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Re: Hoax

Hue Mann — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:50:17 -0000

Dear John,

Have bridge steel available. Last used to span lowlands (also avaiable). May be used to reconnect reason to reality.

Also have brother-in-law able to transport same at reasonible rate.

Lemme'kno Bubba

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John Dowdell — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:57:15 -0000

"Sigh. They got me to bite hook, line, and sinker. Got to be more skeptical. I hate these things too. It’s one thing to do it on April 1. A whole nother thing to do it on April 11."

Robert, every day is April Fools Day! :)

(Seriously, as web readers we need to be skeptical, because some out there are trying to influence us.)

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Robert Scoble — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:29:22 -0000

Roscoe: yes, there are lots of examples of hoaxes I didn't fall for. But, what's your point?

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Roscoe — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:11:02 -0000

Has there ever been a hoax you didn't fall for, Scoble?

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Jon Gordon - MPR News — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:42:10 -0000

For a discussion on this topic: I posted audio interviews with Ed Kohler and Scoble on my blog, wavLength.

http://minnesota.publicradi...

It may also be the subject of my public radio show, Future Tense, on Monday.

Re: Hoax

Robert Scoble — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:30:24 -0000

Ed: true, I was a bit skeptical. Sounded a bit like too much of a move up in the world. Now, if they called on Leo, THAT I would believe! :-)

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Ed Kohler — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:01:05 -0000

Robert, it seemed like you were at least a bit skeptical since you included a question mark in the headline of your post. April the 13th would be WAY too late for something like this, but the 12th with a hint that it's 11 days late? Sure.

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JoeDuck — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:48:23 -0000

I'm not enjoying some of the pre/post April Fools stuff. Tech news is hard enough to follow when it's reliable. I can handle the April 1 stuff but this was ridiculous - blogs have enough credibility problems as it is, we don't need to spend time second guessing every story.

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Se7en — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:24:47 -0000

Sigh, and bloggers wonder why they aren't considered credible. Newsflash to Ed-April Fools jokes aren't that amusing on the net anyways-11 days later doesn't even qualify, except as trolling at the expense of credibility. Congrats on all the extra hits at Robert's expense though, I guess.

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Rex Dixon — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:17:35 -0000

Don't feel bad. I woke up to this, and wrote the congrats post, only to have to quickly retract it with a "we have all been fooled" post.

I will agree that April 12th is a bit late for an April Fool's joke. Personally speaking, I think the holiday/event is a stupid one.

Rex

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Robert Scoble — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:13:37 -0000

John, good point. I changed my links to nofollows.

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John Caruso — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:07:04 -0000

Obviously this joke was done for extra inbound links by leveraging the hoopla surrounding Imus. That's pretty shady if you ask me.

Scoble - You should go back and edit your article and change links to his site to all rel="nofollow" links and ask all others who wrote about this story to do so as well.

His site may already have decent PageRank, but he doesn't deserve any more from you. One should earn PageRank, not scam others to get it.

Re: Hoax

Robert Scoble — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:05:42 -0000

Sigh. They got me to bite hook, line, and sinker. Got to be more skeptical. I hate these things too. It's one thing to do it on April 1. A whole nother thing to do it on April 11.

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Ed Kohler — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:37:04 -0000

You got it, Marie.

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T3k — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:03:47 -0000

This is a 11 day old april fools joke.

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Marie Germain — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:34:51 -0000

Robert I think this is a joke--a delayed April 1st spoof. There is no way CBS would shift this audience in this way. Gosh when will spoofs and parodies end. We need to be more discerning. LOL

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Augie De Blieck Jr. — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:48:35 -0000

Just what I needed -- another reason to hate April Fool's Day. Please note the sentence at the end of the blog entry where he mentions that he's running 11 days behind. . .

Re: Hoax

Robert Scoble — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:21:34 -0000

LayZ: I agree with you there. It's just interesting to me that a videoblogger got picked to be a substitute.

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LayZ — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:18:42 -0000

Clearly a stop gap, like the link says. "until a permanent replacement is found". CBS needs to fill the time with something. But NO WAY this carries an adequate audience for Imus' time slot, or makes up the $15MM in lost advertising and syndication revenue CBS will realize by their over-reaction in firing Imus. Clearly that went with a knee-jerk reaction given they didn't have an adequate replacement lined up. A more likely long term replacement could be "Mike and Mad Dog" given that WFAN is a sports-talk station. No way a tech show lasts in that time slot on that station.