Dumping Scoble

Robert Scoble. At first I liked the guy, and now I can’t stand him. Everything he says shows that he’s an utter fanboy — a paid one at that. It used to be kind of cool…he was much less obvious about it. I seem to remember him embracing other technologies and such, albeit with a Microsoft slant, and that was cool.

Chris Pirillo loves MS too, but he doesn’t just sit there and spout pro-MS propoganda all day. Scoble does. That’s the thing, I don’t mind the pro-MS view, I just don’t want the arrogance and the evangelism. The guy makes me sick. Interestingly enough, there’s an entire thread based on tons of people having the same exact reaction to him.

The final straw I just pulled from his site a second ago:

For the rest of you Dave has been noticing that Microsoft (and others, to tell the truth) have been trying to get rid of RSS and change the name for RSS subscription feeds to something like “Web Feed.” By the way, Dave, look at the branding you’re using on your own blog. You’re using an Orange XML icon to link to your RSS feed. Isn’t that confusing for new people? If someone told me “subscribe to Dave’s RSS feed” I’d be totally confused. Where is the RSS? Why can’t we get consistent branding? It’s that inconsistency that’s giving the “Web feed” people power.

He’s not being humorous here; he’s trying to embarass the guy, and all he’s doing is coming off like an ass. I’m done with him. He’s worthless as anything other than someone to make fun of.

EDIT: I’m reading about Robert’s response to criticism about him and I’m being reminded of why I liked him in the first place. I should not have been so harsh. Reading my post above, it’s rather assholish in its own right. The message I stick to, but the delivery was horrible. For that I apologize, Robert.