Geez, get over yourselves
Scoble and Winer need to get over themselves:
Anyway, I totally understand why Dave would want to walk away. I’m staring at hundreds of emails and just don’t want to deal with my inbox right now. I’m gonna take the rest of the day off and hang out at SXSW. My sessions are over and now I just have to catch up with the email. I totally understand why Dave wants to take off from his blog. The pressure is just incredible to do more, more, more.
Who made me a gatekeeper? I don’t want that job.
Sheesh, what pressure? I write here because I feel like it. I don't feel pressure to write - I see things of interest to me and comment on them. I toss up Smalltalk advocacy, with examples. It's nice that I've built a decent sized traffic stream, but it's not what motivates me.
If writing is no longer fun, then hey - stop. In the meantime, don't take it too seriously. None of us are Edward Gibbons writing about the fall of the Roman Empire - it's just not that serious. Some people need to step back, take a breath, and just have fun with it.
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[] March 14, 2006 12:18:32.335
> None of us are Edward Gibbons writing about the fall
> of the Roman Empire - it's just not that serious.
No, but several are trying to write about the fall of the Redmond empire.
You have no clue
[Robert Scoble] March 14, 2006 13:12:48.995
I'm sick and tired of being told "get over myself."
You have no clue about the world I'm in. Want to come and answer my email? Want to come and speak at conferences? Want to come and deal with bosses and coworkers and people who have their own money invested in companies and all that?
This is the problem with bloggers. They assume they all know what it's like and that it's not something to be taken seriously.
I repeat
[ James Robertson] March 14, 2006 14:15:46.847
Comment by James Robertson
I repeat: Get over yourself. I get tons of email too, Robert, and I subscribe to hundreds of feeds. My day job is being a Product Manager, and - as a sideline - I develop an Aggregator and the blog server I post this stuff to. I have a very good idea of what it's like, because I live it. If you don't have time for all of it, you're going to have to do things the old fashioned way - decide which things are important, and chuck the ones that aren't. You're the one who's decided to take on too many tasks, and you're the only one that can come up with a solution.
In the meantime, the rest of us are every bit as busy, and we manage to get by without the self referential whining.
I'm doing my part
[Scott] March 14, 2006 14:33:50.927
LOL!
[Danny] March 14, 2006 16:36:02.047
I've actually got quite a lot of time for Robert, so won't paste "This is the problem with bloggers..." as a quote of the day. But I can't deny chuckling, thanks James.
Re: Geez, get over yourselves
[ John Rubier] March 15, 2006 0:04:58.603
Comment by John Rubier
You GO gir...err...James!
Missing a blog.
[Rami Kayyali] March 15, 2006 3:55:32.237
I don't know if I'm going to miss Dave's blog. Yes, he was a good read, and obviously, the man's under a lot of pressure. Give him a break.
This kind of reminds me of Mark's Dive into Mark, now that was a blog that I truly miss.