Comments on: Scoble Taking A Break

By: Michael Fultz

Michael Fultz — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:43:26 +0000

Well, everyone’s different. If Scoble says he needs a break, then he needs one. I appreciate his honesty. It is better to tell your readership what is going on instead of letting them guess… or, maybe?

By: Skellie

Skellie — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:22:57 +0000

I like Robert Scoble. I wasn’t a regular reader of his blog because his topic wasn’t of much interest to me but I did respect the way he carried himself in the blogosphere.

Unfortunately blogging hiatuses tend to differ from ordinary hiatuses in that they usually don’t end with the person returning…

By: webomatica

webomatica — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:26:37 +0000

Now that is a good point. I’m obviously forgetting that some bloggers actually do it as a full time profession. I would definitely be treating the blog thing much differently if doing it for a company vs. my own business, or a hobby. Taking it much more seriously, which means “taking a break” would be much harder to do or justify.

By: SpragueD

SpragueD — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:34:30 +0000

Scoble is notoriously thin-skinned. He takes one of these “breaks” every time he gets disillusioned about the blogosphere (most recently because Valleywag got up his nose). More evidence, if we needed it, that even the A-list bloggers aren’t journalists and shouldn’t be thought of as such. Can you imagine a reporter at the Wall Street Journal taking a “break” from his job because he was the target of nastiness?

By: Tish Grier

Tish Grier — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:21:16 +0000

“Techmaiming” lol! yep–guilty as charged!

I’ve taken blogging breaks from time to time–because I’m busy with a project or something else. Breaks on the weekends are important for me too. It’s nice to feel the sunshine on my face, go for a walk, remember what people look like

By: Steven Hodson

Steven Hodson — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:46:36 +0000

As one who does treat this as a full time type of gig I threw in my two cents as well

http://www.winextra.com/2007/08/13/gotta-hate-it-when-reality-bites-eh-robert/

By: webomatica

webomatica — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:16:53 +0000

Hmmm, great point. I obviously didn’t even consider the fact that many of us don’t blog full time as a profession as does Scoble.

And the fact that many of us blog as a hobby has saved me more than once — if I were required to write only about technology to pay the bills, I’d have a given up a while ago. Whenever I want to blow off some steam and take a break I can write about Valley of the Dolls or Battlestar Galactica

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:26:50 +0000

Techmaiming — heh, heh, dude, that’s *me*

As for Scoble wanting to take a break, I’m not sure I’m entirely sympathetic. There’s very little of we all do online that “makes a difference” — not to say it doesn’t exist, but for most of us its just fun. For someone in the business for so long its a bit surprising that Scoble hasn’t had this epiphany yet. Or, perhaps, like most of us, he requires a bit of reminding every now and again.

I know I blog to blow off steam and to have a laugh — because I *know* I don’t take it too *too* seriously. But imagine if it was your life? Yeah, I’d have angst too.

Cheers
t @ dji