I’m unsubscribing from Memeorandum.
Reading Dave Winer this morning made me realize I’m just falling down a dark hole. It’s the same hole I was in in the 1990s when I posted about 100,000 items on various newsgroups: in a group the writer is in control, not the reader.
I miss my RSS reading. Reading RSS makes me smarter, not snarkier. Why? Cause I choose who I’m going to read. Pick smart people to read and you’ll get smarter.
Hint, the smartest people in my RSS are usually the least snarky. Why? Cause they could give a f**k about all the traffic.
Why is all the snark going on? Cause everyone wants traffic. Why did I call this the John Dvorakification? Cause he figured out in the 1980s (yes, he’s been at this so long) that if you attack a community (particularly the Apple one) that everyone will get all up in arms and will start talking about the attack. That translates into traffic. Traffic = advertising dollars.
Last night I spent a couple of hours in Second Life and found myself getting smarter again. Why? Cause I was hanging around with smart people and discovering a new world together with them. I was discovering new music in a record store there. I was learning new things. Experiencing new things. And there wasn’t any snark. And no one was begging me for a link. I’m so tired of that.
So, what do I mean by this?
Let’s go look at my feeds. What’s the first post I see? How about this one from Alex Feldstein. He links to images from the Hubble space telescope. S**t. One post and I’m already getting smarter.
Let’s keep going. Bob Lewis teaches me how to deal with a backstabber. Two-for-two. Neither of these got on Memeorandum.
Next. 43 folders has a post on 2 ways to make RSS readers smarter. Hey, you RSS guys paying attention?
Brian Noyes writes that .NET Rocks is talking about data binding and other geeky stuff (and that there’s a new .NET Rocks TV show too). On Memeorandum? Nope.
The Agile Management blog links to Brad Appleton who has great articles on Feature Driven Development and UML in Color Domain Modeling. I’m reading those two now and they are teaching me a lot more than Memeorandum has.
Over on the Software Marketing Resource blog I learn that Krugle is a new source-code search engine and that Windows Marketplace will help software developers market their software.
Andy Lark says that PR legend Harold Burson is blogging. I didn’t see that on Memeorandum either.
John Ludwig praises a football fan’s blog (hint, it’s very geeky). John’s a VC. Listening to VCs typically makes one smarter, if not richer despite the belief that VCs aren’t very smart.
Rob Fahrni, a software developer, has links to the operating manual for the Haunted Mansion at DisneyLand.
Anyway, it’s the little things in life that make you smarter. The little things don’t show up on Memeorandum. They do show up on RSS. Which is why I’m still subscribed to 847 smart people’s feeds.
Sorry Gabe, I’m not gonna look at Memeorandum for at least a week. The Sunday Snark just pushed me over the edge.
Wil: my RSS subs are shared on the right side of my blog. (Use the NewsGator one, it’s more up to date).
[...] Robert Scoble explains why I don’t care about traffic and why I don’t read Memeorandum or Tailrank. [...]
on the rise of trollblogs
I don’t know Robert Scoble at all, other than meeting him and drooling over his tablet PC at Gnomedex a couple of years ago, but I read his blog pretty faithfully, even though he works for the Borg. He’s a
Robert — I’ve come up with the HypterText Snarkup Language (HTSL) to both help publishers be more snarky and readers to avoid unwanted snarkiness.
Robert — I’ve come up with the HypterText Snarkup Language (HTSL) to both help publishers be more snarky and readers to avoid unwanted snarkiness.
Snarkness, talk radio, Memeorandum, Robert Scoble, Wil Wheaton and why RSS feeds don’t necessarily make you smarter
I was trolling around the A-listers looking for ways I could skewer them without justification and provide more traffic to my site, and I came across "The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)" over at…
Robert,
You need help! You really seriously need help.
http://theheadlemur.typepad.com/ravinglunacy/2006/03/robert_scoble_n.html
Get some help Robert! Step away from the computer and find a treatment program where you can return to sanity. Take all the time you need. We will be here when you get back.
Robert,
You need help! You really seriously need help.
http://theheadlemur.typepad.com/ravinglunacy/2006/03/robert_scoble_n.html
Get some help Robert! Step away from the computer and find a treatment program where you can return to sanity. Take all the time you need. We will be here when you get back.
Memeorandum and Fake Transparency
The top story on TailRank.com right now is a post made by Robert Scoble about taking a break from TailRank competitor Memorandum. Curiously, the topic shows up nowhere on tech.memeorandum.com even though similar topics frequently bubble to the top on b…
Duh. Some of us have said this for a very long time now. You were just hyping it 5 days ago. If only it didn’t take you a year to figure out crap that must of us see on first viewing, maybe you’d deserve your reputation.
