I've been following his blog for 6 months or a year, but I'm finding myself skipping over more and more of his posts, and am considering taking it out of my reader. Your question spurred me to look at what made me subscribe in the first page and what's changed.
I remember watching and really enjoying this interview with Cloudera CEO Mike Olson: http://scobleizer.com/2010/03/05/do-we-need-a-new-tech-liter... I found Olson to be smart and interesting, and Scoble asked good questions. I was excited to learn more about what people were doing with big data and industrial NoSQL, and that interview was a great primer.
That's around when I subscribed to him. If you go back to March/April/May of last year (http://scobleizer.com/404) he was writing lots of great, smart, important essays.
Lately, I feel like it's more like startup diarrhea. A flood of interviews and links and startups and random crap that he's testing out. I guess that's what you have to do when you're focused on "breaking" news. But at some point I just don't have the patience to wade through all of it for the good stuff.
Ironic reason for unfollowing an expert in curation!
I remember a few months ago when Scoble was singing the praises of pip.io from the rooftops. You had to go sign up for pip.io, it was gonna be huge and it was so awesome to have all your social media content in one place.
So, yeah. I hear you. I'd rather not diss the guy, because he has added a lot of value just by covering the startup space and conducting a lot of great interviews. I just wish he would spend more time doing quality blogging.
I give a lot of credit to Scoble, though. He's unique among the meta-geek crowd in that he'll respond to anybody as long as you have something intelligent to say without regard for whether you're in the "inner circle" of SV. Not many people at his level do that; in fact the only other person I can put in that category is Steve Jobs.
I remember watching and really enjoying this interview with Cloudera CEO Mike Olson: http://scobleizer.com/2010/03/05/do-we-need-a-new-tech-liter... I found Olson to be smart and interesting, and Scoble asked good questions. I was excited to learn more about what people were doing with big data and industrial NoSQL, and that interview was a great primer.
I also remember reading an essay of his on curation (http://scobleizer.com/2010/03/27/the-seven-needs-of-real-tim...) that I thought was really insightful... after all, curation is something he's an expert on.
That's around when I subscribed to him. If you go back to March/April/May of last year (http://scobleizer.com/404) he was writing lots of great, smart, important essays.
Lately, I feel like it's more like startup diarrhea. A flood of interviews and links and startups and random crap that he's testing out. I guess that's what you have to do when you're focused on "breaking" news. But at some point I just don't have the patience to wade through all of it for the good stuff.
Ironic reason for unfollowing an expert in curation!