August 22, 2006

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1. You joined Microsoft in 2003, not 2002.

   I suppose by the time you read this, that might have been fixed.

   - adam

   Comment by Adam Barr — August 22, 2006 @ 10:15 pm

2. Good point, but I have a policy of not touching my Wikipedia page (due to the political fallout that it can cause). So, could you correct that for me? I did join in May 2003.

   Comment by Robert Scoble — August 22, 2006 @ 10:31 pm

3. You could get Patrick to edit it :)
   I didn’t know you were VP at Podtech ;) Now I can better understand why you left MS.

   Comment by met — August 22, 2006 @ 11:47 pm

4. Robert,

   Who showed you the internet for the fist time???

   Comment by Xavier Lefèvre — August 23, 2006 @ 5:27 am

5. Shamless self promotion to keep hits on your wiki page so it doesn’t vanish into the dead zone.

   Between this and the cartoons you’re just riding high.
   Precede with caution.

   With that said, it’s pretty cool to be relevant. Kudos

   Comment by -dn — August 23, 2006 @ 5:35 am

6. As expected, by the time I read your reply it had already been fixed by someone else (presumably based on your comment, since it included May in the date).

   I expected a Wired Magazine wired/tired/expired to soon appear with personal domain name under “tired” and Wikipedia page under “wired”. They do guard against “vanity pages” so I don’t know if I would qualify for one…

   - adam

   Comment by Adam Barr — August 23, 2006 @ 8:43 am

7. It was somethat hard to digg all this information and it’s still biases as it’s based on your postings, comments or interviews.

   One of examples - your “No resume” policy - without resume it’s almost impossible to figure your actual education level and then verify it. Is you are so kind today - can you clarify this statement:
   https://www.mainfunction.com/DotNetInAction/Technologies/display.aspx?ID=2862&TypeID=11
   “University/Education:
   San Jose State University (almost graduated, I still have one class left to complete)”

   As well - without resume I’ve decided to not get into risk of listing your expirience in NEC found on CraigsList after runned out of money on UserLand and how you got to work twice in Fawcette (and all your expirience on managing conferences) and evangelism at Winnov.
   As well decided to keep out of your website that Mariam was also working in Microsoft MSDN Webcasts team.

   There are still a lot of information missing from your article. I’ve intentionaly decided to not add any (but it’s all in externals links) and wait for somebody else to to this. Nothing like that I’ve expected happened - so in realy this mean your ego is way over-boosted.
   The fact that you was one of first users in UserLand gived you a high visibily to bloggers - but not to rest of world.

   Comment by TAG — August 23, 2006 @ 2:44 pm

8. Hey Robert, I’m one of the people keeping an eye on the article every day so that it stays in good shape. It’s good that you’ve chosen not to edit it yourself to add information; it’s strongly preferred that contributions to Wikipedia can be traced back to published, reliable sources. If you ever find yourself motivated to write about past work or life experiences that would make for suitable biographical material, doing it here is obviously a great place, and interested people will get it into the encyclopedia eventually. :-)

   Comment by warren — August 23, 2006 @ 3:39 pm

9. The link to “Steve Sloan” on your bio on wikipedia says “Steve Sloan was the head football coach at Duke University.” Well, a Steve Sloan may have been…

   But not me…

   Steve “not the coach” Sloan

   Comment by ssloansjca — August 23, 2006 @ 9:03 pm

10. Dang, Steve, you beat me to the punch on that! And, how come Robert’s Wiki entry doesn’t mention ANYTHING about smart quotes? Hmmm…

    Comment by Motormouth — August 24, 2006 @ 12:00 pm

11. Scoble, you have one of the few Wikipedia pages out there that talks about the amount of money you make at work. That of course excludes professional athletes, where their salary is often heavily detailed.

    My point? Okay, I don’t really have one, I just thought it was amusing.

    Comment by Jeramey Jannene — September 3, 2006 @ 12:16 pm

12. Jeramey: I’m one of the few bloggers who has put my salary up on my blog. Actually, it’s inaccurate now, cause I make a little more than I made at Microsoft.

    Comment by Robert Scoble — September 3, 2006 @ 12:23 pm

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