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Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

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Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Nick Douglas — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:52:44 -0000

Dear God, people, UNCLENCH. Scoble, I'm sick of people sending me links to your on-blog arguments. What happened to your conflict avoidance plan? I honestly think it was a healthy plan to pursue.

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Jason Lefkowitz — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:33:07 -0000

"there is no such thing as a “dedicated audience” now that there’s blog search engines like Technorati. Write “Amanda” on your blog and many of us will pay attention and try to read something deeper into it."

Huh, I wrote about Amanda on my blog last month ( http://www.jasonlefkowitz.n... ) and I wasn't exactly deluged from attention by A-listers.

Maybe Technorati isn't all it's cracked up to be? ;-)

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Thomas — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:39:01 -0000

...So what was the overall topic then :) ?

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Robert Scoble — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:12:58 -0000

Thomas: I'd hope that a site that aggregates many people's work together does better than my little old efforts. But what you should be comparing to is TailRank, TechMeme, and Digg.

Here's a chart comparing you to TechMeme: http://www.alexaholic.com/p...

And Digg leaves us both in the dust:
http://www.alexaholic.com/p...

So?

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Thomas — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:01:03 -0000

Just my 2 cents again, alexa says this:
http://www.alexaholic.com/p...
and the technorati race goes to you

but now let's close that unintentional discussion on value proposition or whatever 8/

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Robert Scoble — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:01:51 -0000

Jason: It's not a denounciation. Thanks for NOT reading what I'm writing. It's my opinion that Amanda isn't making the most of her opportunity and that Thomas could have done a LOT better job here.

If you thik that's a denounciation, then we can't even have a conversation here.

Thomas has more traffic behind him? Really. Can you back that up please? Cause Amanda linked to me today and she sure doesn't have it. Where's all this so-called "traffic?"

Also, why the anonymity. If you're going to make statements like that maybe you should come clean and let the world know who you really are.

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Jason — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:54:43 -0000

Rob, why not stop this denunciation? Actually Thomas got more user-traffic behind him than your blog.

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Steven — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:15:07 -0000

She is doing a video.

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Robert Scoble — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:33:10 -0000

brem: of course life is more than "value" or money or all that. I love sitting on the beach and picking lint out of my navel as much as the next guy. But when life hands you opportunity (as it has with Amanda) isn't it a shame when you don't do the most with that opportunity as absolutely possible?

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Robert Scoble — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:31:18 -0000

jeneane: well, since I left Microsoft my compensation went up and my readership went up, so my value is doing just fine, thank you very much.

Where the hell did you get that I was basing interactions with Amanda based on her value here?

Ask Jason Calacanis if his job offer still stands for Amanda. Or, ask someone who prices out actors' compensation. A person's visibility affects their value.

And, when I say "value" I'm not talking about their value as a human being, but their value to drive economic change.

I also am glad that I have arrogant readers who love to "keep me in bounds."

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

brem — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:27:22 -0000

Robert: in life, not everything is about maximizing and profit.

Well, in my life it isn't.

Is that why I'm poor? hehe

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

jeneane — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:24:42 -0000

Holy crap, Robert. If we were basing our interactions with you based on "value"--which I am ever since you asked that only readers who add value to your life participate here--then what's your value now that Microsoft's behind you?

Man, you're out of bounds again. Close the Dave Winer playbook and be yourself.

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Robert Scoble — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:56:49 -0000

Christopher: if it were just me, I wouldn't say anything, but quite a few people say that the value of such an announcement is dramatically lower today than it would have been a month ago.

Like I said, she'll make a big splash in the pool. No doubt about that. But whoever does end up getting her probably will wish she would have signed a deal with her a month ago.

Even if that does end up to be Podtech, by the way. My feedback to her has been consistent ever since the first day (I left it on her blog so you can verify that).

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Christopher Coulter — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:52:22 -0000

Assuming you are the Judge and Jury of what determines "value", is the first mistake, maybe she already has something big that can't comment upon just yet...

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Robert Scoble — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:42:48 -0000

BradL: Let's assume I was mad. Why would I be? Because I saw a potential to get PR and make money for my new company and that potential had mostly evaporated. Let's look at the facts. A month ago Amanda's Unboomed site had MANY TIMES the traffic and attention it does today. So, any chance to hire her and make a big PR splash has already gone away. Anyone who hires her today will get far less PR than if they had done it a month ago.

If anything I'm sad at opportunity lost.

Yeah, she'll still make a big splash in the pool when she finally jumps into something, but that splash will be dramatically smaller than if she had done it a month ago.

It all makes me sad. Value evaporating without being used is sad.

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Christopher Coulter — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:38:56 -0000

It will still be news, if she gets something Burbanky or Hollywoodish...

These geeky tinker-toy games, matter not...

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

GuySie — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:35:40 -0000

Actually, though this combined effort doesn't seem too interesting to me (why exactly are Amanda's links supposed to be just as interesting as those aggregrated by all the services relying on hundreds of thousands of users?) I really like popurls. Great way to keep your senseless surfing habits contained to 1 site, so you can keep productivity up by not RSSing their feeds continiously.

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Brad L — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:00:49 -0000

Sorry scoble but you seem to be mad that you didn't get her for podtech?

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W.O. — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:35:57 -0000

You could put Amanda under an armadillo in south Texas and someone would know what she was doing there.

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Robert Scoble — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:17:49 -0000

Tim: there is no such thing as a "dedicated audience" now that there's blog search engines like Technorati. Write "Amanda" on your blog and many of us will pay attention and try to read something deeper into it.

No, it's not showing some limited imagination. It's what her audience is waiting to see from her since that's the EXPECTATION that she built up in her audience by almost solely appearing on Rocketboom for more than a year.

If she had done lots of blogging and video then the expectation would be different.

Have I gone overboard, though? Sure. Yeah, I'll cop to that.

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

tim — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:45:37 -0000

Robert, I respectfully have to disagree with you on this one, and I'm surprised you haven't yet corrected yourself, as you seem to have jumped the gun. It's pretty clear now Thomas was writing on the popurl blog for his dedicated audience, not launching a PR campaign, and they got it just fine and were happy to hear the news (check the comments). You can disagree if you like, but he doesn't have any more obligation to write on his blog for "normal everyday people" than you do -- it's easy enough for anyone interested and familiar with a Google search (except you, I guess) to find more info on popurls and amanda anyway.

As for Amanda being a video star, and everything she does having to have a video element -- well, that's showing some limited imagination, isn't it?

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

brem — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:35:47 -0000

Robert, I must admit I had no idea what Amanda would be doing at popurl. she had to explain it to me on her blog. Shaky press release, but hey... it's only a press release ;)

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Thomas — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:01:13 -0000

I'm neither forcefully hunting for new users nor involved in her personal goals with her projects - just wanted to enjoy that she's doing some exclusive cross-posting. sure, there might be more potential but i'm a few thousand miles away and we europeans just can't keep up with all the new-media juggernauts ;)

Re: Ex-Rocketboomer partners with PopURLs

Robert Scoble — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:40:56 -0000

Todd: the problem is that everyone is paying attention to Amanda cause she quit Rocketboom. So, EVERYTHING she does is going to get attention. The fact that neither her, nor Thomas, understood this is sad. This was a good opportunity for her to really help out a new site get some attention. And, it was a good chance for that site to link back to her, giving her some Google juice and traffic in return. Oh well. I'm getting bored now.