a conversation, and I guarantee the less you engage in the "tech blogosphere" and the more I see of the guy I spent a week in DC with, you\'ll be on the right track.<br><br>What excites YOU?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707820" href="http://tokbox.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Damon Billian</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707820" class="dsq-comment-message">In short:<br><br>The larger bloggers have become exactly what they claimed not to be. Some of the larger blogs are businesses, no different than the NYTimes or any other medium.<br><br>The focus has been on expanding distribution, be it via the new tools that enhance the blogging medium or some other method (Twitter, FriendFeed, etc.).<br><br><br><br>Focus has been on friends (twitter, facebook, friendfeed, etc.). This is the old quantity over quality argument...<br><br><br>Tech blogs, in particular, all tend to gravitate towards the same topics. See below:<br><br>Microsoft xxx<br>Google yyy<br>Twitter zzz<br>Yahoo and Microsoft xxx, yyy, zzz<br>Apple aaa, Iphone this.<br><br>This is honestly the first post of yours I\'ve read in a bit, for a wide variety of reasons. If some of the tech bloggers focused on the reason(s) why they started blogging to begin with, I am certain that many things would change for the better (simply for the love of talking about the things that they love) . Right now, and I say this with all honesty, the average person probably questions the honesty of many of the blogs and/or the intent behind a post of any sort.<br><br>And, without sounding like a complete ass, the average person only cares about the following:<br><br>1. Does it make my life simpler?<br>2. Does it help me keep in contact with the ones I love?<br>3. Does it make my life better?<br>4. Can I still send email?<br><br>Too many of the technologies launched these days are more advanced than the average person cares to use. I have a wife, one  that is not a techie at all, and she questions why we spend so much time on things not connected to establishing real relationships with real people. She almost crapped her pants when two of my friends, and yours truly, were stuck on laptops not talking to one another whilst in the lush beauty of Koh Samui, Thailand.<br><br>Even if she (my wife)  isn\'t as tech smart as I am, I am starting to actually question if she might be smarter than I am.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707821" href="http://treadaway.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Chris Treadaway</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707821" class="dsq-comment-message">Find me anything that hasn\'t been overtaken by business interests.  Hell, they\'re about to rename Wrigley Field!!!<br><br>Other facts:<br>- search engines really love blogs,<br>- search engines love comments even more,<br>- a lot of people are looking for an angle to get heard above the "noise",<br>- publishing tools have never been easier to use.<br><br>i.e. the problems are just beginning and the only current solutions require "un-democratizing" the Web.  there is no easy short-term fix.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707822" href="http://catsonkeyboards.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mark Graybill</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707822" class="dsq-comment-message">Several good catches here, Robert. Applause from this quarter. Don\'t beat yourself up for covering new tech toys when there\'re economic problems going on, though. That\'s not the problem. I think you\'re on the right track when you\'re concerned about the lack of follow-up to early reports, and the general lack of depth.<br><br>Go ahead and do the early reports, but come back with more later. As to the folks getting on daily with Win2K/etc., I think a realistic assessment of where the new stuff gets us with respect to that is something worth commenting on. I often find myself asking where I stand now with my present systems vs. my Kaypros of years ago. There are a lot of places I can easily point out real-world results showing my present situation is better--but not everywhere, and its worthy of some concern and reflection.<br><br>My gray Win laptop is the one with the tattered old "Linux, It\'s not just for breakfast any more" sticker on the lid. ;)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707823">Lisha Sterling</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707823" class="dsq-comment-message">This article is *exactly* like the conversation we\'ve been having amongst the founders of Crictor.co.il. I don\'t want to talk about business. I want to talk about technology, the juicy, hard-core, how-the-heck-did-you-guys-DO-that?! questions and the what-else-can-we-do-with-this questions and the sociological questions of how all this stuff is changing us, changing our societies and changing life as we know it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707825" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707825" href="http://laibcoms.asia/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JC John Sese Cuneta (謝施洗)</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707825" class="dsq-comment-message">I actually read every letter, periods, and commas, which I seldom do nowadays because there are just too much content to absorb and get updated with.<br><br>I can relate to most of what you\'ve said, and I can imagine the rest.  Been there, done that.  It was the past weeks that I also started thinking about blogging in general, not just for myself but for everyone.  It evolved, but just like you said, it evolved to become just another medium for PR Agents.<br><br>As someone who also acts as a PR Agent (on an unofficial level), I am guilty to that practice.  Shape the bloggers to be a PR tool, no more and no less.  But ask me, do I allow it on my blog?  Not much (I used to).  I realized, there are just too many sites and blogs out there who are doing the same thing, why follow?  And I don\'t blog to become their PR tool.<br><br>Also true that most A tech bloggers caters to the Western World, where most of the English speaking nations are.  Here in the Eastern Hemisphere - ASEAN, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Oceania, we are mostly ignored.  Yes, most of us can\'t relate with all the Apple stuff being blogged (I ignore them all, I don\'t even care about iPhone).  Only few English speaking Easterners care about Apple.  Yes it is a good product - but "we already know that", anything else we don\'t know?<br><br>Sadly, as much as we want to cover that "anything else we don\'t know", we do not have access to that as much as you guys in the West have.  