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Ah, hello I am about to make waves again in a comparison of Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington. Grab a drink and munchies and enjoy the ride.
Robert Scoble claims the role of tech evangelist and reports on high tech. often times he gets things wrong or makes huge goofs representative of clueless PR flacks. Recently he made a blanket statement dismissing start-ups at the demo conference. Thus, lets review Robert Scoble's expertise. His resume is no longer listed at his blog so lets look at the wikipedia article.
At no time in his career has Robert Socble served in a technical position. He has never formed any start-up. And you will notice that all his jobs have a indirect or direct pr focus. No that there is anything wrong with PR in of itself, but at some point you have to know what it is that you are making use of PR for at some point.
Now contrast that with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. According to his wikipedia article he has founded and co-founded 4 start-ups in high tech. When the need to learn something in order to build a start up product Michael Arrington jumps right in even though he made not of been able to touch that area of knowledge before such as his recent jump into a tabletPC adventure. Michael Arrington in his coverage of high tech at TechCrunch has been right more times than Robert Scoble being both wrong and right combined.
It is unfortunate that the start-ups at Demo after paying a sponsorship fee have to endure the Flackage of a Scoble who has know experienced driven insight into the web application start up adventure. Trust me even when Michael Arrington dismisses you in a funny way such as his video miss pronouncing my last name after my social media experiment on Friend Feed he does not make blanket statements and does not insult the hard work yo u put into a start up.
In the effort of full disclosure, I wsa fan of Robert Scoble when he was at Userland as blog evangelist. When he talks about blogging and writes about blogging he seems to reduce his error rate compared to when he blogs about high tech. I have also fonded some start-ups that did not make it so take my words with a grain of salt however thus far I have been great at predicting what will fail or changing Michael Arrignton's classic line to Epic Fail. My most recent being wrong was assuming that I could talk a founder into letting me use my experience in development to match a development plan up against business goals and market conditions to enable to start up to succeed and due to not getting that aspect changed the Chicago start up failed as it was attempting to buid a platform it did not have resources to build rather than customize a platform already out within the marketplace.
Another way to state the difference between Robert Scoble and Michael Arrington is that Robert Scoble has empathy somewhere whereas Michael Arrington has empathy for start-ups from actual start up experience. Its a big difference in how high tech is covered.
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