…courtesy of Scoble. Short version: I’ve been to China twice in my lifetime. Now let me spend 1150 words pontificating about how business is done there. Oh, and my commenters are sycophantic dipshits.
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 Here’s another quick bit to remind people that nothing that Scoble says is of any particular worth. If you read any Scooby at all, then you know that he is obsessed with pointless lists. This one though is perfect as an example of the fact that Scoble’s opinion is essentially worthless. In the article Robert states that he has a database of 11,000 tweets that he has favorited since June 2009. Let that number bake into your noggin for a bit. Eleven thousand tweets favorited, not just merely seen by his account. That implies that Robert must have put at least some minimal thought into the content. Now let’s do some math. By my calculations, there were 214 days from beginning of June 2009 until the end of December. If we assume that Scoble monitored Twitter every single one of those 214 days then that gives us 51.4 tweets favorited per day. If we then assume that Robert maintains a twenty-four hour a day vigil, favoriting tweets like some sort of New Media Douchebag machine, then that works out to 2.14 tweets favorited per hour. I keep stressing the “favorited” part of the equation, because it’s important to While I was in the midst of my latest attempt to prove that a man can be powered by ethanol alone, Betanews ran an utterly retarded opinion piece by Joe Wilcox titled: The world doesn’t need an Apple tablet, or any other. There is much that is fundamentally wrong with Joe’s piece, but I don’t want to talk about that. Fortunately I don’t have to talk about Joe’s errors because the tech punditards sallied forth en masse to white–knight a non-existent product (remember, until Apple announces the gods damned thing, it ain’t real). Amongst the herd rushing to defend all things “tablet” was our good friend, and absolute moron Robert Scoble. In a precocious bit of blogorrhea titled: Oh, Joe, the world doesn’t need a Tablet? Really? Robert springs to the defense of the tablet platform. Sadly, he also demonstrates that what Robert Scoble understands about technology could be written in twenty-four point font on the back of a postage stamp; with room to spare. Robert’s attempt to defend the maiden honor or the tablet takes the form of a litany of successful tablet computing devices that have already succeeded in the market. Items he refers to The other day I noticed this bit of fluff from everyone’s favorite ex-camera salesman, Bobby Scoble: Dying career: traffic helicopter pilot. On the surface, there isn’t rally much to say about the piece. It’s the usual tripe where Scooby takes “2″ adds it to “B” and comes up with “yellow.” In this case he takes an Associated Press article about how advancing technologies are replacing the venerable traffic helicopter and lurches off into yet another manic rim-job for the next-big-thing. Now, I could rant about how mind-fuckingly stupid you would have to be to rely solely on crowd-sourced traffic updates, but that isn’t really what I want to focus on here. What I want to do is use this as an example of how gob-smackingly stupid you have to be to pay the slightest attention to the New Media Douchebags, even more-so if you are a company taking business advice from these twats. And why, you ask, is it so bad to heed the advice of the NMD’s. Here’s why my chum. These douchenozzles, who claim to understand “the end users,” have their heads rammed so far up their insular, Silicon Valley asses that you would Continue reading Why Ignoring New Media Douchebags Is the Best Decision You Can Make A while back in one of the Angry Mac Bastards podcasts I postulated that Scoble’s Twitter favorites can’t possibly be of any worth, since he can’t possibly be paying the slightest attention to what he favorites. Consider the numbers that he states in the linked blog post. 7,000 favorites in two months? By the most generous math that comes out to 116 favorites a day. Now go look at the list of favorites on that blog post. At the time I’m writing this, there is only one tweet out of the twenty there that is even arguably not marketing chaff. I seriously doubt that will change. |
 
 
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