In this side of the world, it is all about politics and we are tired of it.<br><br>So can we all or most of us go back to the "golden years" of blogging?  It is about LIFE.  Go back to it and let\'s retrace AND enhanced it for the future.<br><br>Are you in?  Or are you out?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707826" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707826" href="http://karthickgopal.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Karthick</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707826" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, In the possibly related posts there is a 404 on the "Why I Blog" link<br>the link which is at <a href="http://metadatta.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/why-i-blog/" rel="nofollow">http://metadatta.wordpress.com/2007/03/02/why-i...</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707827" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707827" href="http://almaer.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dion Almaer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707827" class="dsq-comment-message">This is why I continue to post on <a href="http://Ajaxian.com" rel="nofollow">Ajaxian.com</a>. It allows me to focus on the technology, and not the other stuff (with the odd bit of politics that sneaks in due to standards work and the fact that humans are involved.)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707828" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707828" href="http://fibergeneration.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">marc duchesne</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707828" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert : maybe you\'re just realizing that you\'ve got to do something for the *community* - not to say *the World* ;-)<br>See, you and me we\'re born the same day same year. It\'s time for our generation to prepare the ground for our children\' s children, don\'t you think ?<br><br>ps : what a tremendous step forward you\'ve made between Milan\' s birth day and today, right ?...</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707829" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707829" href="http://offur.com/BetterThanTechCrunch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">BetterThanTechCrunch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707829" class="dsq-comment-message">I disagree with Scoble. If you take a look at our publication you will see that most of our users do leave comments on articles.<br><br>TL - <a href="http://offur.com/BetterThanTechCrunch" rel="nofollow">http://offur.com/BetterThanTechCrunch</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707830" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707830">Jill</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707830" class="dsq-comment-message">Thank you so much for this! I subscribe to you on FriendFeed because I value your opinion and comments.   While I\'m not really a \'techie\', I really enjoy learning about new technology and gadgets.  I have also noticed the same info and rarely read any of my RSS feeds, but find myself going to Feedly,  and FriendFeed for my news.  I love that you said, and saw on this post, you\'re getting rid of the jerks! Kindness, tolerance and respect go a long way.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707831" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707831">Julie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707831" class="dsq-comment-message">Your entire article sounds more like a PR pitch for FriendFeed than anything and this is one of the major problems with bloggers these days.<br><br>They write advertisements for products and sites while trying to disguise them as articles. Blogs such as Techcrunch have become infomercials.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707832" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707832" href="http://www.agoracom.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">George Tsiolis</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707832" class="dsq-comment-message">Our success at AGORACOM came from turning financial discussion forums (far worse than blog comments) on their head by handing moderation control back to the members.<br><br>A reputation system (votes by other members + site activity) determines the ranking of every member on the site. The higher the ranking, the greater authority to delete posts and even terminate members.<br><br>As such, we now have hundreds of highly-ranked and trusted members providing moderation on the site.<br><br>It has served to eliminate 95% of the noise and increase quality by several magnitudes.<br><br>I would guess that a similar system would work very well for blog comments.<br><br>Regards,<br>George</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707824" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707824" href="http://nancyfolsom.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nancy</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707824" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi, Robert. You\'ve once again proved yourself as one of the rare people able to frankly reevaluate yourself and your direction, and, make it public. I respect that most about you. Tho\' it\'s not the only thing you\'ve got going, of course.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707833" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707833" href="http://www.theideasblog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jimconnolly</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707833" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi Robert,<br><br>I just blogged this "Scoble Wars: Attack of The Trolls"<br><br><br>Hope you enjoy it!<br><br>Jim Connolly<br><a href="http://www.thetechnewsblog.com" rel="nofollow">www.thetechnewsblog.com</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707834" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707834" href="http://solyoung.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sol Young</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707834" class="dsq-comment-message">For the top bloggers and RSS feed consumers, blogging is second life. It\'s an escape from reality with the ultimate effect being a reality disconnect.<br><br>Sewing the two worlds together is difficult for the top tier. Realistically, blogging brought them/you fame. Given the choice of being an idol focusing on celebrity topics vs normal life, what\'s more exciting? Many people have serious trouble hanging on to reality.