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John Stark — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:23:43 -0000

First a note about BMW iPod integration: you must have noticed that Mercury is showing TV ads with iPod specific attachments - Mercury! Ok, so it offers no real integration per se, but still, the nod is there.

Podcasts are a way of hearing something different and interesting to listen to without 25 mattress store commercials per cuommute. Certainly I use my iPod to filter out crap I don't want to listen to...

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Casey McKinnon — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:42:46 -0000

Cali's a lucky girl. I wish I was able to quit my day job to do this full time... then I might not have to go to bed at 5am and wake up at 8am!

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Mary Wehmeier — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:54:57 -0000

Robert: Sorry to hear you're leaving MSFT. I totally understand why you made your decision. Kids are only young so long-- and if you snooze you lose.

One other thing... The rich man isn't the only one with the audio plug in his new BMW. Our nephew Cory, just got a new SCION XB, with the audio plug installed. Not bad for about $15,000. Sure beats the hell out of the price of the new X5 BMW we looked at 3 weeks ago at over $50K!

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Patrick — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:19:55 -0000

Robert,

I've read your weblog for quite some time. I work at Microsoft as well (although considerably lower profile than you). I'm a divorced father of two boys.

You'll never regret living closer to your son.

This Microsoft stuff and podtech as well, while nice, will never compare the work you do as a father.

Enjoy the extra time with your son.

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Heather — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:56:56 -0000

I just want to know where the mall is with dozens of shoe stores. Please tell me ASAP...I need to know! It sounds like a wonderful place where I'd like to live.

Kidding aside, best of luck, Robert. I am sure that you will continue to do great things.

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khushi — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:17:16 -0000

I wasn't really a regular reader of this blog. Was going thro BBC news and saw news about Mr Scoble. and have been stuck to this reading since past two hours. All snippets/comments/trackbacks. They have been overwhelming.

Got stuck at the lines :
"My ethical system says that you should reinvest your talents and your luck to make the world a better place."

Good luck. You'll find me on your blogs more than often now. Good for me.

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Patrick Chanezon — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:43:56 -0000

I recommend your book to all my colleagues at Google, thanks for the great job evangelizing corporate blogging.
I also liked your recent posts about what's important in life, they reminded me some great posts from the first blogger, Michel de Montaigne, http://en.wikipedia.org/wik..., in "Les Essais", circa 1580.
Good luck with your new company: looking forward to read (hear and watch) more of you.

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Dan Lyke — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:40:09 -0000

"For many of you Microsoft was that payoff." And for some of us you were the payoff, and the Microsoft content was overshadowing you.

So there are undoubtedly several readers like me who'd wandered off elsewhere over the years, who may be more consistent now.

Good on you for the move!

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Phil Gomes — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:38:07 -0000

Hey! Winer is saying move to the East Bay! DO IT!! I moved from there to LA last summer and I've missed it every day since! Props to da nickle-dime!!

Oh... And congrats on the move... *8-)

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Mike Lopez — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:54:42 -0000

w00t! I've never been happier for someone I don't even know. I posted a while back I'd like to see what you could do without the restrictions of big co and now we'll get to find out. Congrats.

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dmad — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:45:51 -0000

@46. Ah, I see. So it appeals to a market that has no money to buy the products being advertised on the site? Interesting model.

"The place where people hang out?" What people? Not normal people, or people with all the money.

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Tim Bowen — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:41:15 -0000

Good timing. Amazon delivered your book "Naked Conversations" on Saturday and after reading the first few chapters I checked techmeme and your name was all over it.

Great decision, Great Book. Your are certainly a visionary in this open-source marketing movement.

Now Cuban's Mavericks just need to win the title and help bring blogging further into mainstream culture.

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Sweet — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:29:28 -0000

Amen. The notion of you being just another irrelevant blowhard without information I need fo my livelihood is priceless. I would have personally bought you a ticket to bloviated obscurity.

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rockatanescu — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:24:58 -0000

Whoa, I'm still messed up by the big "Scoble quits Microsoft" thing floating over the internet. But I should say "way to go, Robert". You'd rather do what you like most and that's one of the things I like about you a lot.

I'm not one of your regular readers, but this shift made me subscribe to your feed. You've just won one :)

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Robyn Tippins — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:21:40 -0000

While we'll miss your MS news, I look forward to hearing from you at PodTech. I'm a podcaster/vidcaster and the space is very exciting.

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Stephen Skarlatos — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:24:42 -0000

Best of luck in your new adventure. I hope it allows you to balance family, job, and blog...

