Robert Scoble:QOTD > On Drive-By Blog Commentors

NOTE: I promised an end to the "craziness" in post three of a four post series yesterday.  Later today that post will arrive.  In other words, this is not post three of four, and is completely unrelated.

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Shillbuster: have fun. I always love threats of unsubscription from people who won’t even sign their own names.

Comment by Robert Scoble — January 29, 2007 @ 2:20 pm

I know Robert.  Not all that well, mind you: I first met him at the pre-XML Sells-Con (as in Chris Sells, as opposed to a "Sales Conference") Geek Dinner in, Portland 2004, though it was only a brief "Hi, nice to meet you."  However, just after leaving Microsoft last year to join PodTech, he came passing through Salt Lake City, pulled together an impromptu "Meeting of the (local) Geeks" that, quite literally, was scheduled to take place at a Downtown SLC location that was  less than a block from the back door of my apartment. 24 hours later: I had enough recorded content to pull together three separate podcasts, with enough content to spare for a fourth (though the sound quality wasn't good enough to publish (or even take the time to edit) the last one.)

While it would take the reading and connecting-of-dots between two separate, seemingly non-related posts to understand who it was I was referring to in the first, I've had my own issues with some of Scoble's "tirades".  But for me to be turned-off of someone after criticizing them for a tirade, would be like the Pope criticizing someone for being Catholic.  It just wouldn't sit all that well in regards to being able to look at myself in the mirror each morning and feel like anything other than the worlds biggest hypocrite.  And I have to admit that after reading the above quoted follow-up comment from Robert, I couldn't help but find myself laughing hysterically, while nodding my head up-and-down with absolute, and total agreement

If I were the betting-type (which I'm not), and decided to wager everything I had on the "event" of the 21st Century that I believe will be seen in our future history books as nothing less the single most important event of the entire century, it will be the day that blogging went mainstream.  That said, a meme I will be extending from quite extensively in part three of my current four part series, with good comes bad, and with bad comes (better||worse), dependent, of-course, on ones own perspective**.

I always love threats of unsubscription from people who won’t even sign their own names.

Of course, anonymity and identity on the web are in no way mutually exclusive from one another; Both are important: Both have their time; Both have their place. But as the saying goes,

"On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog."

New Yorker Magazine: July 5th, 2003 Cartoon by Peter Steiner

It seems to me that in the world of blog commenting, there certainly seems to be a lot more dogs than of any other species known to man.  That said, please see [** Perspective], and then smile, knowing that life is a rich and wonderful experience, none two which are ever the same (and for *good* reason!  More on that in the part three follow-up to yesterdays "Two" series.)

Until then, enjoy your collective dog dev-days! ;)

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** Perspective: Yin/Yang; Black/White; Up/Down; Night/Day; and so forth -- You can not have one without the other, and while it may not be immediately obvious, through the Law of Relativity, everybody and everything will have its own perspective as to which one, when, is preferable to the other.)