OK, I know Michael Earls got a link from Scoble a while back for saying he’s unsubscribing from Scoble’s blog. I want to assure you, this is not my intent here. I don’t care if Scoble links to me or not, and you’ll soon find out why.
So why am I tired of reading the mighty Scoble’s blog? Well, here’s a couple reasons…
As Earls points out, Scoble publishes a LOT. Don’t get me wrong, I love popular and highly active blogs. It gives me something to read all day while I’m at work (I mean, what else am I gonna do?). The problem comes when we work into our second point…
Where’s the original content in all these entries? 90% of the time (if not more), every entry Scoble publishes is essentially a link to someone else’s blog or a new story he found of interest (generally through someone else’s blog too). Occasionally he says he’s going to do something on Channel 9 about it, or that he already has, but that’s about it. I’m sorry, but he’s one of the most popular independent bloggers around. Add on top of that the fact that he works at the largest company in the world, and I come to expect more original content from the man.
Give us the nitty gritty of life at Microsoft. Give us some inside info. Give us some meat and potatoes with all this fluff!
The last real original content I read on Scoble’s blog was relating to Steve Ballmer’s memo, and that was last week! Now look at all the crap I have to sift through to get to that small piece of original content. Honestly, it’s not really worth it anymore to deal with 20-30 new entries a day if I actually read one of them every other day.
And that’s really my point. I have no intention of unsubscribing from Scoble’s feed (yet). I want to implore him to make a change: Start posting fewer entries with more real Scoble in them, rather than simply rehashing info from other blogs / sites. That’s what I want to read, and I imagine many other readers would appreciate it as well. I can go subscribe to everyone in your massive blogroll myself and read what they’ve posted. I subscribe to YOUR feed for YOUR content, not theirs.
Come on Scoble, I know you’ve got more to say! Let’s hear it!
Scoble used to be a lot more interesting… I’ve found him pretty boring recently.