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Very credible person and influential!

  • The comment above adds to the article's content "in a more honest, humane light" and "reasonable" to suggest vanity or at least need for NPOV cleanup. I added a NPOV tag in case the article survives VfD, as appears likely. Barno 15:25, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You've got to be kidding.. Scoble, credible? The guy's a professional Microsoft shill. (Like, really: that's his JOB.) This article never should have been here in the first place.
  • A Microsoft shill? Uh, he maintained a link to FF until recently... he openly admits he wants an iPod (if he doesn't have one already). He openly criticizes Microsoft often enough... what do you want? You need to grow up!
  • Robert Scoble is well read enough to maintain at least a brief article. Also, the article should probably mention that he is an evangelist for the TabletPC line of equipment, and http://Channel9.msdn.com in general.
  • Scoble's evangelism of TabletPC predates his Microsoft employment - he worked at NEC prior to Microsoft, and I believe his Tablet usage started there. I don't believe his current job involves Tablet evangelism directly. ianbetteridge
  • You may want to mention that he started out as a Microsoft MVP, which is where I first met him. I remember when he went employee, and I vaguely recall that it was in part from the contacts he got as an MVP.
  • Scoble is a widely recognised phenomenon. He is influential for reasons associated with his position and with the attitude which he maintains in his writing. His influence upon the blogosphere is significant because he evangelises blogging from an uniquely visible position. For those that want to see if it is possible to transform organisations which they despise into ones that they respect (turning Microsoft into Apple?) Scoble may (if only in this admittedly very limited sense) be the world's most important blogger, even if his motives or quality of writing are deemed by those who hold this view to be otherwise entirely unremarkable.
      • That's my opinion but VfD showed a lot of comments otherwise. The anonymous talk-page comment above furthered my opinion but I doubt most voters have read it. An NPOV tag seemed fairer to our collaborative process than, say, a speedy delete for "contrafactual bullshit". Barno 14:36, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

i think he is credible guy.

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[edit] why do we care

Scobble is interesting but very much a self promotor w/ an annoying laugh...like a HAM radio operator.

[edit] Vfd

On April 8, 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Robert Scoble for a record of the discussion. —Korath (Talk) 03:12, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stub?

Why does this thing have a MS Windows stub? He isn't a part of MS Windows, but rather, a MS Employee. DoomBringer 06:10, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CBO?

Can anyone cite a source for his promotion to CBO? I can't find a durn thing, and it sounds too outlandish to be true. DoomBringer 06:17, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

He isn't CBO, and so I've deleted it - he notes in an interview at at ActiveWin that the Wikipedia entry is wrong on this. ianbetteridge, 10:36 25 October 2005

[edit] How long at Microsoft?

How long has he been working at Microsoft for? Since when? I read somewhere that he has been working with Bill Gates in 1994 - is that true? Can someone please verify this? --Gary King 01:58, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

2.5 years, as of one of his latest posts

[edit] Irrelevant External Links moved to Talk Page

I moved these here from the external links section. I think that these blogs are irrelevant to the article. If these people had their own articles in wikipedia (i.e. if they were notable) then it owuld be okay to link to their blogs -- having these in Robert Scoble's article because they are immediate family is just wrong. --Ben Houston 20:18, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

  • spaces.msn.com/members/maryamie His wife Maryam's blog
  • miniscobleizer.blogspot.com His son Patrick's blog
  • itmanager.blogs.com His brother Alex's personal blog
  • www.computerworld.com/blogs/scoble His brother Alex's Computerworld blog
  • scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/12/19/my-wikipedia-policy His Wikipedia-editing policy

[edit] Why is this important?

I wonder how that such thing as a MS employee has an article in the Wikipedia, so, should I do mine? I think this page is irrelevant for the whole project... —This unsigned comment was added by 83.32.175.45 (talk • contribs) .

Scoble is also a published author and, more generally, one of the Internet's most well-known technical evangelists, especially around corporate blogging. The fact that he collects pay from Microsoft is not relevant to his notability; the fact that his name garners more than five million hits on Google certainly does. Warrens 19:29, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikinews interview in the works

See n:Wikinews:Water_cooler/proposals#w:en:Robert_Scoble_interview.2C_anyone.3F -- Zanimum 14:47, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation?

Is it Sc-Ahh-ble or Sc-Ohh-ble?

Rhymes with "noble". --Michael Geary 22:46, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Slight cleanup

I'm making some changes to wording/syntax to make this read more "encyclopedic", if you will. No content changes though. Canjecricketer 12:45, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removing Salary Info

I'm removing the details about Scoble's salary change upon joining Podtech.net for a couple of reasons: first, none of the sources cited provide this figure; second, it is too ambiguous to be meaningful "from under $100,000 to over $100,00" (that could mean he went from 99k to 101k- we have no idea); and three, I'm really not sure how relevant this is. I think it is enough to say that his salary increased, and I have changed it accordingly. Canjecricketer 13:34, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Authorship?

This reads as if he wrote it himself or one of his "fans". Is there an entry on every influential blogger? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.193.245.18 (talk) 23:59, 1 June 2008 (UTC)