Hoax
Sigh, I fell for a late April fools’ trick. I took this hook, line, and sinker because of the past behavior on this site (they’ve always been a fairly straightforward tech site). I’m not happy with myself about not being skeptical enough. It’s one thing to make something up on April 1. It’s a whole nother thing to make something up on April 13.
Congrats to the Technology Evangelist show for taking over for Imus on CBS.
Oh, and the Technology Evangelist’ show looks the best out of all the videocasts we’ve watched this week on Apple TV. Better than regular TV by far. Not as sharp as Discovery Channel (which is a 1080i, professionally done show) but pretty damn good!
I’m watching their April 6th show on my HD screen right now and it shows off how an Apple TV works on a standard TV (picture gets squished).
Nice stuff!
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April 12th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Clearly a stop gap, like the link says. “until a permanent replacement is found”. CBS needs to fill the time with something. But NO WAY this carries an adequate audience for Imus’ time slot, or makes up the $15MM in lost advertising and syndication revenue CBS will realize by their over-reaction in firing Imus. Clearly that went with a knee-jerk reaction given they didn’t have an adequate replacement lined up. A more likely long term replacement could be “Mike and Mad Dog” given that WFAN is a sports-talk station. No way a tech show lasts in that time slot on that station.
April 12th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
LayZ: I agree with you there. It’s just interesting to me that a videoblogger got picked to be a substitute.
April 13th, 2007 at 12:22 am
[...] by recent episodes on Apple TV and an interview with new media expert Jeff Pulver. Thanks to Robert Scoble for catching this story and pushing it up to [...]
April 13th, 2007 at 5:48 am
Just what I needed — another reason to hate April Fool’s Day. Please note the sentence at the end of the blog entry where he mentions that he’s running 11 days behind. . .
April 13th, 2007 at 6:34 am
Robert I think this is a joke–a delayed April 1st spoof. There is no way CBS would shift this audience in this way. Gosh when will spoofs and parodies end. We need to be more discerning. LOL
April 13th, 2007 at 7:03 am
This is a 11 day old april fools joke.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:37 am
You got it, Marie.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Sigh. They got me to bite hook, line, and sinker. Got to be more skeptical. I hate these things too. It’s one thing to do it on April 1. A whole nother thing to do it on April 11.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Obviously this joke was done for extra inbound links by leveraging the hoopla surrounding Imus. That’s pretty shady if you ask me.
Scoble - You should go back and edit your article and change links to his site to all rel=”nofollow” links and ask all others who wrote about this story to do so as well.
His site may already have decent PageRank, but he doesn’t deserve any more from you. One should earn PageRank, not scam others to get it.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:13 am
John, good point. I changed my links to nofollows.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Don’t feel bad. I woke up to this, and wrote the congrats post, only to have to quickly retract it with a “we have all been fooled” post.
I will agree that April 12th is a bit late for an April Fool’s joke. Personally speaking, I think the holiday/event is a stupid one.
Rex
April 13th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Sigh, and bloggers wonder why they aren’t considered credible. Newsflash to Ed-April Fools jokes aren’t that amusing on the net anyways-11 days later doesn’t even qualify, except as trolling at the expense of credibility. Congrats on all the extra hits at Robert’s expense though, I guess.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:37 am
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April 13th, 2007 at 9:48 am
I’m not enjoying some of the pre/post April Fools stuff. Tech news is hard enough to follow when it’s reliable. I can handle the April 1 stuff but this was ridiculous - blogs have enough credibility problems as it is, we don’t need to spend time second guessing every story.
April 13th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Robert, it seemed like you were at least a bit skeptical since you included a question mark in the headline of your post. April the 13th would be WAY too late for something like this, but the 12th with a hint that it’s 11 days late? Sure.
April 13th, 2007 at 10:19 am
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April 13th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Ed: true, I was a bit skeptical. Sounded a bit like too much of a move up in the world. Now, if they called on Leo, THAT I would believe! :-)
April 13th, 2007 at 10:42 am
For a discussion on this topic: I posted audio interviews with Ed Kohler and Scoble on my blog, wavLength.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2007/04/podcaster_pulls_hoax_claims_he.shtml
It may also be the subject of my public radio show, Future Tense, on Monday.
April 13th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Has there ever been a hoax you didn’t fall for, Scoble?
April 13th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Roscoe: yes, there are lots of examples of hoaxes I didn’t fall for. But, what’s your point?
April 13th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
“Sigh. They got me to bite hook, line, and sinker. Got to be more skeptical. I hate these things too. It’s one thing to do it on April 1. A whole nother thing to do it on April 11.”
Robert, every day is April Fools Day! :)
(Seriously, as web readers we need to be skeptical, because some out there are trying to influence us.)
jd
April 13th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
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April 13th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Dear John,
Have bridge steel available. Last used to span lowlands (also avaiable). May be used to reconnect reason to reality.
Also have brother-in-law able to transport same at reasonible rate.
Lemme’kno Bubba