I’m starting to like the new Scoble, the one who doesn’t work for Microsoft:
Microsofties take it on face value that they host the most blogs. They even love shoving it in your face. Yesterday someone who works on the Windows Live team was taunting me with “influentials don’t matter, we got to be #1 and we don’t care that there aren’t any influential bloggers using our stuff.â€
I was hoping someone would take Microsoft on their PR bluff, ever since they boasted the number of Live users to some absurd millions. I’m one of those people. I once signed for HotMail when it was useful, dumped it when MSN took over. Now I officially count as a Microsoft Live “user”.
Even if my account is /dev/null
Of course, glory of the past has nothing to do with attention in the present. But don’t let that stop the PR machine.
If I don’t take up any space on your disks or any bandwidth from your network, am I really a user or just a record in the database?
Anyway, this is turning into a semantic debate:
Maryam just said “I think you’re full of it. I think you’re picking on the Spaces team because they are easy to pick on. Why don’t you go pick on someone who is hard to pick on?†(She was just screaming because her Mac didn’t display her blog properly).
How do you define a blog?
I think there needs to be a blogger behind it, someone who actually cares for the content. But how do you measure that? Or could we just assume Microsoft maintains a blog for every person who ever activated a copy of Windows?
Photo by hues06.