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June 12, 2006
Robert Scoble has announced he's leaving Microsoft. On the heels of the promotion of blogger Jonathan Schwartz to the position of CEO of Sun, the Blogosphere has lost its only two examples of corporations productively allowing non-CEO employees to blog. Pundit Doc Searls commented, "Now we're down to three CEO bloggers and like a gazillion teenagers writing how much they hate their English teacher." In a note pinned to its site, the Blogosphere said it was going to "shut up about itself" for a while until it had time to come up with some new examples. [Tags: scoble humor blogging blogosphere] PS: The Boston Globe illustrated its AP story about Scoble with a photo of Shel Israel, Robert's co-author. You can see just a bit of Robert's ear and eye where he's been carefully cropped out of the photo. PPS: Best of luck, Robert. Posted
by D. Weinberger at June 12, 2006 10:24 AM
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There was a discussion on slashdot that was kicking around the idea that because these guys weren't whistleblowing and dishing inside dirt on their corporate masters that they weren't legit or useful. I definitely don't agree with that. I expect corporate bloggers to, you know, represent the company's side of things. But as long as an actual dialog is happening with people of other viewpoints, that's fine.
Posted by: scott | June 12, 2006 10:56 AM
Not that I am a Microsoft guy in the least, but even Scoble mentioned on his departure there are still 3000 bloggers in Microsoft.
Sure Microsoft lost their 'A-Lister' but with the long tail as is often discussed, why should it be a big deal.
The complaints around the web sound more like Dworak type comments than serious thoughtful response. :-)
Posted by: Thomas | June 12, 2006 12:33 PM
Thomas, I was making a joke. Hahaha. The point was the frequency with which Scoble was used as an example of employee blogging.
Posted by: David Weinberger | June 12, 2006 02:54 PM
At first I didn't get and then I saw the humor tags :-)
Posted by: Thomas | June 12, 2006 03:14 PM
Well, we can pretty well assume that if people can't tell it's a joke unless it's tagged "humor," then it probably wasn't funny.
Posted by: David Weinberger | June 12, 2006 06:22 PM