Dear Robert:
I’m not going to get into the firestorm that is taking place on your blog today about the new BETA (it’s just a BETA guys) for IE7, but I think you are going to end up eating your hat for this quote:
“It’s interesting that many bloggers (both pro and amateur) have been giving me crud the past week or two for “being fast to publish” and “not calling sources to check on my reporting” but that the Register, a professional journalism outlet (they get paid for journalism, I do not) apparently didn’t call our development teams to check into this report and get their side of the story.”
Umm, Robert, you are a journalist now. And you’re also the second most influential executive technical evangelist at Microsoft. There’s a set of responsibilities that comes with that, and one of them is checking your facts.
Your friend and admirer,
B.L.
Robert Scoble Is Going to Have to Eat His Hat
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I’m not an executive. Get your facts right.
:-)
Seriously. I’m seven levels down from execs. Just a lowly technical evangelist.
Yup, it’s pretty clear that my blog is seeing rising expectations on it. I’ll respond. Of course, I’m not a professional journalist and Orlowski is. Yet he can get away with posting completely made up bull on his site.
Amazing.
Yes, expectations of your blog definitely are rising. And I’m sure you’ll rise to the challenge.
I think the free bloggers have a long way to go before they’re held up to the same standards as, say, Dan Rather. That’s the real reason that, for example, the NY Times remains relevant.