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Sunday Reading

January 27th, 2007 by Osman S Borutecene

Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs Robert Scoble tells the truth one more time.

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Meditations On Meaning Is Fun

January 26th, 2007 by Osman S Borutecene

I am sure this guy will not jump the shark any time soon. Now this is what I call original, interesting content: How to Walk Through Steel-Reinforced Walls and Achieve Other Similarly Impossible Feats

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Dell Goes Sans Windows!

January 24th, 2007 by Osman S Borutecene

Dell’s new open-source n Series desktop solution provides customers with a DimensionTM E520, E521 or C521 desktop without an installed or included Microsoft® operating system.

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It’s Robert Scoble’s Birthday

January 18th, 2007 by Osman S Borutecene

Robert Scoble is 42 today and Loren Feldman is the first to celebrate his birthday. Here is my birthday present to Robert, it’s a new word: Scoblenvy.

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Even The Shortest Essay Is Not A Blog Post

January 15th, 2007 by Osman S Borutecene

I have been thinking on a project that involves some minor information design. I suddenly caught up by the idea of what is a post and what is an article. This reminded me of a blog post of Dave Shea.

I think a blog is news source regardless of what is it about. It may inform you about that the blogger saw this movie and has slept with that person, etc. It’s a news source that can tell you that the blogger person has written a new article, but its not the article itself.

Therefore, Wordpress has the static pages feature. So that the user will be able to both blogs about this and that and then also writes articles, or essays in whatever kind of nature.

Just a couple of cents in a break.

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Comment In Moderation: Alyson Strother’s Blog

January 10th, 2007 by Osman S Borutecene

Alyson Strother has a blog on wordpress.com about design, music and everything Apple related. Her recent posts reveal accurate information on iPhone too.

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iPhone Bubble

January 10th, 2007 by Osman S Borutecene

Paul Kedrosky and Robert Scoble ~~speculate~~ are pointing out some facts about Apple’s cellular phone, iPhone. I think that it’s too early to talk about both good pros and contras of this product. If it has been Windows Vista that people ~~speculate~~ point out some facts about, I am sure that Robert Scoble would say “The product is going to be released in June and it’s early to talk about this”.

Apart from this, I have been thinking whether Apple is listening or not. It sounds a good idea to announce the product six months before its release and then listening to valuable would be customer feedback and correct what may seem wrong to them.

update: Niall Kennedy has a good post that covers Apple’s today and a bit of factual info on iPhone.

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Internet Explorer 7

January 8th, 2007 by Osman S Borutecene

You should check this out.

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Robert Scoble Is One Clever Guy

January 6th, 2007 by Osman S Borutecene

Nowadays, I see posts about Robert Scoble and his blog and his job and his nearly everything here and there. These posts mostly talk about Scoble’s views on certain products that he writes up in his blog. Others are simply hate propaganda against Robert Scoble.

I don’t specially like or dislike Robert. I just think that he is a clever, special guy who likes to initiate discussions in a provocative fashion. His provocativeness is a must as a journalist. And yes, he is a journalist. He does interviews. He does it well, I think.

His provocative posts are generally about comparing two or more products or services. For instance, once he questioned whether Apple imitates Microsoft. There have been 230 comments under this post so far and he made people to come out and talk. Okay, I know that topics like Microsoft vs Anything can be quite intriguing at times but he has the ability to achieve more buzz than an ordinary Microsoft vs. Oranges and Apples kind of comparisons.

Another nice post to play with from Scoble was about why United States will remain dominant in tech. He claimed that United States will remain dominant in tech because Iran and some other countries mistreat their citizens. Robert Scoble knows very well that there are lots of countries on earth that are coming really close in competition on tech. I don’t think that his claim was sincere. I think he just knows how to make a buzz.

For a last example, I will mention his post about how Microsoft is gonna edge in on Google. I am sure that Robert is joking here completely.

Now, more important than all this is how and why people react to Robert Scoble. I feel disturbed by the hate propaganda that some bloggers carry out against him. I just don’t understand why they keep reading him if he discomforts them by his posts.

There must be something else, some other reason that some people hate Scoble and keep reading his posts. This isn’t just a love-to-hate situation.

My opinion is that those people don’t have the guts and the mindset to post like him. I think that is jealousy. Most people that blurbs about Robert Scoble blurb about him just because they think he gains and earns by something they cannot achieve. Those people cannot make something on their own, they feel needy most probably. Or at least, they cannot see the buzz he creates and they forgot that Robert Scoble is a journalist. One of his provocative posts was about comparing Windows Vista and Mac OS X. He needs this to do his job. He needs to and must podcast about odd things sometimes. That happens all the time, all day long with a whole press and media.

Anyway, my suggestion to those suffering from the Scoblenvy: Go try and create your own buzz and content. You are free to add any interesting content to your blogs. Do it and try to make it better than Scoble, then come and blurb about why Scoble makes no sense.

By the way, among the ~~negative comments~~ blurbs about Scoble, the oscar has to go to Yuvi who is a 15 year old Geek wannabe from Chennai, India. He is a VB and C# guy, but is trying to expand his horizons. He is the best representative of people who like to blurb about Robert Scoble.

update: Another post from Robert Scoble that drive people crazy. Now it is iPhone. Well, another reason why I think that Robert Scoble has a playful cleverness. There are many people out there, important names who blog about the iPhone recently. They write down very decent things, evaluating iPhone and the future of Apple, swot of opponents etc. but none of them get the attention that Scoble is getting right now. This isn’t Scoble’s way, that’s just what we call “social psychology” among academic jargon.

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