<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Scobleizer]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://scobleizer.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Robert Scoble]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://scobleizer.blog/author/scobleizer/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Scoble hype around the&nbsp;world]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>You know your life is totally out of whack when major news outlets write stuff like this:</p>
<p>The Guardian: <a href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1797186,00.html">Who is Robert Scoble and does anyone care</a>?</p>
<p>PC Magazine: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=2085106">Gates vs. Scoble Smackdown</a>. <i>(Um, Jim, can you tell me what kind of Merlot you were drinking when writing this? I&#039;d love some of that! Heheh.)</i></p>
<p>Redmond Magazine: <a href="http://www.redmondmag.com/reports/article.asp?EditorialsID=308">No more Scoble to kick around</a>. <i>(What, am I going somewhere?)</i></p>
<p>Inquirer: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32466">Ego-crazed Scoble burns bridges</a>. <i>(Heheheh. What I love is that this headline got Valleywag to join in with its own headline: <a href="http://www.valleywag.com/tech/inquirer/how-to-make-news-from-nothing-the-inquirers-hyperbole-181422.php">How to make news from nothing: The Inquirer&#039;s hyperbole</a>.)</i></p>
<p>The Economist: <a href="http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=7064443">Blogging Off</a> <i>(If there was one thing that&nbsp;put me on the&nbsp;corporate blogging map,&nbsp;it was being in the Economist. That magazine is more influential with executives than even the New York Times.)</i></p>
<p>Whew, all this because I took a new job.</p>
<p>Oh, several people asked whether I knew Bill Gates would quit this week. I had absolutely NO idea until minutes before I posted about it.</p>
<p>Sometimes in life you gotta get lucky. Making my decision last weekend instead of this weekend was definitely lucky.</p>
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