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Christopher Coulter — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:10:44 -0000

Another one in the "rants about podcasting and videoblogging industry and how lame it be" series... ;)

Podcasting Reality

1. Commodity Market Already - Existing content (Radio, TV, Video) can be flipped over without much more than an re-encode. It's a pre-made commodity market, no need to pay Silicon Valley charlatan-hustlers thousands of dollars to "show you how".

2. Start Line on the Faddish Cycle - Like anything "new new" on the net, it runs through the usual cycle: massive experimental euphoria with tons of venture-speculation money thrown around, and then the serious bubble-popping cool-off phase, with a full-circle return to rational value-added markets. World changing? No. Some limited niche value? Yes. Hucksters trying to quick cash in on the boom before the bust? Tons.

3. Not Discoverable - No channel surfing, no radio-scanning check-out concepts; you can skim thousands of news sites and blogs (or other online reading materials) in no time, not so with podcasting.

4. No ROI - It takes a heck of a lot longer to listen to podcasts, over reading the same material online. Most of the market, outside of certain niches, isn't going to invest that time.

5. Lack of Talent and Quality - People want to hear existing Radio/TV shows and Audio Books, not geeks and goofball Rocketbloomish amateurs playing with gadgets and whatnot. And the podcasting hypesters are populated with the eternally wrongheaded "Medium is more Important than the Message" types. As lesser barriers to entry, is only that, it doesn't confer any sort of talent or quality along with it.

6. Passivity - The market wants media without work, pre-packaged in easy forms, not eternal geeky tricks of twiddling and syncing.

7. Land Grabbing - Audio Books, Audio/Video Training Material, loooong been around. If a certain codec now works on a portable device, it's now somehow podcasting?

8. Over-hyped - It's all venture-fueled, a new new techie hot branding -- firehose money at it. It's JUST a distribution mechanism; and just because you can do it and download it, still doesn't mean anyone is listening.

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Frank Mucklo — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:25:40 -0000

As a long early podcast junkie I have always wanted to listen to them while driving. The pain is moving the ipod back and forth between the car and computer. I want a wireless device for the car which will update podcasts from my wireless network overnight and be ready with fresh casts in the morning. I was hoping the UMPC would serve this purpose but it is two to three times too expensive. Drive time has the biggest media audience and I believe that's your future market if we can get cheaper connected devices. "Push" radio will die when we get the equivalent of a TIVO for podcasts in our cars. Success to you in your new venture.

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Hash — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:46:15 -0000

"..Hash: that’s bullshit. .... And I can think of half a dozen other instances where Microsoft was the underdog and had to vigorously compete."

Correct. And the Novell's at the time DID NOT use their dominance to illegally muscle out/crush Microsoft. I believe the phrase is called barrier to entry. You may want to re-read the Findings of Fact in the DOJ trial. Unless you are saying that case was BS too.

http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/ca...

p.s Do us a favor and in one of your future high profile MS Exec interviews ask Gates or Ballmer this simple question:
Who contacted Baystar to invest in SCO, and Why? And under who's direction were they acting?

p.p.s Leopards don't change their spots.

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Sankar Viruthachalam — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 06:44:00 -0000

Good luck with your new job. All the very best!!!

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Mary Gilmartin — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:03:56 -0000

Good luck at the new job. I mentioned this on our business blog because I think where you are, the business world should watch. I look forward to hearing about your new company and what we will learn from that.

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Wesley Parish — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 04:55:59 -0000

"Imagine a mall that only had one shoe store. How boring. The most vibrant mall has dozens of shoe stores. How can they all survive? Easy, their competition draws more people into the mall."

Interesting argument. I notice that wasn't the one Microsoft itself used during the anti-trust trial. Particularly in relation to the MS-IE and MS Windows relation. What was wrong with giving MS Windows users the chance to try out alternative web browsers? You've just made BillG and SteveB guilty of perjury.

And in relation to sports, I know it very, very well - the more competitors you have, the more vibrant your sports code. Microsoft's statements during the anti-trust trial would get it laughed out of any sports league. It's perfectly alright to compete fiercely on the football oval or the hockey arena - heck, it's the only way to have any fun! You can't get out what you never put in, in the first place, and from first bounce to final whistle, you have to play the ball, but mark your opponent and contest the ball every time. "cutting off their airsupply" - playing the man - takes away the fun, unless you prefer fighting to winning.

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angsuman — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:51:42 -0000

Wish you best of luck in your new venture.

--Angsuman