The Robert Scoble interview

What did I expect when I called Robert Scoble, perhaps the best-​​​​known blogger to have become famous for blogging? I wasn’t sure. Maybe someone very Californian. In the bad way.

Anyway, he isn’t. Yes, he’s laid-​​​​back and he did use the expres­sion ‘real good’. We only had a short con­ver­sa­tion, but I can imagine him being a big hugger. I like that

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The new media interview

A-​​​​list bloggers are spurning the tra­di­tional media inter­view, says Steve Rubel. Instead of the normal pro­cedure (reporter asks the ques­tions, you answer them and then the reporter goes and writes it all up), the move is towards written responses. Apparently, Mark Cuban will only do email. Dave Winer answers inter­view ques­tions on his blog.

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Not so light reading

Some very big numbers in David Sifry’s new report about the stat­istics thrown up by the blog tracking service Technorati:

Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs. The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago. Today, the blo­go­sphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once

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Another get-​​rich-​​quick scheme foiled

Thanks to Drew B for drawing my atten­tion to a fant­astic article about blogging in New York magazine. The gist of it is that while blogs can earn money for writers, it’s not very likely. There are a number of issues, but the key is the number of inbound links. A large site with a staff can produce

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