Apple blogger calls “bullshit” on me « Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger

Apple blogger calls “bullshit” on me « Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger:

Apple blogger calls “bullshit” on me

Chuqui, who is an Apple employee, has a point. Apple employees ARE allowed to blog. They just aren’t allowed to be spokespeople, as Chuqui admits.

Hey, Robert — where’ve you been? I left Apple. Just read the blog, it’s not exactly hard to tell.

C’mon, guy. you can’t even get THAT basic a fact right?

How can you expect people to give you any credibility when you get facts like these so wrong?

(you’d think the words “apple post-mortem” in the title of the message he responded to would give him a clue something was up. This is my OTHER problem with his writing; he is so busy responding to things, he doesn’t bother to check the facts or think through his position. He’s too busy being the expert….

This is exactly the problem I have with the “blogging uber alles” crowd. They talk about conversations — and spend all of their time lecturing. you think Scoble actually spent any time figuring out what was going on? No, he took a sound byte he could play with and started babbling. That’s conversation?

Not in my world. If that’s what it means to be an A-list blogger — be my guest. I’ll stay off in the weeds, actually trying to communicate.

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  • Eshwar

    As much as it seems pretty harsh on Scoble, its 100% true. I don’t understand why people give any attention to people like Scoble. They claim to be great experts and shout from top of the roof top if they find an issue. Great example is the recent HP controversy. The description of HP President as ‘cancer’ (although he apologized later) was frankly disgusting. What sad was she had been earlier affected by cancer. Without knowing anything concrete and just skimming through details and jumping to conclusions is scoble forte.

  • Total

    “Sorry for making a mistake. I corrected it. Glad you don’t make mistakes. I wish I could be perfect like you”
    And he finishes things off with a gracious apology.

  • http://profile.typekey.com/marmoset/ d.w.

    Robert — anyone who actually has spent time reading Chuq’s blog (as opposed to skimming it for convenient quote-y bits) could tell you that he hardly claims perfection.
    The point is that anything other than a cursory read would have clued you in that he was no longer an Apple employee. Here’s a tip — cut those 3000 blogs or whatever you claim to follow in half, or mabye by 7/8ths, and spend some time thinking and digesting instead of madly hammering the post button all day.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com Robert Scoble

    Sorry for making a mistake. I corrected it. Glad you don’t make mistakes. I wish I could be perfect like you.

  • http://paulstamatiou.com Paul Stamatiou

    This reminds me of the time Arrington was reviewing something and claimed it was all AJAX when in reality it was just a Java applet. People need to do a bit of digging and less hurrying to beat the crowd when posting articles.

  • John C. Randolph

    Chuq, I think you know as well as I do that there’s no such thing as an “A-list blogger”. Scoble got a certain amount of attention for a while because he positioned himself as the Voice of Microsoft, but anyone who ever wanted the straight dope on that company read Mini-Microsoft instead.
    It’s like what they used to say about how winning an argument on USENET is like winning in the special Olympics. ;-)
    -jcr