Robert Scoble making an ass out of himself repeatedly.
He actually interrupted Tony Hsieh in mid-sentence in the middle of his talk, and with an obviously stupid question that Tony shot down without really missing a beat: "What specifically do you ask people in interviews to see if they're egotistical?"
A few minutes into Zuckerberg's talk he started raising his hand, and then spent the remainder bouncing up and down in his chair. From all that buildup I expected him to ask a confrontational drama-queen non-question about Friendfeed, but instead he nervously asked a nonsense question about how he's managing his employees as he wanders their offices. It seemed to me that it was some veiled drama, or something only a company-tour addict would give a shit about.
In one of the later talks someone thankfully took the microphone back from him before he could try to ask another question after the final one (he was standing and approaching the stage!)
At first I was thinking that he should be actively disinvited from future events, but I had a long productive conversation with him afterwards (though not about his recent asshattery, his face is pink enough as it is). I've come to the conclusion that his presence is useful, but that he should never be allowed to ask questions — the best that could happen is irrelevant softball non-questions that waste everyone's time.
To be honest he wasn't the only one asking stupid/long-winded/time-wasting questions. Some people kinda need to learn how to prepare and succinctly make a point.
a) The people asking questions weren't public speakers. Speaking in front of 800+ strangers with a mic in your hand is nerve wracking for a lot of people; cut them some slack.
b) Nobody else had such a huge ego to interrupt a speaker on stage in the middle of his talk. Let alone in the first 5 minutes of it. It was humorous that he interrupted the CEO of Zappos to ask a question about how to figure out who the ego-centric people were.
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Robert Scoble making an ass out of himself repeatedly.
He actually interrupted Tony Hsieh in mid-sentence in the middle of his talk, and with an obviously stupid question that Tony shot down without really missing a beat: "What specifically do you ask people in interviews to see if they're egotistical?"
A few minutes into Zuckerberg's talk he started raising his hand, and then spent the remainder bouncing up and down in his chair. From all that buildup I expected him to ask a confrontational drama-queen non-question about Friendfeed, but instead he nervously asked a nonsense question about how he's managing his employees as he wanders their offices. It seemed to me that it was some veiled drama, or something only a company-tour addict would give a shit about.
In one of the later talks someone thankfully took the microphone back from him before he could try to ask another question after the final one (he was standing and approaching the stage!)
At first I was thinking that he should be actively disinvited from future events, but I had a long productive conversation with him afterwards (though not about his recent asshattery, his face is pink enough as it is). I've come to the conclusion that his presence is useful, but that he should never be allowed to ask questions — the best that could happen is irrelevant softball non-questions that waste everyone's time.
I sat up to see who the hell was being an idiot and when I saw him I was just like "oh, Scoble". I guess people kind of expect it from him these days.
Seconded. I recognize that he's an influential member of the tech community, but interrupting Tony Hsieh with his lame question? Totally unacceptable.
To be honest he wasn't the only one asking stupid/long-winded/time-wasting questions. Some people kinda need to learn how to prepare and succinctly make a point.
a) The people asking questions weren't public speakers. Speaking in front of 800+ strangers with a mic in your hand is nerve wracking for a lot of people; cut them some slack.
b) Nobody else had such a huge ego to interrupt a speaker on stage in the middle of his talk. Let alone in the first 5 minutes of it. It was humorous that he interrupted the CEO of Zappos to ask a question about how to figure out who the ego-centric people were.