Ahh, the blogs are boring this morning. Too much talk about how cool it’d be if everyone could be an A lister. Me? I just want to be a Z lister. Why? I get too much email. I can’t even get started on my show. It’s a conspiracy to keep me down. I think Om and Mike are telling all their fans “email Scoble, it’ll keep him uninteresting.”
Well, one advantage of Maryam having a famous blog is she gets invited to Evelyn Rodriguez’ dinners. I didn’t know a single person other than Evelyn when we went last night. What do you do when you’re in such a situation? I went up to someone (turned out it was Charles Adkins, who doesn’t have a blog) and asked “do you watch Ze Frank?”
I was expecting a totally dead stare. But, damn, that got a reaction. “I love Ze!!!”
Ahhh, a fellow member of the ORG. We were instant friends. Anyone who likes Ze is cool in my book.
Speaking of the ORG (Ze’s little social experiment tool that you can use to find people near you that also listen to Ze), Michael Markman just wrote me and said “he blinked.”
Yes, Ze isn’t feeling well today. Now we know that blinking is a disease and must be stopped. Do it enough and you’ll die. It’s a scientific fact. I read it on a blog. It must be true.
OK, enough pandering to someone with real talent hoping that I’ll get a link, or a blink as it were,Β to justify my existenceΒ keep my ego sufficiently stroked.
Oh, yes, someday I’ll have the writing skill of Evelyn RodriguezΒ and I’ll figure out where she got those peaches she was serving last night. They melted in my mouth the way stuff off the trees in Silicon Valley used to (it was an orchard, I miss the apricots).
Evelyn told me last night she’s trying to shine light on things of value that few people get to see. She held her little shindig in an art gallery. Her food was hand picked from farmers markets. She was wearing a great hand-made shirt with hand made jewelry. And she invited some very interesting people. That explains her tone on her blog lately. For those who don’t know, she rode out the tsunami in Thailand a year and a half ago and she hasn’t stopped riding life ever since.
David Chamberlain impressed Maryam and I. He does philanthropic travel, is founder of Exquisite Safaris. Takes rich people to weird and exotic places and, in return, gets them to donate to local causes where they help out for a day or two. Go to Victoria Falls? Build a school.
He got me to think. Every day I have a choice. Do I tear down someone else? Or build up someone’s efforts?
I just created a WetPaint Wiki for those who love Ze Frank. Leave your URL and see how it works. More on why I did that next post.
Anyway, other reasons I want to be on the Z list? Cause then all my friends wouldn’t know when I piss off Maryam by doing something stupid.
Scobleizer 
Are you trying to hire/collaborate with Ze?
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Are you trying to hire/collaborate with Ze?
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Dileepa: everyone has to have a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal). π
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Dileepa: everyone has to have a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal). π
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Yeah, I watched Ze for the first time yesterday, and when he blinked three or four times, I was wondering why you said he never did.
When are you going to start telling us more about your work at PodTech? Don’t make me email you!!! π
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Yeah, I watched Ze for the first time yesterday, and when he blinked three or four times, I was wondering why you said he never did.
When are you going to start telling us more about your work at PodTech? Don’t make me email you!!! π
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As for the uninteresting comment, I actually prefer your current style of blogging a lot more than the “old” Scoble if you like, it’s more personal, more insightful…and naturally it’s less Microsoft π
Scoble 2.0 is a good Scoble π
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As for the uninteresting comment, I actually prefer your current style of blogging a lot more than the “old” Scoble if you like, it’s more personal, more insightful…and naturally it’s less Microsoft π
Scoble 2.0 is a good Scoble π
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Anyone who likes Ze is cool in my book.
I guess I am not cool then, mark it down as another thing I “just don’t get”. Some netified dandruff, spazzing Colbertish Daily Show ripoff-off rants, with a weird stare, and way too many head-spinning zoom jump cuts, as the chief pull? A tone down, and a quirky sense of humor (and a teleprompter), and you could have another Alton Brown…sorta. But that SNL style is well well overdone. Thank God for the Internet, the dumping (and filtering out) ground for Hollywood and Burbank.
Z List, eh? You’d break out in hives, you wouldn’t last an hour. False humility is not your best suit.
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Anyone who likes Ze is cool in my book.
I guess I am not cool then, mark it down as another thing I “just don’t get”. Some netified dandruff, spazzing Colbertish Daily Show ripoff-off rants, with a weird stare, and way too many head-spinning zoom jump cuts, as the chief pull? A tone down, and a quirky sense of humor (and a teleprompter), and you could have another Alton Brown…sorta. But that SNL style is well well overdone. Thank God for the Internet, the dumping (and filtering out) ground for Hollywood and Burbank.
Z List, eh? You’d break out in hives, you wouldn’t last an hour. False humility is not your best suit.
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You want to be on the Z-list AND the Ze-list? That’s OK. Just as long as you don’t start aiming for the z-z-z-z-list.
If you’re new to Ze, there’s some of his earlier video work on . Look under stuff to watch. For starters, I’d recommend his 2004 take on social networking, “smallworld.” and his love song to Condoleezza “condi.”