<br><br>I know I\'m disconnected at times. I\'m arranging a geek dinner outing in Philadelphia while For Sale signs stand in neighbors windows for 12+ months. I use Google Docs on OS X, iPhone, N82, and EeePCs while my wife uses Win2k and Excel to wrangle hundreds of thousands of lines of data (65k per file).<br><br>Gary Vaynerchuk compared blogging to the 1980\'s hip-hop movement. He\'s exactly right... A few big names will become extremely famous. Huge numbers of others will try and fail. And the people that made it to celebrity status will have psychological issues and disconnects with the world.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707835" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707835" href="http://patternsofchaos.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tony</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707835" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert:<br>"We used to link to each other all the time, telling you when all the other cool bloggers have done something new and useful."<br><br>cheapsuits:<br>"The problem is the small blogger goes through life unheard much of the time. Big zero’s in the comments section."<br><br>The little guy who blogs purely out of a desire to share his thoughts can\'t get noticed. And it\'s not helped by the A-list bloggers when they\'re trackbacks are broken, and they don\'t respond when they\'re told about it (That wasn\'t you, Robert - but it\'s happened a few times elsewhere)<br><br>I have my own blog (shameless self-promotion: <a href="http://patternsofchaos.net/" rel="nofollow">http://patternsofchaos.net/</a> ) - and I like to think that I\'m offering worthwhile content. But I have no way to know, since, as far as I can tell, nobody reads it.<br><br>I can\'t help but wonder how many blogs like mine are out there, that I can\'t easily find. Blogging was supposed to give a voice to the little guy, but they\'re now drowned out by the big players - just like happens everywhere else.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707836" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707836">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707836" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, it\'s a free service, so take what will. But, like I always say, if you approach everything you hype up, and bet on the opposite, then you provide a very valuable service, telling the real movers and shakers what they can safely avoid paying attention to. Don\'t sell yourself short.  Whomever employs/sponsors you, invest heavy in their competitor, no more so evident as in the doubling WDC stock price. The \'Reverse Midas Touch\' you are gifted with, has tremendous value.<br><br>It used to be a closed-chummy-club, now it\'s all play-doh journalism niche-news hounding, but even yet still lots of good tech and non-tech blogs out there, but prayers chance they will ever be noticed. Blogging is just another power distributional curve, "blockbusters" still exist and those in the "long tail", might as well cash in chips for all the time and effort, hardly worth it. But when you do a massive rant, with machine-gun name dropping, you are beyond fixing. Nor do you really want to fix it, you are on top, occasionally insincerely self-flagellate and move on. That way you can say, I know it\'s broke, but it\'s the system...dontblameme.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707687" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707687" href="http://lounsbery.homeserver.com/Home/waltblog/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Walter Lounsbery</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707687" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>I\'ve followed your postings for several years.  This one made me jump out of my feed reader (RSS Bandit) to see your blog Website and check things out directly.  Clearly, blogging is now an establishment of its own.  Please continue shaking things up!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707684" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707684">james henry</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707684" class="dsq-comment-message">scoble is a personality, very much like geraldo rivera or rush limbaugh. his main job is networking and self-promotion. he is very, very good at both. he is also very good at adopting any new technology that will aid in both of these pursuits.<br><br>technologies that fall outside of personal productivity, he has little or no training to judge and rarely takes the time to find authorities who do. be warned: make business decisions using scoble\'s advice regarding technologies outside of personal productivity at your career\'s peril.<br><br>much like rush and geraldo, that small minority of people responsible for creating or managing technology  that read scoble do so for his entertainment value.<br><br>he is very entertaining.<br><br>just don\'t mistake his certainty for learned or researched insight.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707685" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707685" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707685" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707685" class="dsq-comment-message">James: what the hell are you talking about? When have you ever seen me recommend something I didn\'t personally get knowledgeable about? I haven\'t recommended SQL Server over Oracle or anything like that.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707686" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707686" href="http://scobleizer.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707686" class="dsq-comment-message">Chris: you are a real winner. I\'ve picked lots of winners too. I guess you forget the multiple months of praising Facebook that I did. I guess 90 million users isn\'t winning in your books. And there are plenty of others, too.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707683" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707683">Votre</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707683" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707683" class="dsq-comment-message">Your post was a welcome breath of fresh air.<br><br>One thought occurred to me after I read it: In some respects, technical blogging sets itself up for problems in that most of it takes the form of a "one-person" show.  Hubris is an easy trap to fall into when you\'re working alone.<br><br>Gathering and reporting the news requires a variety of skills (investigation, interviewing, writing, editing, fact checking, cultivating reliable sources, etc.) that have traditionally been handled by team members that brought their individual areas of expertise to bear on each of those requirements. In short, the skill set necessary to do a good job of reporting is usually beyond the compass of any but the most rare and gifted individual.