• too insidery

    Robert Scoble now reports to my ex-boss

    This will be hilarious: Self-obsessed videoblogger Robert Scoble, managing director of FastCompany.tv, has a new boss — who's the same as my old one. Noah Robischon is leaving his job as managing editor of Valleywag's publisher, Gawker Media, to run Fast Company's websites, which include Scoble's personal blog, Scobleizer.com. More »

    11:20 AM on Wed Nov 12 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    961 views, 4 comments

    Latest by ArildaLlama: No, Scoble will never make sense. He will however make everyone else at the organization miserable. Want to break more »

  • halloween

    No costume? No problem

    Some readers have told us our Halloween masks were a little too frightening. If you're still scrambling to pull together a costume, here are four options that are more treat than trick. Best of all, you'll be able to get what you need from your own closet. More »

    3:00 PM on Fri Oct 31 2008
    By Adriana Nunez
    1,147 views, 1 comment

    Latest by sample032: There should have been a Paul Boutin one. Black clothes, boots, cowboy had, and, most importantly, sunglasses. Be more »

  • meltdowns

    Valley blowhards gush forth advice

    Professional annoyance Kara Swisher, the BoomTown blogger, went to a how-to-survive-the-downturn gabfest, and all she got was this lousy video. Captured on her Flip camera: Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who didn't predict the downturn; Nirav Tolia, the Epinions cofounder — an entrepreneur — who hasn't laid anyone off since the last bubble burst and is surely rusty; Google investor Ram Shriram, who has way too much money to care about such mundane affairs as a recession; and Fast Company videoblogger Robert Scoble, who is cheerfully clueless as ever. The bright side: If Scoble is saying companies need to conserve cash, perhaps we've hit a market bottom.

    10:00 AM on Fri Oct 31 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    312 views, 7 comments

    Most discussed FiveStarEggRoll: First Ashton Kutcher and now that "Fez" guy. Sheesh, up next will be Topher with something techy. Harry "wishes he played more »

  • bad advice

    John Doerr to startup CEOs: Be more like Scoble

    Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr is the guy everyone vaguely remembers as being important a decade ago but can't recall anything he's funded recently besides Friendster. Even so, he's full of advice for entrepreneurs — so full of advice that his 10 tips for startups spilled over to 11. The 11th tip: "Overcommunicate with everyone -– employees, investors, partners and particularly customers. Don’t sugar coat things, communicate your resolve." Where have we heard that before? More »

    12:40 PM on Thu Oct 30 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    806 views, 4 comments

    Most discussed macbeach: Pathetic. Anyone just getting out of school should be THRILLED that the housing bubble has ended. I think the REAL more »

  • layoffs

    Fast Company publisher to lay off 20

    Times are tough all over. That's the excuse bosses are now using for cleaning house, making hard decisions they were too timid to execute in bubblier times. We've just heard that Mansueto Ventures, the publisher of Fast Company and Inc. magazines, is laying off 20 people. Inside the company, it's being spun as an "economic move" — but if it's a financially motivated maneuver, why is Fast Company magazine being left untouched in the layoffs? More »

    1:20 PM on Fri Oct 10 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    4,209 views, 6 comments

    Most discussed Pragmatic: please make Scoble #1 on the list! more »

  • death of print

    Scoble kills newspapers

    "What's killing the newspaper business — with thousands of jobs lost and even the Washington Post Co.'s reporting its first loss in 37 years — is its inability to reach people like me." — Fast Company videoblogger Robert Scoble, in a column some Fast Company editor wrote for him, in which Scoble goes on to relate all of the ways he obsessively consumes newspaper articles online.

    12:00 PM on Fri Oct 10 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    626 views, 6 comments

    Most discussed macbeach: I'm quite sure he reads information that originated with the Washington Post, even if he is too dumb to know more »

  • We Listen to Robert Scoble So Cisco Employees Don't Have To

    No one told Cisco employees Scoble was talking to them

    Fast Company videoblogger Robert Scoble, embracer of new technologies and young women, has informed Twitter users everywhere that he is "talking to all Cisco employees this morning ... about the latest Web collaboration stuff." Whom he has not informed: Cisco employees everywhere. "My inbox and trash have no mention of 'scoble' anywhere," a Cisco worker bee tells us. Well, duh — the announcement must have gone out on FriendFeed.

    12:40 PM on Tue Oct 7 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    1,967 views, 14 comments

    Most discussed raincoaster: Maybe he spells phonetically. There's a company here called Sysco that provides bathroom and cleaning supplies to restaurants... more »

  • We Read FriendFeed So You Don't Have To

    Scoble blames you for the breadlines, Tony

    FriendFeed is the best Scoble-tracking technology ever. Without it, I'd never have caught his blurt-out reply to PopTech conference cofounder Anthony Citrano: "Breadlines are coming and I'll personally blame people like you ... celebrating on the backs of the working suckers who will now get laid off." Hey, I'm one of those working suckers. Writers don't get laid off — we get unpublished in advance.

    3:40 PM on Tue Sep 30 2008
    By Paul Boutin
    305 views, 5 comments

    Latest by MildredBabararacucudada: Great post - thanks. I did a Vid just about this based on crap in the MSM and main street's more »

  • lists

    The Scoble 165 -- you're not on it

    If you follow Robert Scoble at all — and you sort of have to unless your DSL is dead — you know he can't help overproliferating everything he does. While the entire staff of Vanity Fair takes months to assemble its 100 most powerful list, Fast Company's token webhead spews 165 names in one pass for his "hand-picked list of the people who provide the most interesting tech blogging/tweeting/FriendFeeding." Robert, let me put on my old Condé Nast editor's hat and redline this back to you: GREAT START, BUT PLS TELL US WHO THE FK THS PPL ARE: More »

    3:20 PM on Fri Sep 26 2008
    By Paul Boutin
    1,515 views, 16 comments

    Most discussed Scobleizer: I'm slowly updating the list with a bit about each person. more »

  • robert scoble

    How to build your brand as an Internet addict

    "The more you participate the more people will subscribe to you ... or like you," promises Fast Company teleblogger Robert Scoble, whose answer to "How do I build my brand?" starts 20 seconds into this one-minute clip. My 15-word version: If you spend all your time on FriendFeed, you'll be a big deal. On FriendFeed.

    7:00 PM on Thu Sep 25 2008
    By Paul Boutin
    546 views, 9 comments

    Most discussed cv: And here's my 12-word version: "Be young, blonde, and busty. If you're not, hire someone who is." more »