Three years and two days ago, I got Scobleized.
The highlight of Robert’s informal talk was when he plugged his tablet into the projector in a packed room at the SJSU/MLK library and showed us his aggregator.
It was Bloglines at the time, not that it mattered.
I was blown away by the amount of information — and the quality — that Scoble’s 1200 or so subscriptions provided.
I had started reading a few blogs, and I was probably still using Firefox Live Bookmarks to track them.
By the end of the semester there were more than 200 feeds in my Bloglines account.
That was three years ago, at the very beginning of my New Media / blogging / future-of-newspapers adventures.
Another thing that sticks in my mind that day was Robert’s first question to a newsroom full of “reporting and editing” majors, something along the lines of “How many of you think you’ll be working for a newspaper in 5 or 10 years?”
He lost his audience when he told the roomful of undergraduates with their hands raised that they were wrong, and that they would be working for some other sort of online news organization, or as individual bloggers, but not certainly not in paper- and ink-based news.
Didn’t lose me, though.
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