<br><br>So why is it so many bloggers believe they have become such merely by virtue of the fact that they share their thoughts online instead of at a saloon?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707682" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707682" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707682">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707682" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707682" class="dsq-comment-message">You went from talking about it all day, running a few scripts, crying that they didn\'t conform to your edge-case needs, to hating it (after people complained your non-stop spam hijacked their feeds), and not using it much, not checking it in months, and then going gaga over the new shiny toys in Twitter and Friendfeed.<br><br>Plus at the time, Facebook was getting these insane deep-space bubble-territory valuations, knowing that you were hot on it, was a sign that it would cool seriously off, becoming just another fad, and it has, stooge Microsoft, wanting to be the cool kid on the block, knew not such.<br><br>And more people use MySpace, so can we call that a winner too? Raw numbers mean very little, the \'eyeball-accounting-era\' should have taught us that well enough. And Nielsen Online surveys, in April, showed only 22.4M, and seriously dropping...so from your 90 million to 22.4 million, I mean you called it perfectly right, just in reverse, predicting Facebook fatigue, just by getting interested in it. Valuable service indeed.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707681" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707681">Rk</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707681" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707681" class="dsq-comment-message">I am surprised to find you realize you were heading nowhere, by just staying in the race.<br>But, I guess you will back to your same ways, within few days.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707689" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707689" href="http://www.hansdoddema.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hans Doddema</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707689" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707689" class="dsq-comment-message">Great insights Robert, agree for a great part. It reminds me of preparing for my literature interviews in high school, when we just read the summaries of some great book. Yeah, we were missing out on great content, groupthink was all over the place.<br><br>Isn\'t blogging becoming like that in a sense? There\'s just so much content out there, so we skip straight to the summaries, and ignoring possibly useful, insightful, out-of-the-ordinary gems of blog posts and writers?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707688" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707688">manateepunch</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707688" class="dsq-comment-message">All I know is the A listers get 99.9% of the attention and the rest of us get table scraps.  You\'ve gotta have a REALLY new and creative idea to get everyone\'s attention these days.  A little link baiting dosen\'t hurt either ;)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707679" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707679">Anonymous</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707679" class="dsq-comment-message">Blogging has become a game and, more importantly, a marketing tool. Didn\'t you and your cohorts not define and heavily promote it as such?<br><br>Blogging has also become about rules; mostly, rules aimed at SEO, media relations, brand reputation, and most important for bloggers, self-promotion.<br><br>Blogging stopped being about simply writing and sharing years ago. Those days are gone and will not return. You can\'t go home again. Game on.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707680" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707680">GaryF</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707680" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707680" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert writes:<br>...I’m going to be changing my approach to being one that’s more practical and useful ... Do you agree or disagree?...What blogs are doing the best tech blogging?<br><br>Reply:<br>Yes I agree.  Thank you for noticing and implementing changes.<br><br>As for the best tech blogs - I don\'t know - I seek your help - but I didn\'t notice many of the 180 previous comments identify any.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707690">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707690" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707690">Scott C.</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707690" class="dsq-comment-message">I like coming here because it\'s an interesting Tech Blog...but I think it\'s pretty unfair for you to be so harsh on people who comment (and don\'t agree w/ your posts) and then say Blogging in general is oversaturated and apparently useless nowadays.<br><br>The truth is that a blog w/o the ability for people to leave comments is NOT a blog (it\'s just a standard ol\' webpage). The moment I get the impression a site is moderating comments so that only people who conform get heard, that\'s when I leave. Now that you\'ve made it clear that readers won\'t have an equal say on your site from here on out, you can expect a huge drop off. Honestly, this may be exactly what you want. Less readers, but more "me too" people. I dunno...I personally don\'t mind criticism if it helps me later on and when I\'m wrong I\'ll admit it.<br><br>As far as saying other blogs are pointless because they repeat info from other sources, that\'s unfair also. The whole point of most well-known blogs now is to keep up that visitor traffic for advertising reasons. Why YOU may not like it that sites A, B &amp; C are talking about the Microsoft/Yahoo deal, that doesn\'t make it any less of a good topic to post about.<br><br>Personally, I\'m absolutely sick and tired of all the Apple gushing that goes on in the tech community. I\'m almost positive the key bloggers of the world are Mac fanboys and use their insane web traffic (through Podcasts, Blogs, etc.) to try to push this on everyone else. I\'m getting to the point where I\'ll just ignore a person for awhile if they talk about the iPhone or how superior OSX is, but why should I have to? If you really want to be a different sort of blogger, blog about different things instead of complaining about what other bloggers do.