--- title: "Scoble on .Net Rocks? Give me a break.." url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/5/scoble-on-net-rocks-give-me-a-break.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/5/scoble-on-net-rocks-give-me-a-break.html" published: "2003-10-05T17:41:00" updated: "2003-10-05T17:41:00" tags: ["Blogging", "Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "OK. Is it just me or does it sound really ridiculous that Scoble is being interviewed for the NET Rocks show ? I mean, How is Scoble related to .Net development, other that the fact that he knows people who do it? Oh,…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Scoble on .Net Rocks? Give me a break.. By Roy Osherove October 5, 2003 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published October 5, 2003; technical details may be outdated. OK. Is it just me or does it sound really ridiculous that [Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/) is being [interviewed](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/10/05.html#a4916) for the [NET Rocks show](http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks.asp)? I mean, How is [Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/) related to .Net development, other that the fact that he **knows** people who do it? Oh, and he's helping to arrange the PDC. That's cool, but I can still conclude the following: -  Scoble is not a .net developer, so the conversation will **have** to be about other stuff. Let's see, what will it be about? What does [Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/) really like to talk about these days? Um, maybe about the upcoming PDC? maybe Longhorn? - A lot of stuff (most of it) that's going to appear in the PDC is still confidential, so obviously, the conversation couldn't go that way. So, the conversation,again, will **have** to be about something else. Um, maybe, how “cool“ Longhorn and the PDC are going to be? - [Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/) throws names around like they were darts in a [dart contest](http://www.roseandcrown.it/UK_tdc_ph2.html). I bet  we'll get to hear how “cool“ all the stuff he's heard about is, oh but sorry, he can't tell us anything about it, right? We'll have to wait until the PDC to find out. What are the main reasons a show like  [NET Rocks show](http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks.asp) wants to interview [Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/)? Um, could it be all the endless hype? I fear it's going to be a whole show about nothing really. Will I learn anything new from it? I'm guessing not. Reading [Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/) in the past month has been excruciating. I might as well sign up for some tech news site, because there's nothing in there I couldn't get anywhere else. He seems to be more involved in linking to other stuff than generating actual content.  When his latest blog just started (after moving to MS) I would read him judiciously. He would write some very insightful posts. But now, it's all about hype hype hype. I'm tired of it. I'd like to say “unsubscribed“, but I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm gonna keep reading him, just because every once in a **long** while, he manages to still come up with something I haven't heard before that would interest me. Mind you, that hasn't happened in more than a week. This may sound like a big flame, but it's not. It's more of a request. [Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/), please go back to the way you used to be. I miss your “real“ writing. Interviewing for the .Net Rocks shows seems silly and artificial. Return to the real you. Don't make the hype be all that you are. ## More in Blogging [All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging) - Oct 8, 2003 ### [Why I like SharpReader better](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/8/why-i-like-sharpreader-better.html) - Oct 6, 2003 ### [.Net Rocks closure, suggestion, and discovering Salamander. 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