First two months of ScobleShow

Your show is okay. I love the interviews. I only hate it when I can’t hear you or the other guy speaking. It’d be great if you can put captions if there’s a sound problem.

Robert…don’t do Quicktime OR WMV. Do straight MPEG-4. Plays on everything. Why do two codecs when one is all you need.

John: actually we’re converting everything to MPEG4 first, then to other formats as needed.

Edit, edit edit, you can get to the meat and still keep the flavor while chopping 15 minutes off a 45 min cast.

Fishmeal: we’ve been getting better at editing. The Google one had 15 minutes chopped off of it.

Robert, I absolutely love your interviews. It’s all about the content.

In a perfect world, I would like to see you wear a Mic too. On a couple of your most recent interviews I had a hard time hearing you.

Mike

Mike: yeah, in most of the ones that’ll come out from now on I’ll be wearing a microphone unless I’m filming two people. Then life gets rough.

Can PodTech please label advertisements as such? “ADVERT:” would be nice in the title.

Raj: you mean the Seagate video? Good point.

Regarding advertising: anything marked with the “corporate” tag comes from someone who is paying PodTech. I will get that tag applied to the Seagate video too.

To Scoble Family:
Happy Thanksgiving! May your Scobleshow.wetpaint.com wiki will kill some of the annoying incoming emails so you can spend more time with your family.

Robert, your X’mas Gift:
If you tape a short video on yourself about your profile, I am willing to edit the video for you as a gift. Then you can use the video as part of your bio on wikipeida. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scoble. I can post it on “Back To The Future” bio section. Although this will upset many past and future speakers on the unfair treatment, I can proudly say I am your blog fan. Who can give me smiles among my hectic work schedule?

I will use royalty-free music or even compose music myself so that you can distribute the video without any legal liability. Including royalty-free images or my own artwork.

Ben, your X’mas gift: I gave you a pink ribbon back in Oct. I’ll give you more pink ideas to make your wiki more “sexy”. It would be “hotter” than those Victoria Secret “pink” panties. Think Pink!

Robert,

Film it based on a story board. One idea came from my shower time is a dramatic entrance. Like James Bond movie, you walk out from the side and suddenly turn to the front with your camera or mic. I drop the famous eye shutter with red dye overlaying the video.

Now you are granted by The Queen as Agent “009″, previously work for Channel 9. Then you tell your story.

Yeah I am waiting to see the new Bond.

Getting it to work on ipods would be a big, big improvement

Pity ime not in CA

I did a comunity coledge course to expand on the MM side of my webdevopment skills

Robert,

what I hate most about the ScobleShow is how much it is dominating Sobleizer. This isn’t the blog any more that I loved

I watch a lot of your episodes, and I second the audio problems but you’ll get that right eventually.

If people look at you while answering a question you’re breaking out of your reporter-box. Once you’re not in the scene and directing the camera you ARE the camera and we see the scene through your eyes. If people then speak to you, they could also be speaking with a wall, because we don’t see who they’re talking to. On Nine you always had a cameraman and an interviewer. That seemed much more natural than your interviews from behind the camera. I like the Google Reader interview!

On the other side it seems very natural to just follow your camera while you’re walking around (e.g. Google Kirkland). It’s like the viewer was actually in the room.

Steadycam would be awesome, too (but picture quality rocks anyway)!

Keep on the good work… I love the concept!

Robert

I think the photowalks are great, and I think overall you are doing a sterling job. The annoyances I have:

1) Editing – there is too much stuff – you need to trim down
2) Related to the point above, digestibility. I want bite-size chunks of 10-20 mins max. I can’t devote 45mins to an hour watching a video. So either break it up into smaller pieces, or add chapters so I can skip to the relevant parts. My option is for the smaller pieces. That’s why Ze does so well – short, sweet and to the point.
3) File size. Related to both points above. Too much content means too big a file for downloading. Not all of us have the blazing bandwidth you guys in the US enjoy.

