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This quote from Scoble, shows perfectly why NMDs are idiots:

But all that isn’t the real reason why Facebook is the big loser.

Facebook has another problem. People think it’s a service for talking to your college friends. Or your close “real world” friends and family. I watch my wife and that’s how she uses it. She doesn’t understand that Facebook needs to move her into their public world so that they can turn on search and enable other cool experiences that will go outside of her little walled garden.

What Facebook needs to do is listen to your wife, and smack you upside the head every time you try to talk to them. It is people like Maryam Scoble who matter, not morons like Robert Scoble. Robert Scoble, and his ilk, care about one thing: themselves, and their needs. What are their needs? Why, to be fellated at every turn and have their ideas treated like the very utterances of $DEITY$.

Who makes money by listening to any New Media Douchebag? Other NMDs. Running your company the way a Scoble or an Arrington or a Winer wants you to will land you in bankruptcy court, because none of those fuckers are your customers. They are, at best, untrustworthy paid shills. That may say nice things about you, or may call your stuff crap, and you'll never know why either happens. Shit, not a one of them has created anything worth a fuck. Winer bullshits everyone about RSS, when he even admits he stole it from Netscape. Arrington? How're the sales on that tablet doing? Scoble? He hit his peak asking someone if they wanted a nice lens with that new camera body, and putting both in a plastic bag.

You want good ideas, listen to your actual customers, not jackasses who only care about themselves.

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