Would Scoble be interesting if he did not work for Microsoft?
Posted on October 31st, 2005 in General | 1 Comment »
I think Scoble would still be a very interesting read but I doubt he’d have the following that he does now. If he worked for General Electric, Sun, Disney, or even Apple would he be the alpha blogger he is today? I think that much of the reason he has become so popular is because he says things about Microsoft that everyone else has either known or suspected for some time. He’s able to peel away the Marketing BS long enough for us to see that Microsoft is more than Bill and Steve. And it’s fun to see him admit when groups within Microsoft just don’t get it.
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[...] Oh, while we’re thinking of this, Nordquist asks whether I’d be interesting if I didn’t work at Microsoft. I used to say “of course I would be.” And there’s some truth to that. I had thousands of readers before I joined Microsoft. But, it’s clear that being at Microsoft gives me access to things that I simply wouldn’t have access to before. I can go hang out with Coleridge while he builds new stuff and I get to go to sexy Web 2.0 conferences around the world like the LIFT conference in Switzerland where I’m speaking in February. So, I certainly wouldn’t be AS interesting. There is no company in the world that is doing as much geek work as Microsoft is. [...]