tq

Robert…
… you’re doing just fine, its easy to knock stuff down (ref vallywag vs techcrunch), for two months you’ve proved what your interviews, demo’s and strolls can achieve. Most importantly you’ve opened up the nano world of US tech and start-ups to the world, for those of us working in humanitarian and development in typically third world countries, this gives unique view on new ideas in tech.
. focus on quality and value add.
. the demo’s are great.
. keep ‘em short and sweet
. how about HD, Desk top and I-pod qualities?
. above all… keep it true, sometimes ask awkward questions
oh… and how about more on their business models?

great vids.. keep em coming

Robert,
As a non-insider watching from afar, I love the insight your show brings. Thank you for all of your effort. Maybe a smaller, lighter camera would make life easier for you. Often the moments of bumping into a door or having to pause to set that heavy camera down could be prevented by lighter, more compact equipment with minimal loss in quality. Otherwise keep up the good work.

Mika: I did all my own camera work on Channel 9 too. And the technique I used was exactly the same as I’m using here, except here I have a bigger camera and don’t swing it around so much.

Texas: nah, I bumped into walls with smaller equipment too. I love this bigger camera. Much better image quality and I can control everything which makes it much easier to get usable video. Oh, and it lets me mix two microphones too.

Julio: Waaah? You don’t’ know everything in the whole world?

Robert,
it’s interestting that everything you hate, and almost all of the comments, relate to technical matters. The CONTENT is the most important thing, and the reason i don’t watch many of your episodes any more is that the content is getting stale. You seem to be reporting on variations of the same theme; i.e the newest, latest, greatest, coolest thing, which we don’t hear of again in a couple of months.

My feeling – you need to look for content that is relevant to the real world now, and is likely to remain relevant.
Andrew

Andrew: you saying a tour of Google isn’t relevant? Oh, it’s just the hottest company in the world.

Maybe you’d rather watch Photowalking. We teach you all sorts of stuff that’ll help you make better photos.

Or, if you hate Google, maybe you should check out the interviews with Microsoft that I did. Stale? Name another place you get to see inside Microsoft Research.

And why don’t you use your real name and show us how it’s done? Ahh, anonymous critics. Probably just someone I pissed off in a previous life.

Hi Robert,

that is my real name and you have my real email address. You haven’t pissed me off before. I’m not someone who blogs or interviews. I’m not particuarly interested in photography, video recording, editing, sound recording, or anything like that.

What I’m interested in is technology that’s of use either directly commercially, or in helping me develop solutions for commercial situations – for corporates or government agencies. There is lots of useful technology out there that is of interest to me and is relevant in that context.

Yes, you’ve covered that sort of thing in the past. My criticism is that you aren’t hitting my interest points so much recently, and it’s because you’re targetting, let’s call it “alpha-stage” technology. We were forced to take notice of Microsoft, because it’s Microsoft. I don’t see Google much in the commercial world. I work in Java, web services, AJAX, billing systems, CRM, Accounts Payable, supply chain, logistics, testing tools, profit-and-loss, databases, app servers, BPEL, EAI, BI. That’s what is interesting to me.

Robert, why ask for feedback if you aren’t interested in it? You asked four questions. I provided you with my thoughts for your consideration – because you asked. I took 10 minutes to think about it – because you asked.

You don’t have to agree; you don’t have to do anything different, and I may well be the only one who thinks the way I do. But I do think you need to consider that you have a wide audience, and I guess if you ask for feedback, then you can’t expect universal and unswerving acclamation for everything you do.

Don’t listen to the critics – do what you think is right.

Best regards,
Andrew Harvey (not a pseudonym)

I’m liking the tech videos, getting a look inside the Google offices was interesting.

I’d like to see more sit down and have a chat interviews though as I find people talk more and open up a bit more when they are sitting down and comfortable.

I like the fact that some of the videos are long and in depth but I would like an option of an edited down version too – a ‘best bits’ would be good. For subscribers it might be good to have a feed of best bits so they don’t use up all their bandwidth downloading everything.

Keep up the good work.