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1. June 11th, 2006 at 8:31 pm

   ted

   Proof that if you read Techmeme, you are part of a bubble inside a bubble, which has no bearing on reality.

2. June 12th, 2006 at 3:25 pm

   Nielsen BuzzMetrics' BlogPulse Newswire

   Podtech Network Inc) is by far the biggest blog news of the day. So much so that over the weekend, Scoble himself had to set the record straight about why he’s leaving, and that piece of writing is today’s No. 2 most-cited blog post. The blogger atPublishing 2.0 likens it to the Pope leaving Catholicism, while another simply wishes him well. And that’s not all… And what’s the most-cited news story? Bloggers meeting with other bloggers: the recently completed

3. June 12th, 2006 at 5:57 pm

   Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog @ SeattlePI.com

   “I had fewer calls about the last big re-org at Microsoft,” marvels industry analyst Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research. Judging from the coverage, “you’d think the Pope had left Catholicism,”writes Scott Karp on the Publishing 2.0 blog. (Link via Nielsen BuzzMetrics.) Dan Farber points out that Scoble was the top search term at Technorati.com at one point over the weekend, temporarily surpassing the World Cup. And Paul Kedrosky questions the “bizarre fascination” with Scoble’s

4. June 13th, 2006 at 7:21 am

   Simple IO : The buzz about Robert Scoble, Microsoft blogger

   [...] The buzz about Robert Scoble, Microsoft blogger It looks like there exist other people who ask also the same question I asked in my last post about the amount of blogs/news that wrote about Robert Scoble move from Microsoft “will I have this chance someday :-)”.check this post on Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog @ SeattlePI.com, I had copied it here:Let’s see, today’s big Microsoft news has been covered by The Associated Press, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and the BBC, among others. Has the company made a big acquisition? Fired a top executive? Released Windows Vista? Nope, the stories are all about blogger Robert Scoble’s decision to leave.”I had fewer calls about the last big re-org at Microsoft,” marvels industry analyst Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research.Judging from the coverage, “you’d think the Pope had left Catholicism,” writes Scott Karp on the Publishing 2.0 blog. (Link via Nielsen BuzzMetrics.) Dan Farber points out that Scoble was the top search term at Technorati.com at one point over the weekend, temporarily surpassing the World Cup. And Paul Kedrosky questions the “bizarre fascination” with Scoble’s departure. But one of Kedrosky’s readers, Mathew Ingram, responds: “I think the attention paid to Scoble says more about Microsoft than it does about either Scoble or the blogosphere — my point being that part of the fascination with him stems from the fact that he is such a contrast to the vast, soulless, Borg-plex that is Microsoft.”Microsoft’s Don Dodge puts it a different way: “Robert did more in his three years at Microsoft to improve the corporate image than any one I know. In his own unique way he put a friendly, honest, and responsive face on Microsoft.” Scoble himself seems overwhelmed: “OK, it is indeed a bit over the top that I’m the top tech news on the BBC right now,” he writes on his blog. “Can’t Google announce something, please?”In writing about Microsoft PR issues, one person Scoble would often refer to was Frank Shaw, president of the Microsoft account at Waggener Edstrom, the company’s longtime PR firm. On his blog, Shaw assesses Scoble’s impact: [...]