Duh. Some of us have said this for a very long time now. You were just hyping it 5 days ago. If only it didn’t take you a year to figure out crap that must of us see on first viewing, maybe you’d deserve your reputation.
Me again. In Trackback #54, Jake Ludington infers that this post was manually blocked from appearing on memeorandum. The problem with this conclusion is that it DID show up on memeorandum. I’m not sure why Jake didn’t bother to check the archives. Just thought I would respond here.
Me again. In Trackback #54, Jake Ludington infers that this post was manually blocked from appearing on memeorandum. The problem with this conclusion is that it DID show up on memeorandum. I’m not sure why Jake didn’t bother to check the archives. Just thought I would respond here.
Gabe, if you had implemented permalinked memes like I asked then Jake’s search would be much easier.
Gabe, if you had implemented permalinked memes like I asked then Jake’s search would be much easier.
Hey, you need a life (outside Tech), you know there is a whole beutiful world out there without trackbacks, pings and links: go fishing, pick up bird watching, read a REAL book (not tech or business related),play with kids or listen to old peoples stories…and it comes without RSS, OPML and all that scary stuff.
Hey, you need a life (outside Tech), you know there is a whole beutiful world out there without trackbacks, pings and links: go fishing, pick up bird watching, read a REAL book (not tech or business related),play with kids or listen to old peoples stories…and it comes without RSS, OPML and all that scary stuff.
People like David Aaranovich are the John Dvoraks of MSM. This is not a new phenomenon, but you are right we must strangle the voles. When you strange a vole you cut of the oxygen supply and they die. Come to my blogsite and discuss the best way to strangle voles.
People like David Aaranovich are the John Dvoraks of MSM. This is not a new phenomenon, but you are right we must strangle the voles. When you strange a vole you cut of the oxygen supply and they die. Come to my blogsite and discuss the best way to strangle voles.
Speaking of good stuff for your RSS reader – seen this? JP is blogging – JP Rangaswami, CIO of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and it is very, very good.
While I’m here, thanks for the Feed43 tip – solved a mega problem for me on a non-RSS’d site. (no advertising required)
Speaking of good stuff for your RSS reader – seen this? JP is blogging – JP Rangaswami, CIO of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and it is very, very good.
While I’m here, thanks for the Feed43 tip – solved a mega problem for me on a non-RSS’d site. (no advertising required)
The 43folders RSS improvements article came up in the context of my newsreader recently; it sparked good discussion. I’m cheered to see it highlighted here; both points are valid. Feed expiration based on lack of attention would have useful implications for bookmark ordering as well.
The 43folders RSS improvements article came up in the context of my newsreader recently; it sparked good discussion. I’m cheered to see it highlighted here; both points are valid. Feed expiration based on lack of attention would have useful implications for bookmark ordering as well.
[...] It’s great to see a new interface arising for memetrackers, although it would be nice if you could expand the stories to see more content. It also appears that some of the stories are fairly out-of-date – they need to tweak it so new stories appear faster and old stories disappear. Once again, this isn’t a Memeorandum killer, but an interesting new spin on the memetracker idea. (And for the record, I’ve also eased off on my Memeorandum usage – reading RSS feeds may be time consuming, but it’s a far richer experience. And besides, GYM doesn’t really interest me.) This entry was posted on Friday, March 10th, 2006 at 10:58 am. Trackback from your own site. [...]
Less Snark, More Meat says Scoble
Scoble makes the point:
I miss my RSS reading. Reading RSS makes me smarter, not snarkier. Why? Cause I choose who I’m going to read. Pick smart people to read and you’ll get smarter.
However, I am starting to revert to the attitude I had when I wa…
Good point. With smart people, we can make the world better. With snarky people, we just add to the clutter.
Good point. With smart people, we can make the world better. With snarky people, we just add to the clutter.
[...] Last week Scoble explained why he was unsubscribing from Memeorandum. More recently he wrote: One thing I’ve enjoyed recently is just reading feeds and staying away from the Memetrackers (although, I’ll be honest, I’ve peeked at Memeorandum a few times, it’s a very hard addiction to break). [...]
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[...] His latest pronouncement The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum) has all of the classic hallmarks of Justification, Grandiosity, Denial, and Delusional Behavior that scream that Robert is in trouble. He starts: ‘’I’m unsubscribing from Memeorandum. [...]
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