Scoble - The Web’s Buffalo Bill
I’m a subscriber to Robert Scoble’s blog. Once or twice a month he’ll post something that interests me and I do find some value in his work. However, something about his presence at anything and everything related to technology is starting to wear thin on me. Has technology become some random conference in some random city every single weekend? Could I please just once go a week without hearing about a “panel” of experts at the Web 2.0 New Emerging Technologies of Change Conference for Change and World Peace with Demo Pit and Expert Talks Conference by the Technology Association of America in Fargo, ND?
I think it’s great that companies host these conferences and bring in cool people to talk about technology. I just could go without the celebrity because I’m a celebrity routine. It reminds me of Buffalo Bill and the Wild West show. If I plant my image on enough stuff, show up in enough cities and tell people fanciful stories of outrageous adventures - maybe people will start believing I’m actually the person I’m pretending to be. I feel a little of that with Scoble. He’s always planting his face on something or somewhere. Is he just a reporter or does he actually have something valuable to bring to the conversation? I don’t know yet and while I’m trying to figure it out I’m finding myself more and more annoyed with him blogging about some event he was at. It’s like the E channel for technology. Where’s the red carpet?
The amount of conferences and people running around at these conferences has me a little annoyed and I needed to vent about it here. However if a concert promoter out there wants to set up a Paul Graham lecture tour I’ll be the first one in line to buy tickets.
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