Scoble hype around the world
You know your life is totally out of whack when major news outlets write stuff like this:
The Guardian: Who is Robert Scoble and does anyone care?
PC Magazine: Gates vs. Scoble Smackdown. (Um, Jim, can you tell me what kind of Merlot you were drinking when writing this? I'd love some of that! Heheh.)
Redmond Magazine: No more Scoble to kick around. (What, am I going somewhere?)
Inquirer: Ego-crazed Scoble burns bridges. (Heheheh. What I love is that this headline got Valleywag to join in with its own headline: How to make news from nothing: The Inquirer's hyperbole.)
The Economist: Blogging Off (If there was one thing that put me on the corporate blogging map, it was being in the Economist. That magazine is more influential with executives than even the New York Times.)
Whew, all this because I took a new job.
Oh, several people asked whether I knew Bill Gates would quit this week. I had absolutely NO idea until minutes before I posted about it.
Sometimes in life you gotta get lucky. Making my decision last weekend instead of this weekend was definitely lucky.
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June 18th, 2006 at 10:51 am
For the record, I understand the Inquirer got their story from me.
See http://www.strumpette.com/archives/135-EXCLUSIVE-Ballmer-Said-to-Want-Scoble-Killed!.html
- Amanda Chapel
June 18th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Amanda: heheh. Steve actually wrote me and said he’ll miss me and thanks for the advice.
June 18th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
This was definitely Robert’s Best Week Ever (although, unfortunately, you didn’t merit mention on VH1’s “Best Week Ever”).
At least once before in history, the phrase “Bigger than Jesus” was uttered, and I think it worked out fine for them, so Robert, it can be said safely that you’re now bigger than Jesus.
June 18th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Excuse me? It was my understanding that Robert is the Second Coming.
:)
- Amanda
June 18th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Rick: if I’m bigger than Jesus why isn’t my book outselling the bible?
June 18th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
i suspect thats because you don’t have millions of preachers advertising it around the world :P
June 19th, 2006 at 4:47 am
hey Robert!
wish u all the best wherever u land up.
incidentally i also put in my papers around the same time u did. only difference is the world doesn’t care who I am :D
do keep in touch… i’ll be kaushal [at] gmail
June 19th, 2006 at 5:10 am
hey Robert!
wish u all the best wherever u land up.
incidentally i also put in my papers around the same time u did. only difference is the world doesn’t care who I am :)
do keep in touch… i’ll be kaushal [at] gmail
June 19th, 2006 at 7:32 am
Actually I wasn’t drinking wine at all. I was sitting in the eye doctor chair, getting new contact lenses fitted when the thought came to me… So I guess this is what happens when I can’t see anything — my brain goes into overdrive!
Just trying to get people to think a bit. But you do have to credit yourself… you turned around Microsoft’s image almost singlehandedly, which is something gates and co could never do.
June 19th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
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July 13th, 2006 at 10:13 am
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