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Scoble, your blog still loves you

Monday, August 10, 2009 by Dave Winer.

Just got off the phone with Robert ScoblePermalink to this paragraph

I've known him for a long time. He's not so much a Natural Born Blogger as he is a Natural Born Evangelist.  Permalink to this paragraph

For the last couple of years he's committed himself to the success of FriendFeed. It's really been awful to see how much he promotes it. All the time, as I watch, I'm thinking -- "Those guys are going to screw him." Permalink to this paragraph

Today it happenedPermalink to this paragraph

All the effort he poured into FriendFeed is for naught. They sold to Facebook. In the announcements, no mention of the users, and certainly no mention of Scoble. Now would have been the time for them to tip him, throw him a few thousand. Or if not money, how about at least a hat-tip -- an acknowledgement of the help they received from users, esp Robert Scoble. Nothing. They didn't even give him the first interview. Permalink to this paragraph

A picture named love.jpgScoble it's time to use the web again to store our ideas, and instead of relying on Silicon Valley companies to link our stuff together, let's just use the Internet. That's what it was designed for. Permalink to this paragraph

And I told him I'd write a blog post about him, and that he'd like the title.  Permalink to this paragraph

Our blogs are still there, as is the web and the Internet. They never went away just because we foolishly flirted with something fast and easy and seductive. Our blogs never went away, they're still ready to share our ideas and connect us with others.  Permalink to this paragraph

We'll go back to basics now, take what we learned from this round of innovation, and build it for real this time. Permalink to this paragraph




 
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A picture named dave.jpgDave Winer, 54, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.

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