Just wanted to post my extremely cryptic notes from Scoble‘s keynote at the Northern Voice blogging conference. I’ll put my comments about this session and the others I’m attending later.
Scoble’s Keynote
- (Using OneNote on his tablet with handwritten speaking points)
- RSS makes connections
- RSS, RSS, RSS…
- PubSub, Technorati, Feedster can be used to stay current on a phrase or idea (trends)
- Currently uses NewsGator; if he was starting today, he’d use OnFolio or FeedDemon
- Pause while Scoble tries to demonstrate subscribing to a feed awkwardly
- 1st reference to IE7
- Publish full feeds; Scoble will not read partial text feeds
- Dave Winer called during Scoble’s speech. “I don’t really wanna talk to him”
- Scoble “just reads” – this is the most disappointing part of Robert’s talk. Other than the efficiencies that RSS brings, I think you really just have to spend the time reading or scanning posts; there’s no silver bullet to allow you to consume more information. He just wants to more than most people. Fran points out that this speech is only disappointing to me because I’m already familiar with the efficiencies of RSS. For people new to blogging and RSS, this is a revelation.
- Scoble watches his feeds for trends. He knew that iPod was going to be big. He knows the Incredibles DVD release will be huge. He knew how big Halo 2 would be. But what is the value of that? In small, direct, non-business human terms? (Business value is self-explanatory)
- ‘Microsoft can’t control me to the extent that I’ll shut up’ – the thing to remember is that Scoble is not the norm
- Kryptonite anecdote
- Scoble talking about how to handle information overwhelm, apologising for not being able to keep up with email, due to overwhelm.