Scobleizer - Latest Comments in Things I don’t do

Re: Things I don’t do

Gavin Cargill — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:40:11 -0000

Does anyone know when or who started the "don't do" movement?

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flamingo — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:49:51 -0000

I found your blog whilst doing a search for nude girl photos, It looks like I have had a successful search ;)

Great blog, all the best.

Wayne.

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David Lloyd — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:15:35 -0000

Think you're missing the boat on Plaxo, Scoble. I've got 1700 contacts in Outlook, adding new ones all the time. (I'm the CFO of a startup company.) It makes my life *a lot* easier, not harder.

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Jeff L — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:36:53 -0000

Maybe you are too popular for services like LinkedIn and Plaxo, but you shouldn't put them down unless you've tried them....

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Andrew Ferguson — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:11:59 -0000

I won't:

1. Read partial RSS feeds
2. Join sites like Plaxo, LinkedIn, Friendster, Orkut or the like
3. Register for any website I can use BugMeNot with
4. Go through my spam box to see if I missed anything

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Fabrice — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:56:21 -0000

I won't comment on any of Scoble's post.

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Karl Lu — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:56:27 -0000

I won't buy a tag on 1000tags.com I don't care how web 2.0'ish they are, and never ever post anything related to sites like that anywhere. Wait a moment, didn't I just do that?

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Miles Archer — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:50:57 -0000

What about Skype?

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Thomas Hawk — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:20:43 -0000

Scoble, you can set up your Flickrmail to automatically forward to your email. This is what I do. Sometimes the mail comes in with their actual email address and you can just email them back from your reader and sometimes (if the person hasn't set this up) you only get their flickrmail and have to go back to Flickr to reply if you want. Still you certainly can set up your flickr to at least *read* all of your flickrmail

And if you want you can also set it up to get any other notifications you might want (when people comment on one of your photos for instance).

Not much work and one more way for people to reach you and find you.

Also I see that you rarely put photos on your blog site. When you post a flickr photo to your site it doesn't really effect your bandwidth because flickr hosts the image. It's also super easy, you can just hit blog this on the flickr button and instantly the photo is posted to your blog and you can write your article from there.

It may be that you intentionally don't want photos to clutter up your site but I know that having a good photo to go with a geek dinner that you throw or something like that can add to the quality of the article (in my opinion).

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dbarefoot — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:00:42 -0000

I will not fill out silly blog memes.

I hate the damn things. They seem to me to be content generation cheats for people who can't think of something to blog about.

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Deg — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:52:21 -0000

I rarely put up away messages any more for my instant messenger program.

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Velocity — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:18:37 -0000

I will not buy another VW
I will not help you figure out why AOL won't connect
I will not use MSN Messenger
I will not install stupid toolbars into my browser
I will not eat green eggs and ham!

Re: Things I don’t do

Morgan Schweers — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:18:43 -0000

Greetings,
A side-note... I *do* do LinkedIn, but that's because it's a very useful side-channel to companies and people you are professionally related to. It'll probably play a role in my next job-search.

That said, it's useless for someone like Scoble who has too many connections that it overwhelms with too much noise.

-- Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

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Morgan Schweers — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:16:36 -0000

Greetings,
I won't listen to 'podcasts' on my own (or talk radio, for that matter). Life is too short to deal with amateur spoken content that is not searchable, indexable, skimmable, or summarizable.

Contrariwise, I won't podcast. I'm not so arrogant to think that people are so desperate for content that they'd want to hear my rambling. If I were to teach (the one potential use of podcasting-style tech), it wouldn't likely be via speech either, because it's nearly impossible to 'write code' verbally, and have it be any use to a student.

-- Morgan Schweers, CyberFOX!

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Ray CHOW — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:08:01 -0000

I DO nOT listen 30mn postcast that say less than 3 lines in a post

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Guzzard — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:16:18 -0000

Umm make that NEVER believe what Oprah is talking about :)

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Guzzard — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 06:15:31 -0000

1.) I won't ever vote for a Democrat again after watching the hearings.
2.) I won't buy a MacBook
3.) I won't buy an iPod
4.) I won't buy an American Car
5.) I won't EVER hire a consultant who knows less than me.
6.) I will never believe that Google is better than Microsoft.
7.) I will believe Oprah knows what she's tlaking about.

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Guest — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:07:21 -0000

1. I won't register any software that launches a registration splash screen the first time I launch the program.
2. If asked to help a friend "fix" his spyware problem, I won't jump in till he agrees to use Firefox.
3. I will never use any product from Real because it feels the need to plaster itself all over my machine.
4. I will never send anyone a Messenger "nudge" and I block those who send them to me.
5. I won't use Powerpoint.
6. I won't ever "upsize" my Coke and Fries if asked.
7. I won't ever again tell my father to launch regedit.
8. I won't buy a motherboard from a company I can't pronounce.
9. I will never use a stand alone PDA.
10. I will never buy another game that requires STEAM.

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stic — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:38:09 -0000

blog? ;-)

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lynn eriksen — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:06:36 -0000

Okay 10th point.

I won't acquiesce (any longer) to the notion that 'Knowedge Is Power'. Look how much is out there.

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lynn eriksen — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:03:41 -0000

Robert, that's your best post in a long time.
Concise, to the point.

1) I won't use another aggregator unitl IE7.
2) I won't use Outlook tasks. I flag e-mails and try to keep the inbox as short as possible.
3) I won't start my own blog. Not enough to give and not enough time.
4) I won't keep up with 18 (or how many) ad supported sites for my stuff.
5) I won't test with out NUnit again. (Shame on me.)
6) I won't buy another desktop. Using an Inspiron 9300.
7) I won't build another computer. (I hope not, atleast).
8) I won't drink the kool aid, again. Longhorn = Cario 2.0. (Man, it hurts to say that. I want to believe. Maybe 3.0 will get it right.)
9) I won't belive this ridiculus *#$%@#@ notion that an HTML app can do everything a desktop can do. BS.
10) I won't have a 10th point. :)

Take Care.

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bubba — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:05:49 -0000

I don't tug on Superman's cape
I don't spit into the wind
I don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
I don't mess around with Jim...

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suominena — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:48:16 -0000

Plaxo is a life saver if you have a smartphone. As you are a geek by changing computers, smartphones frequently (more than the normal fellow anyway). The easiest way to have your contacts/appointments always up to date is using Plaxo. Has saved me more than once.

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dmad — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:53:22 -0000

and MS IT sort of made the Plaxo decision for him.

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Aditya — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:30:43 -0000

1. Won't stop refreshing C9
2. Won't switch to OSX
3. Won't stop being a super windows fanboy when linux/mac zealots are around