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Excellent article by Quentin Hardy about !Gplus "Google+ And The Master Plan" http://ur1.ca/4mnac
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@stav Was with him until he called Scoble an "uber-influencer". Who does Scoble influence? Ask 20 people _IRL_ & 19 won't know his name.
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@stav The one outlier will have seen his photograph & think he's Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
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@joshix but he's an "A-list" blogger!
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@stav Anyway, Scoble is the opposite of an influencer. He's a gigantic pilot fish.
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@joshix Agreed. But some technorati can't help themselves and follow his bloggings. I like Quentin Hardy, though.
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@stav Is Hardy kinda lead tech guy @ forbes? B/c their tech reporting is generally pretty intelligent.
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@stav (The reasons for that pretty obvious: Forbes is about $, & they don't buy the change-the-world BS but report from $ angle.)
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@joshix Is this the same Forbes whose mobile app I recently dumped b/c their tech reporting seemed so clueless?
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@lnxwalt300 I dunno. I'm going to out myself on a bit of polite conversation here and admit that I read almost no tech news...
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@joshix Absolutely, tech is big on Wall Street. It can swing the market!
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@lnxwalt300 ...because I consider _almost_ all tech journalists the worst, frothiest, marketeering-est journalists in the world.
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@stav 'bout the only thing market's got left anymore, eh? Btw, did you see recent Economist debate '"resolved: we're in a tech bubble"?
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@stav Tend to agree. Cycling overlapping bubbles was the Clinton genius.
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@stav However, that Clinton way also included money for people other than just investment bankers.
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More personal and market income meant more revenues for Clinton to dole out. Again, !Obama needs to emulate Slick Willy. Talk positive!
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@stav Obama can't make people feel anything. Makes me feel like I'm in the back of a lecture hall in a 400-seat poli sci class. Zzzz.
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@joshix It's the teleprompters. They block the passion! hahaha
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@stav But Clinton... man. I met Clinton at Santa Cali Gon Days, Independence, MO. August 1992. ELECTRIC.
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@joshix Actually, I agree. Tech journalists are unabashed fanboys, if they know anything at all.
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@stav (and I was a 'tween and he wasn't even President yet)
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@lnxwalt300 Like @zach & I were talking about some time back, very little tech news is written by the journos or outlets. It's advertorial.
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@lnxwalt300 I know because I've written an embarrassing amount of it, bought & paid by the company doing the selling.
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