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title: "MVP Summit pointers, and a shout out to James Robertson"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/2/mvp-summit-pointers-and-a-shout-out-to-james-robertson.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/2/mvp-summit-pointers-and-a-shout-out-to-james-robertson.html"
published: "2004-04-02T23:53:00"
updated: "2004-04-02T23:53:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "How cool is this? My blog was mentioned by James Robertson (The Robert Scoble of Smalltalk?) in his talk about blogs and RSS. Thanks James. I'll be sure to mention you whenever my next user group talk becomes a reality.…"
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/"
---

# MVP Summit pointers, and a shout out to James Robertson

By Roy Osherove April 2, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 2, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

How cool is this? My blog was mentioned by [James Robertson](http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView)(The Robert [Scoble](http://scoble.weblogs.com/) of Smalltalk?)  in his [talk](http://benjaminm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=069b7efd-624e-42a5-9f4d-d28bd0a451d9) about blogs and RSS. Thanks James. I'll be sure to mention you whenever my next user group talk becomes a reality. Sure, not quite the same exposure, and, no Martin Fowler to listen, but still... ;)

On a different note, many MVPs are now gathering at Redmond for the MVP summit. A few points about that:

1. I envy you all
2. Therefore, make the best of your stay
3. God help you if you don't blog about all the cool stuff you saw and did there
4. I'm never going to read it, as it will make me more envy
5. I hope to meet you the next time around!

## More in Off Topic

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- Apr 8, 2004

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- Apr 5, 2004

    ### [Windows Media Player problem? here's a very good FAQ page](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/5/windows-media-player-problem-heres-a-very-good-faq-page.html)

- Mar 28, 2004

    ### [Another day, another contest. Wanna help?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/28/another-day-another-contest-wanna-help.html)

- Mar 28, 2004

    ### [Some engineer jokes](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/28/some-engineer-jokes.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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