Where has Scoble gone?

Do we still get blog posts here or are you transferring your time and energy to FriendFeed and Twitter for good?

I’ll be back, but FriendFeed definitely shows that I’m spending time on a lot of things, not just Twitter.

Your old friends miss the more substantial posts. Your twitter stuff is pretty content free. Something reflective and thoughtful instead of shallow and reactive is what a blog is good for. It’s a bit sad to see that dying in favor the effortless.

old dog: I’ll be back. I’m just so busy with family, traveling, interviewing, and running FastCompany.tv that doing longer posts gets shoved off. But I have some bigger posts brewing in my head.

In the meantime I’ve been watching what’s going on at TechMeme and am glad I’ve been quiet lately here.

Robert, we’re glad you took the FriendFeed plunge, and you took us up on the invitation. I think you will find your voice there, and here. We appreciate your long-form posts (as you noted Saturday) and hope they don’t disappear as well. But thanks for being part of the Web’s fastest-growing community!

@Dan and @old dog – The value of FriendFeed is that it’s not an on or off situation, you’ll see all Scoble’s posts be they quick and fleeting or deep and thoughtful it’s all right there to see.

It’s more realistic really; these composed pieces don’t pop out of nowhere they are a compendium of smaller conversations and research that come together.

Scoble is a genuis. This may be part of a plot to suck even more people into Friendfeed, further accelerating his leading network.
In all seriousness, Robert is extremely flexible and able to well integrate the new into the older. That, even more than being a voracious early adopeter, is, I believe, a key component of his great success.
PS I found this via Friendfeed. Even though it’s one of the first reads on my feedreader, still saved plenty of time.

do you think?

http://blog.coda2go.com/managers/?p=9

I canceled my FriendFeed account. From what I could tell, it’s just an aggregator for folks who don’t already use aggregators. Since I (and pretty much all of my friends/associates) already use aggregators, it doesn’t provide value. And it doesn’t force them to see parts of me they don’t want. If they want my photos, they subscribe to my Flickr feed. If they only want blog posts, they subscribe to that. Not everyone wants to know every single little thing that someone has done online.

Nothing personal, but Mr. Scoble isn’t a friend in the sense that I want to follow is every physical or virtual movement. Wading through Friendfeed is just exhausting. I’m happy to sit raptly close by, waiting for a well considered nugget. But this happens less frequently now because people are spreading their attention so thin. Take a deep breath some time. Panting leaves one breathless.

I’m reading Tim Ferriss 4 Hour workweek, what would he say about your twitter/friendfeed always connected habit?

I love the concept of Friendfeed as a social aggregator and I use it every day. Unfortunately, it doesn’t pick up my social activities very well from other sites and consequently paints a very partial picture of what I do online, despite what I’m actually trying to publicize and syndicate.

This isn’t unusual for these types of applications given the scale of integration required. Facebook apps often have the same problem if they’re pulling activity in from elsewhere.

This kind of VLSI (very large scale integration) of highly granular social apps is going to pose whole new traffic, reliability, and response time issues for Web application creators as Web sites have to use open APIs effectively on a vast scale in near real-time. It’s going to create a whole new discipline to make these types of apps work.

This seems to be a trend. It’s good to separate the grain from the chaff.

I like the fact you make efforts to inform with excellent content ! I am going to officially change MY NAME TO” DIGITAL MOVE’S! ” It makes me a Super Collector of Data ! I am jealous because you have a real brand ! I have to reinvent myself and hope some one Scrapes my Data ! Onward Upward Scobie ! Calacanis will never catch you ! You are the original !

Social network researchers should take you as an example for their experiments…A report says that generally, a person can have 150 – 160 (average) people maximum in their SN at a given point. If the number goes beyond this, the quality of the relationship decreases. I hope that you are an exceptional and very highest degree node (I think it depends on an individual’s knowledge, profession, and experience). secondly, With help of better tools, one can break those numbers easily. for ex, the tools can have better personalization (to filter/search/sort/translate languages etc).

Robert, can you give us a quick post about what you believe to be the reasons we should invest our time into Friend Feed?

I’ll check through the archives, might have missed it if you’ve already done one.

Cheers

A search for “friendfeed” on this place revealed everything .

FriendFeed is SurfControl blocked for me (twitter isn’t). Guess I’ll just read via Google Reader.

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Good. That will remove some of the useless crap from my feeds. I wish more people will follow your example.

Seems like a good way to lose readers. It’s too much info.

What I’m still trying to figure out is what the big difference between Friendfeed and Plaxo Pulse is. I joined Plaxo after reading many of Scoble’s Posts about it, and the pulse is cool, but what’s the difference?

Hey, less content, more blather. 24/7/365. In a way, it is a great relief.

These all or nothing bandwagoning rampages you go on are not only deja-vu, but indeed all over again. I am sure this will continue until whatever catrastrophic reason you find or new service that will then take over everything else. So it goes, from blogging, to Facebook insanity, to insert whatever fad, to twitter to friendfeed… etc. Only to find out blabla limits “sucks” or this or that. Hey watch my grainy live phone videos while I am walking around point x on this great new service that I will use for a few weeks until a different one is SOOOO much better than the last one. Sigh.

All the while meaningful content is lost and is simply replaced with the this is the greatest thing proclamation where the herd is to follow you.

It would be interesting to see what this does to your actual reading stats, not to mention the numbers of people that tire of all of this and drop. However, the actual reading stats, that is what people actually end up reading versus simply seeing it for a second and then say, sigh, another over exhuberient shill for some service that will last only until the next one.

Yes, I know I can stop subscribing, but I can also skip over what seems to have become the 85+ rate of these things. Whereas you used to have content with structured value, it seems to be no longer here. It is almost as if you are wearing your leather jacket and shorts while being pulled by a boat and yes, you have jumped the blogging shark.

The majority of these things are just white noise and I find that sad and not the least bit compelling.

comment 23) You will not likely find it here – because whatever is the new one will be overtaken by something new and you are to herd to the next.

Honestly, how anyone decides to take most of their online identity and continuously fractures it, dumps it, restarts it all the while handing it all over to 3rd parties is beyond me… in the continuous fashion crosses the border of absurd.