There’s design work, photography, and some sly and witty flash games as well. Lots of depth to Ze beyond his current TheShow format.
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You want to be on the Z-list AND the Ze-list? That’s OK. Just as long as you don’t start aiming for the z-z-z-z-list.
If you’re new to Ze, there’s some of his earlier video work on . Look under stuff to watch. For starters, I’d recommend his 2004 take on social networking, “smallworld.” and his love song to Condoleezza “condi.”
There’s design work, photography, and some sly and witty flash games as well. Lots of depth to Ze beyond his current TheShow format.
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oops… the older Ze stuff can be accessed from http://www.zefrank.com
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oops… the older Ze stuff can be accessed from http://www.zefrank.com
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Christopher: if we were really greedy, traffic-hungry brats we’d go on TV and do a debate show.
Hmmm, that actually might be fun. I’d be at the losing side of the stick too often for my tastes, though.
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Christopher: if we were really greedy, traffic-hungry brats we’d go on TV and do a debate show.
Hmmm, that actually might be fun. I’d be at the losing side of the stick too often for my tastes, though.
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Thanks Robert. Well, I must admit I don’t know Ze myself, but as you can see if you have a small yet diverse group there’ll be someone somewhere in there that knows just about anything under the sun that pops up. (Wisdom of the crowds?) I was fascinated finding all the connections people had to each other although absolutely nobody knew more than 1-3 people before they showed up.
On the one-year tsunami anniversary trip through Thailand and Sri Lanka, I got into habit of talking face-to-face with several new people every day. I continued the habit after I got home and have met fascinating creative, passionate people doing projects and products from fashion designers to sculptors to executive chefs to cafe owners and more. I’m really fascinated that most of them just list their phone number, period, on their business card. So I’d like to help a few of my favorite boutiques and artisan wares doing good work in the world be introduced to the blogosphere, and vice versa.
It was a blast having both you and Maryam there now that you’re back in Bay Area. White peaches? On Saturday, Kashiwase Farms sells their products at the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market, Berkeley Farmers’ Market, Aptos, Grand Lake, Danville, Orinda, and San Mateo markets. Sunday they can be found at the Marin Civic Center Farmers’ Market, Jack London Square, Walnut Creek, Mt. View, Menlo Park and Belmont markets.
& Half Moon Bay Farmer’s Market: http://www.halfmoonbaychamber.org/visiting_hmb/ecotourism/farmersmarkets.html
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Thanks Robert. Well, I must admit I don’t know Ze myself, but as you can see if you have a small yet diverse group there’ll be someone somewhere in there that knows just about anything under the sun that pops up. (Wisdom of the crowds?) I was fascinated finding all the connections people had to each other although absolutely nobody knew more than 1-3 people before they showed up.
On the one-year tsunami anniversary trip through Thailand and Sri Lanka, I got into habit of talking face-to-face with several new people every day. I continued the habit after I got home and have met fascinating creative, passionate people doing projects and products from fashion designers to sculptors to executive chefs to cafe owners and more. I’m really fascinated that most of them just list their phone number, period, on their business card. So I’d like to help a few of my favorite boutiques and artisan wares doing good work in the world be introduced to the blogosphere, and vice versa.
It was a blast having both you and Maryam there now that you’re back in Bay Area. White peaches? On Saturday, Kashiwase Farms sells their products at the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market, Berkeley Farmers’ Market, Aptos, Grand Lake, Danville, Orinda, and San Mateo markets. Sunday they can be found at the Marin Civic Center Farmers’ Market, Jack London Square, Walnut Creek, Mt. View, Menlo Park and Belmont markets.
& Half Moon Bay Farmer’s Market: http://www.halfmoonbaychamber.org/visiting_hmb/ecotourism/farmersmarkets.html
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Robert –
Thanks for your kind words and positive spirit, welcome to the neighorhood. I enjoyed speaking with you and Maryam very much.
A new opportunity exists in every second.
I am not being glib. It’s true.
Every second you have the opportunity to
Love instead of hate,
To be positive instead of negative,
To smile instead of frown,
To believe instead of disbelieve.
By loving, being positive, smiling and believing
on a second-to-second basis, no matter what is
Happening externally or internally to you,
You become superior to fate.
-F. Lenz
Naked conversations can change the world!
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Robert –
Thanks for your kind words and positive spirit, welcome to the neighorhood. I enjoyed speaking with you and Maryam very much.
A new opportunity exists in every second.
I am not being glib. It’s true.
Every second you have the opportunity to
Love instead of hate,
To be positive instead of negative,
To smile instead of frown,
To believe instead of disbelieve.
By loving, being positive, smiling and believing
on a second-to-second basis, no matter what is
Happening externally or internally to you,
You become superior to fate.
-F. Lenz
Naked conversations can change the world!
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Ha! I caught that Ze blinked too. π
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Ha! I caught that Ze blinked too. π
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Blog of directtv
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oops… the older Ze stuff can be accessed from http://www.zefrank.com
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oops… the older Ze stuff can be accessed from http://www.zefrank.com
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