<br><br>Maybe it\'s time for you not to blog anymore at all. I\'m not saying do it...but if you honestly feel like blogging is a chore, maybe that\'s a sign you should stop. I\'ve never thought blogging and business should mix because there\'s just too much risk of becoming blatantly biased...and when that happens, you better expect readers to be just as divided or leave altogether.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707678">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707678" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707678" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707678" href="http://markivey.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">markivey</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707678" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707678" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with Votre. Just because someone can write a sentence, have an opinion and carry on a blog doesn\'t make them a journalist/reporter anymore than my ability to throw together a dinner makes me a professional chef. Somewhere along the long we\'ve elevated blogging to a higher status than it is, that of opinions and commentary. There\'s nothing wrong with this--just quit trying to pretend it\'s a replacement for the NY Times, WSJ, etc. Indeed, like their old media colleagues, the tech bloggers spend a lot of time talking about the same companies--yes, gushing about Apple--rather than doing critical analysis and original thought. We need more of the latter, and less of the poor imitations of traditional media. Otherwise, what IS the point of blogging?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707677">\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707677" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707677" href="http://innonate.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nate Westheimer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707677" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707677" class="dsq-comment-message">Thoughtful post, Robert.<br><br>I agree with much of what you\'re saying, but wouldn\'t be so hard on most of the top bloggers, including yourself.<br><br>a) Everyone has trouble dealing with success at first, especially when it\'s been brought from the bottom up. How do you remain famous and down to earth!? It\'s tough.<br><br>b) The last four years have been the social bubble. Noise. Noise. Noise... and I\'m not talking economics and companies -- I\'m talking social interaction wise, with the "tech set." This will mellow out (though we\'ll always, due to our closeness with innovation, be a little hyped up in this area).</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707676">\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707676" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707676" href="http://joeduck.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JoeDuck</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707676" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707676" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert you are one of the great blogging ambassadors, and this post proves it.  No need to apologize - just keep on trucking my good man!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707675">\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707675" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707675" href="http://joeduck.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JoeDuck</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707675" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707675" class="dsq-comment-message">Adding my .02:  I do not think should be about *people*, rather about *ideas*.     I think we need more sites like TechMeme that focus attention on the conversation and then surface many conversations about the topic.   Yet even TechMeme fails to surface most of the good commentary, which is buried by the "OK" posts by the big guns in blogging that get most of the links.  Solution?   After a brief innoculation period to eliminate spam, elevate the relative importance of new blogs until they have some traction - ie consider flipping the "old blogger wins" on it\'s head in blog search routines.<br>Downplay the value of links and look for better content ratings systems that use community input more effectively.   Former is risky but worth a shote, latter is happening, but slowly.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707673">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707673" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707673" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707673" href="http://www.rabidspacedog.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ethan Ambabo</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707673" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707673" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Jeff,<br><br>I really appreciate you standing up and making this statement. It takes a lot to discuss where you think issues have arisen and to take agency with finding a solution. You mention that there is a disconnect from many discussions taking place in this sector of the internet and the rest of the online community (and the world in general), but have you thought about ways to rectify that, or if it\'s even necessary to?<br><br>If you have some time, I had some thoughts: <a href="http://rabidspacedog.com/?p=435" rel="nofollow">http://rabidspacedog.com/?p=435</a><br><br>-Ethan<br>(former commenting troll hoping to rekindle discussion)</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707674">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707674" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707674" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707674">Tim Letscher</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707674" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707674" class="dsq-comment-message">Well put, Robert, especially the bit about being out of touch with the general population. I\'m primarily a designer but have a geek side that can get the best of me. Very few of my friends Twitter and fewer still Pownce. Some are just now getting Facebook accounts and it\'s actually made me more interested in the site again as more "regular" people my age (40) are signing on.<br><br>I ran into you at SXSW and even called your cell (following a Twitter post) to find out where Gary V was having his wine shindig (DeLoach). You\'re very accessible, so don\'t go changing! I look to tech blogs to find the shiny things and share them with us so don\'t go changing that either. Just stay true to yourself, brother; the rest will follow.