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Alert: Scoble is competing against Bloglines....

Bring back the linkblog! I have my cigarette lighter lit and it's held high.

Jeneane Sessum and I had a discussion about User/Consumer Generated Media a while ago (http://allied.blogspot.com/2006/01/20-or-cgm-or...). I favored Personally Produced Media (PPM), but she suggested the excellent Me To You (M2Y) media.

I used to think Petzold was pretty good.

I am about to launch a test soon to prove the point that resumes are dead, the new resume is your BLOG. Robert, since the larger the statistical sample, the more reliable the results, I hope I’ll get some link love when the test comes ... in the name of science:-)

if you read RSS feeds instead of Memeorandum

Gotta love how you drive-by develop up and then drop, wholesale dimissing. Everything has it's place if you keep it within it's proper context and not let the Web 2.0ish and viral marketing hype and the famed Microsoft overpromises run amuck and classic overwrought 'this vs. that' plotted scenarios. A steady diet of only feeds, makes you as isolated as a steady diet of Memeorandum, just practice diversity in informational sources from many differing input points and all will be fine. Memeorandum is what it is, a narrowized sourced beat on major flare points from various self-appointed A-List bloggers, UI Meter spikes on the blogosphere sands. But you knew that going in, that fact that you "abused" it replacing it for feeds outright, wasn't Gabe's fault. Not that I am defending memetrackers, but Memeorandum is Memeorandum, it's not the end all. Can be quite useful in some cases, all in the handling.

PS - Not really returning to the muck, just a loooong encode downtime boredom. Hi from Peoria tho. :)

I told him I didn’t want any job that required a resume.

Oh really? That's just insane. And I know you sent a resume in to get your Microsoft jobbie, member? I helped edit it. ;) Might not needed to Vic, but you sent it to someone (I still have the Indesign'ed fancy PDF somewhere). And I'd bet if the money is right or the situtation is perfect, you'd whip out a resume in no time flat. Say I offer you a million and a half year, but require a resume, you gonna go blogger smug? HR needs a job app for legal purposes, or you against that too? The point being, you didn't want the position in the first place, and for whatever reason it didn't meet your needs, so easy to snag it on the 'resume issue'. But what sheer arrogance, people need roadmaps, resumes are that.

Obligatory smack anti-Microsoft comment: Typical of someone from Microsoft to dimiss 'roadmaps'. ;)

Which app do you use/favour do you use to read RSS feeds?

Christopher, I am with Robert in that often a long-standing blog is better than a resume... BUT, I cut you a deal: you save $750K, hire me for the other $750K and I WILL write a resume right now:-)

"Bring back the linkblog!"

I prefer this type of posts instead of a link blog. Scoble more of these please. :-)

I would trade 1000 link blogs for a blog by Christopher Coulter!

I've just been sitting here thinking about podcasts, aggregators, and the upcoming apple clone of the tivo and what springs to mind is that network television is doomed, as is cable... once you have content on the web being aggrigated by like minded souls... I'll have my tv showing SG2, B5, star trek and myth busters and nothing else, and I'll be one happy camper.

Christopher: Vic asked me "you ever think about working up here" long before I sent him the resume. The resume was to convince everyone else. I think we're a bit beyond that now.

For someone who talks about the importance of a good, readable RSS feed, you don't really practice what you preach. How am I supposed to scan these entries that have twenty links on disparate topics, Robert?

Robert,

I'll be at the Mix06 next week and would be interested in meeting up. I tried the Mix06 site and it seems all you can do is create a new meeting, not search for existing ones. Are you expecting everyone who want's to metup create a separate meeting? Maybe I'm missing something...

-Joe

despite your hysteria, scoble, we ae a loong way from blogs replacing resume's. Why? Because we are still a long way from the majority knowing what a blog is... or caring for that matter. You might be right in the resume's aren't required in the circle-jeking blog community, but beyond that I think you are extremely isolated. But, i repeat myself.

"Advertise your local BarCamp here in my comments"

Ok, don't miss BarCamp Capetown, the first one in Africa.

Thanks.

"Advertise your local BarCamp here in my comments"

Ok, don't miss BarCamp Capetown, the first one in Africa.

Thanks.

No, can't afford Mix. Probably couldn't afford SXSW either. Sigh. I still have fond memories of Tech-Eds, but they were before your time. :)

Ah, who knows. Maybe my hob-knobbing days aren't quite ancient history yet. I hope not.

Has anyone thought of turning this on its head? How about I'm reading my next potential employer's blog? I sure as heck know my son will be.

>> I told him I didn’t want any job that required a resume.

Amen to that Robert!

Did you change flights at Hobby or IAH?

>> I tried the Mix06 site and it seems
>> all you can do is create a new meeting,
>> not search for existing ones. Are you
>> expecting everyone who want’s to metup
>> create a separate meeting?

I thought the same, a wiki works much better for this sort of stuff, so I put one up for us. It just needs a bit of publicity.

http://mix06.info/

@21. That's probably more likely to happen. As for blogs replacing resumes, well, if I use Scoble's blog as a replacement for his resume, what I learn is that the guy has a hard time focusing on the job for which he was hired. He's always complaining about being behind in email and and needed to catch up on his work. I have no idea, based on his blog, what he has accomplished for the company that pays his salary. What I do know is that he posts alot on his blog and talks more about other bloggers than he does his own company. So, I can only assume if I hire the guy he will spend more time on what he's NOT getting paid for than he would on what I would be paying him for. Again,that purely based on using his blog as a resume.

Dmad: you'd also learn that I put up a new video almost every day, that I have 18,000 subscribers on NewsGator, and that I have lots of business cards from geeks all over the world. :-)

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