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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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3 December 2004 - 10:10 am
Have you guys heard about Robert Scoble? He's a blogger who was hired by Microsoft to say nice things about their products. (His title is "technical evangelist.") I've been reading his blog for a while now, and in truth he's more of an apologist than anything else. His MS-related posts seem mostly to follow one of the following scripts:
Script One (Example: Dave, your screen is blurry!)
- A friend has a problem with a MS product.
- Scoble tries to fix the problem.
- Scoble realizes that it's really hard to fix the problem.
- Scoble promises that MS will work really hard to fix this problem in the next release of whatever product is under discussion.
Script Two (Example: MSN Spaces isn't the blogging service for me)
- MS releases a new product.
- Scoble tells you why the new product is a step in the right direction, but that he won't be using it.
Script Three (Example: Mike's MSN Spaces blog is most interesting)
- Scoble discovers a new blog by a MS employee or a new Channel 9 story.
- Scoble tells us that this new discovery is great and an example of how all {new discoveries} should be.
So having discovered both that its possible to make money by writing posts about MS products and that the posts can follow a few simple styles, I want to know where I go to sign up for a job like that. And if they won't pay me, they should at least hook Ron up; he's been very good about explaining why pretty Apple boxes don't necessarily make for nice products, which ought to be good news for Microsoft.
Posted by on 3 December 2004 at 10:11 AM
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How shameless....uh, when can I start getting $$? It will pay for the gas as I drive to and from the Apple Store in West County. It'll be so much nicer when the one in the Galleria opens. Notice how they always put these stores in locations where rent must be huge?
Posted by rkc on 12 December 2004 - 7:57 AM