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707672">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707672" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707672" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707672" href="http://greatestinsidersecrets.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Free Business Blogging Secrets</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707672" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707672" class="dsq-comment-message">I appreciate your opinion and the way you connect technology to human experiences.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707671">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707671" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707671" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707671" href="http://www.intrigue.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sylvia</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707671" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707671" class="dsq-comment-message">Have you considered backing away from the tech and, say, handwriting instead?<br><br>I\'d give you a link but as I actually lost my pen today, I don\'t think I\'m a good advertisement for luddites ;)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707837">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707837" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707837" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9707837">Tinu</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707837" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707837" class="dsq-comment-message">Updated Jarvis link  if no one has posted it- <a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/23/a-cure-for-curmudgeons/" rel="nofollow">http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/07/23/a-cure-fo...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707838">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707838" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707838" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707838" href="http://www.dahowlett.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">dahowlett</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707838" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707838" class="dsq-comment-message">@Robert: I could give you many reasons why tech blogging has \'failed\' but fairly top of list for me would be 1. a failure to undertake meaningful analysis that locates technology in and around business 2. an assumption that all new things are \'good\' without thinking about their implications 3. the PR driven nature of much of the stuff we see out there. 4. an unhealthy obsession with Google.<br><br>One of your prime sponsors is SAP. You know, boring old ERP, yet they remain one of the most interesting companies on the planet and have some of the most interesting and engaging people I\'ve ever met. As does Oracle, Adobe, Microsoft and a few others. They\'re old skool if you like but they get what delivers the bacon and pays the bills.<br><br>It may not be your thing but tech needs business just as much as business needs tech. That\'s how the money gets made to support Silicon Valley the way it does. Learn to love the business just like I\'ve had to learn to love the geeks. You might be surprised at what you discover.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707839">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707839" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707839" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707839" href="http://jaxtr.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jim @ jaxtr</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707839" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707839" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a very cool and thoughtful post. I definitely understand the feeling of information overload. So much is going on, it\'s kind of hard to wrap your brain around it some times. That said, I think as a tech blogger that you get a chance to be a little bit of a visionary. It\'s really easy to get caught up in rating the latest apple apps and trying to grab traffic from digg, et al by catering to a popular topic. It\'s also really fun, but taking a step back to look at the big picture and offer thoughts and musings about where it all may be headed, I think that\'s the fun part. And I think that sparks other people in the tech community and is a really valuable service.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9707840">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9707840" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9707840" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9707840" href="http://www.siyonizm.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kabala</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9707840" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9707840" class="dsq-comment-message">thank you</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-10844628">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-10844628" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-10844628" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-10844628">Bill</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-10844628" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-10844628" class="dsq-comment-message">Comments that are trollish are just as annoying as "I agree -- Way to go" type comments ("Sugar Gliders" if you will).  If you are really interested in dialog you need to moderate those comments as well.  You mention  "Why can’t commenters be nice".  I say why can\'t their be "ideas".  If I say "Scoble, your an ignorant slut" but pose a good idea and dialog whats wrong with that? But comments like:  "Well said, well done!".  No content, no idea, no nothing other than the poster seeing their words posted.  If you don\'t comment the trolls AND the Sugar Gliders the comment section will become like the stepford wives.</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-12305304">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-12305304" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-12305304" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-12305304" href="http://hsenag.info/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">How to</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-12305304" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-12305304" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks for your information</div>\
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