Live from Davos

January 23, 2008 By

I’m here in the World Economic Forum, writing to you from the headquarters for the Davos Question where I just interviewed the head of PR for the World Economic Forum. Keep in mind that when you see me on my Twitter account I’m actually sending live video and you can ask questions while we film. It’s really incredible to be able to do that and I thank Qik for giving me several cell phones to get lots of video up. The forum has just started (it’s 10 a.m. in the morning here) and I’m meeting incredible people and will bring more to you as I can. Places to watch:

1. My Twitter account. It gets a message every time I start a Qik video. My videos are also posted to the Davos Qik account#.
2. My Qik account. I post videos here frequently.

What are the CEOs talking about? The “economic turmoil” (which is what Matthias Leufkins, head of PR for the World Economic Forum, called it).

The Web 2.0 bloggers are talking about Automattic’s latest investment. Congratulations to Matt Mullenweg and team (they are the ones who produce the blogging software I’m using to type to you here).

Josh Spear is hanging out here too and blogging. So is Mike Arrington.

Filed Under: davos08, World Economic Forum

Off to Davos…

January 21, 2008 By

You might have noticed that I’ve slowed down my posting here. That’s cause I crammed a lot of family time into the past week. Gonna be away in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum. Traveling today. I expect I’ll get lots of video up on Qik on my Qik channel. I also have a Nikon D3, so will try to post lots of photos. See ya tomorrow, got about 20 hours of traveling ahead of me.

Filed Under: Scoble family

Make your MacMini sound much better

January 19, 2008 By

My best birthday present? Dave Winer gave me a little tiny adapter for my MacMini. What does it do? It plugs into the audio-out port of the Mini and converts that port into an optical out one. So, now my optical cable plugs into that adapter instead of my headphone jack. My receiver has optical ports. If you have a recent receiver your receiver probably has optical ports too.

Man, what a difference that makes. My Mac Mini sounds a LOT better now. Dave Winer said it was the best thing he did to his Mac Mini too.

I wonder how many people have Mac Minis and don’t even know that it has optical out capabilities, but you gotta get that little adopter first.

Thanks Dave for making my system sound a lot better!

Why does this work? My theory? The digital-to-analog converters in the MacMini suck when compared to the ones in my Denon receiver.

Filed Under: Scoble family

Microsoft PR guy trash talks Apple

January 19, 2008 By

Ahh, now you know why I still read my feeds. TechMeme doesn’t catch stuff like this, invaluable as it may be.

Frank Shaw works for Waggener Edstrom and heads the Microsoft account and has his take on Apple’s week at MacWorld.

I agree with his analysis and I too had the reaction “Apple’s doing a book reader” after Steve Jobs told a reporter that the Kindle would fail because no one reads books (he said the same thing about video on the iPod, remember?)

Along these lines, I can’t believe how some companies treat bloggers. Target, for shame! I guess I’m not a “core guest.” Funny enough I once had a Target credit card cause I spent so much money in Targets.

Filed Under: April Fools, Microsoft Office

The funniest thing at the Crunchies

January 19, 2008 By

Last night I took Patrick to the Crunchies, where we sat in the last row. Definitely the highlight of the show was when Apple won a Crunchie for the iPhone. Problem was that Mike Arrington doesn’t have any pull at Apple — they refused to send anyone to pick up the award.

So, who picked up the award? Fake Steve Jobs, of course, only he did it through a video. Beware of the language, if you’re going to play that around the kiddies this morning.

Oh, after the Crunchies? Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, came over and we had a really nice chat.

Filed Under: Scoble family

The last ScobleShow

January 18, 2008 By

It’s my birthday today (I’m 43) and, as a gift, PodTech just put up a bunch of stuff I did. That means the last PodTech ScobleShow has just been posted. Some really killer stuff, too, including interviews with my first girlfriend, Xbox Live’s Larry Hryb, Doug Engelbart, a killer 3D search interface, and much more. Enjoy and can’t wait for March 3.

Next week at Davos, though, we’ll post videos to my Qik channel from the World Economic Forum.

Filed Under: Scoble family
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