Today’s New Media Douchebag Moment…

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…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.

Scoble’s Twitter Madness

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 remember

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Scoble Explains It All…Incorrectly

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

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Why Ignoring New Media Douchebags Is the Best Decision You Can Make

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 have

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Noise

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.