Comments on: Naked Conversations, sorry private party.

By: Christopher Coulter

Christopher Coulter — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:39:18 +0000

The family room kick is flawed, a family room is in a private residence, blogs are public by nature. His blog, and free to do as wish, do note however, that it directly contradicts everything in his book.

By: Slappy

Slappy — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:24:06 +0000

Sounds like Scoble’s “Naked Conversations” have become “Naked One Sided Moderated Monologues.” Only yes-men and the amen corner need apply.

By: EWI

EWI — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:08:08 +0000

What has Orlowski situation have to do with weeding out the spammy, abusive comments?

(And the attacks on the hapless ‘Cringely’, too, you may remember)

‘Cause those two episodes are (from my limited paying attention to Scoble) what’s prompted this latest bout of childishness.

I think Robert has the right to so what he wants with his own blog. Thatâ€™s right itâ€™s his blog.

And it’s the privilege of commenters to take issue with what he does with it, and say so. That’s right it’s a free country.

By: MJ

MJ — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:07:38 +0000

Alexia writes: What has Orlowski situation have to do with weeding out the spammy, abusive comments?

Well….if we weeded out spammy, abusive, content-less babble, we’d never have heard of Orlowski.

El Reg used to be very partisan. Now they’re more….tabloid.

By: Alexia

Alexia — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:26:08 +0000

What has Orlowski situation have to do with weeding out the spammy, abusive comments? I think Robert has the right to so what he wants with his own blog. That’s right it’s his blog.

If people feel the need to post these kind of comments at all, let them do it on their own patch.

By: EWI

EWI — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:10:10 +0000

I quite like Cringely, not on a personal level cos I donâ€™t know him, but his manner is amiable, his articles are a fun read without an agenda other than to entertain. I agree entirely. 'Cringely' has always been an fun, gentle read with his predictions. He recently, however, wrote this, which may have considerably ruffled feathers over at Redmond and lie at the root of recent hostility from that quarter. I can understand his distain for Orlowski. Just the other day I stepped in some Orlowski, even after scraping it off, it took ages to convince myself there wasnâ€™t a lingering odour. I can't agree. Most of the business tech press are no better than stenographers for the latest MS products, and The Reg is a lone voice of criticism of this elephant in the room.

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:34:03 +0000

Orlowski is a dick. It’s like reading a tech journalist for the Daily Mirror.

By: MJ

MJ — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:27:30 +0000

Regarding the maggots out there – you can see why Dave W doesn’t entertain much in the way of commentary (and Dave is an old timer who I quite like though he has a singular talent for pissing people off).

Robert – you’re A-list now. Moderating comments NOW is like a celebrity deciding to ban Papparazzi. Okay, you’re not trying to run them over in your oldsmobile or smash the cameras but still. Slashdot has the best moderation system I’ve seen. Or rather, the stupidheads out there don’t get see because you can set a threshold….

I quite like Cringely, not on a personal level cos I don’t know him, but his manner is amiable, his articles are a fun read without an agenda other than to entertain.

I can understand his distain for Orlowski. Just the other day I stepped in some Orlowski, even after scraping it off, it took ages to convince myself there wasn’t a lingering odour.

By: EWI

EWI — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:04:34 +0000

I find it hard to have sympathy for Scoble now tossing his rattler in the playpen. His griefing on the harmless “Cringely” comes on the heels of the extraordinary attacks he made on Andrew Orlowski of The Reg (and one of the best tech journalists out there).

It’s no good his coming crying from rows he has deliberately started himself, and expecting tea and cookies.

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:15:58 +0000

MJ: fair enough. There are plenty of places to get the anti-Microsoft point of view. That isn’t what I’m out to delete anyway. You’ll see plenty of anti-Microsoft stuff get into my comments. I’m more protecting my family room from the kinds of stuff that Bernie is talking about.