Scobleized
Robert Scoble, the famed blogger of Microsoft, is moving on, as he discusses in multiple posts here, in response to his outing by Tom Foremski and others over the weekend.
This has been a blogging and podcasting phenomenon over the past few days that is worthy of mention. One man’s career decision has made news worldwide. Previous to this, people changing firms would only generate news if there was a corporate power struggle like at Morgan Stanley last year or Jack Welch retiring. Now, we have a mid-level individual contributor that has generated more PR juice over a weekend than many high-level execs generate in an entire career.
Robert is heading to Podtech.net, home of John Furrier. It will be interesting to see what a highly visible social media guy will do with and to that startup organization. I’m encouraged that podcasting is continuing to generate this much momentum, both in audio and video formats.
I only know Robert from being a frequent reader of his blog, both on his site and via RSS feeds. While I think this will allow him to feel much more in control of his destiny, his voice may now be so influential that it doesn’t fit in a small startup where one wrong comment could impact a year’s worth of revenue in one moment of time. I believe it will make PodTech or break them - time will only tell. I wish them both the best.