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Hängematten — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:00:00 -0000

Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. Greetings

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meechwings — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:25:12 -0000

Wow, you're really taking this criticism hard.

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Michael — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:34:17 -0000

@44 I have no doubt a lot of people watch. But it seems the issue you raised is that people don't link to them. Isn't there a difference? I can watch a movie, think it's bad and consequently tell my friends not to bother. Sort of like not linking to it. Anyway, I find your videos interesting, but apparently some at Wired do not. Not a big deal.

I think your Paris Hilton example is kind of off the mark. People like to watch train wrecks. And no one expects Paris Hilton to offer them anything of substance. She's meeting people's expectations. I think people expect, and more often than not, get substance from you. I just think your volume of links would be some type of indicator. I could be wrong.

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Robert Scoble — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:40:21 -0000

Michael: lots of people watch, or are interested in, Paris Hilton. Does that make her work "quality?"

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Toivo Lainevool — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:05:00 -0000

I think this video got the hype because this is the area that people are paying attention to. Where is search going - where is the attention going to end up.

You said a lot of things that were controversial and kid of out there, but it struck a chord because that's what people care about. Who is going to be the next Google? What is search going to look like in four years? Nobody knows, but you stuck you neck out there and took a guess. Will it be right? i don't think so. But at least it got us talking about it. If I really want to know about the future of search I'll listen to John Battelle. If I want to get some more crazy ideas, I'll listen to you again. And that's a compliment, by the way.

Mad props, and it was great chatting on kyle last night. (I think this is the longest comment i have ever made on a blog.)

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Michael — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:04:55 -0000

If sites don't link to your videos, I wonder if that is not an indicator of the quality of the work? Don't people generally link to things they find interesting?

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something2chewon — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:47:29 -0000

All this sounds like child birth, lots of pain, crying but joy in the end.

Congrats Scoble....................perspective, enjoy.

Greg

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Greg — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:56:03 -0000

Ignore them, they are idiots...

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andyfox1979 — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:29:20 -0000

i usually say that scoble is a jerk,and i've also said that Mahalo sucks, but you know after seeing this video there really is something to it. It does have a personal touch that Google has never had and never will have. I sorta like that. I think the key thing is that good SEO costs money, and it always will, whether its paying google or paying mahalo or any other goddmaned company.

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Charles Edward Frith — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:41:33 -0000

Ease up. I only ever use Mr. Scoble's views as an opinion. A valued one but not a digital tech deity.

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D. Lambert — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:47:40 -0000

I'm constantly amazed at the stupid stuff that ends up getting attention while lots more "deserving" material goes unnoticed. I get more links to a post about the PHB's etch-a-sketch laptop of Dilbert fame than posts about what's missing in developers' skillsets today.

Danny touched on a big part of it, I think. It's about controversy. Big, audacious, over-the-top, outrageous statements make better headlines, and they elicit reactions. Like the Batboy, you've just got to look when someone says Google is going down.

Sadly, meaningful material frequently doesn't have the punch that an off-the-cuff flame sometimes does.

But it's attention, right? And you've got a platform that you can use to promote your "good" stuff, right?

It could be worse.

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MDB — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:38:09 -0000

If people aren't disagreeing with you then it means you are doing something wrong. The fact that people are, just means you are doing something new or something different. You are challenging people's ideas and the world needs more of that.

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Danny Sullivan — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:36:34 -0000

Seriously, Robert -- why didn't they link to your other videos? Sure, I'll take the bait and state the obvious.

The other videos weren't the news this week. The Wired article, like it or not, was about the video series you did on search and the ruckus it kicked up.

Your other videos deserved more attention? Hey, I haven't watched them -- but were any of them about how one of the most powerful earners on the web (Google) was going to get wiped out by a revolution?

The other videos weren't about the current story. The other videos, as you know well, have been pointed at when they are fresh news (and you drum up those links).

In addition, Wired did in fact acknowledge the work you have done in the lead, talking about your "tech analysis cred" you've earned through them. Sadly, for you, its assessment was that took a "nosedive" for talking about stuff in an unconvincing manner to those who know search more deeply than you. You know -- like me, who you yourself have said on several occasions is a top search expert.

You sparked a lot of discussion. You got people thinking. And I find it hard to believe you didn't expect this was going to happen. Crying now that not everyone agreed with what you said just doesn't cut it. And dropping a million video links in your defense that aren't on the topic doesn't help.

Oh, and that search marketing video? Really -- you want me to invest time watching a video with one single search marketer that tells me people click on ads, those clicks cost money and you can measure conversion? This is news? This is compelling video? Look -- go out, interview a lot of people and give me a comprehensive look on a subject that is told best through video, and you might get me. But that video "reads" like a billion other one-off interviews I've read over the year -- and read faster than it takes to watch a video.

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Matt — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:13:21 -0000

I wouldn't sweat it.

As far as the other videos they should have paid attention to, it's easier to write-up condemning articles then it is to actually spend the time to think about things and write real responses to them (would be my guess as to why they ignored them). I probably could have been more articulate in making my point, but I'm tired, so hopefully you get the idea.

Why discuss education when it's easier to give you grief about "x"? (/sarcasm)

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Chris — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:01:40 -0000

Why sweat over what Wired thinks. For the most part, it's just a coffee table tech mag, anyway ;)

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Baiju.k.b — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:58:28 -0000

Nice video knowledge...!!

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Steven Livingstone — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:53:05 -0000

Robert - an ideal pickup for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Steven — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:59:02 -0000

Robert,

It seems like some of those online are not too much different than my local ( and by the way, national news) on tv! Same behavior, go for the sensational crap for attention and deliver the viewer to the ads.

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Vic Berggren — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:55:17 -0000

#23

In this case Jason is only a lightning rod for criticism because he doesn't like SEO.

That rational kind of looks like the SEO crowd just gets overly emotional whenever someone has something to say about SEO that they don't agree with.

Robert make room in the kook camp buddy, I think your on to something.

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searchengines — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:53:42 -0000

Would it be possible to have transcripts of all the top videos for those who have less of multimedia bias for consuming information.

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AndyBeard — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:38:37 -0000

There are reasons that people don't link to things

The Pointit interview doesn't offer anything to my readers, they don't get involved in the "conversation" because as far as I know they don't have a blog.

p.s. I think both a comment and a trackback were filtered on previous posts by Akismet

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Dan Guy — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:36:11 -0000

The Wired piece was on you, not on the more interesting people at whom you've pointed a camera. Complaining that they did a piece on you rather than on your pieces on others is as useless as complaining that a dog has too few USB ports.

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Len Edgerly — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:17:55 -0000

In #21, I should have written "logos a logos" for "word to word," as opposed to "mano a mano." Logo a logo sounds better, but this is not a case of dueling visual brands. Then again, maybe that's what your detractors are trying to lure you into, each for the benefit of his own logo.

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Dawn D. — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:16:59 -0000

Robert, IMO, the backlash you got had much more to do with you seeming to back Mahalo than you personally. Deservedly or not (I'm too new to all this to know), Jason C. is a lightning rod for criticism and scorn. From where I sit, as an observant outsider, Jason is like the character in a tv show that people love to hate. Anybody who seems to side with him is going to get zapped.

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Matt_ — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:53:53 -0000

Its well known that Adario Strange is a profesional curmudgeon.