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lenn?: Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Skype

I recently accepted a new job and have resigned my post as Director, Platform Evangelism at Microsoft after almost 8 years with the company. I am joining Skype and the family and I will be moving to the UK. I have taken a position on the product and services team at Skype. I have decided that Microsoft and I need to go our separate ways and it is time to move to new pastures.

I have a lot to say about both companies right now. Microsoft lost me for many reasons, Skype gained me for many reasons. I will let you draw your own conclusions rather than disparage my Microsoft colleagues or over hype my new colleagues and company. I don’t believe in writing diatribes and manifestos when moving on from a job so I will spare you the soapboxing. Microsoft has its challenges, we all know what they are, they are more than apparent these days. Skype has its opportunties we all know what they are, who wouldn’t like to see the communication and collaboration technologies in their lives get much much smarter and cheaper?

Wow, this is big news! I just hope Lenn keeps using a Mac

Have you been to the website lately?

I’ve added some new random banners to the rotation.

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Political Bloggers - the new paparazzi - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com

Fortunately , there is a way to deal with the paparazzi. There is also a way for the gatekeepers to deal with the bloggers. A simple way.
Recognize them. Give them respect. Celebrities cant keep photographers out of their bushes no matter how hard they try. The gatekeepers wont be able to keep the bloggers out either. Instead they should invite them in.
Not 1. Not 2. But several from both sides. Bring in the more popular blogs that like you, and the same number of those that dont. Give them as much access as you give the NY Times, Wash Post. Dont muzzle them, let them write
I will tellyou exactly what will happen next. The blogs you invite in will still try to trip you up, but they will quickly morph and act like traditional media. When you screw up , they will tell you when it happens and give you a chance to comment and respond. They will like being on the inside and adjust to try to stay there.
The bloggers left on the outside will continue to try to trip you up, but will spend more time and energy trying to tear down the bloggers who got inside the gates. Jealousy is a bitch.

Wow. Another excellent piece by Mark Cuban.

He’s right though - if you’re not going to blog to defend yourself, you’d better start working with a blogger to get your side of the story out.

Like Guy Kawasaki once said: Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

So in an effort to boost transparency, and attract the attention and mindshare of average consumers, Boeing has set up a website (http://www.newairplane.com/) to let everyone know about the new 7E7 Dreamliner.

It’s a great idea - showing some of the nifty innovations they have planned, and providing the kinds of photos that make aviation fanatics like me drool. They even have live chats from time to time with their engineers. It’s all so cool…

Except that you have to log in with a user name and password.

Except the only way to stay connected is to be on their mailing list.

Except that feedback is pretty darn difficult to provide.

Except that the only conversation you’ll have, is at those chats (which are during business hours - I barely have time to go to lunch these days, where am I going to find time to remember my password and log into a chat?)

Oh Boeing. So close. Yet so far. Perhaps some of my Redmond friends can drive a few miles down the freeway and tell the Boeing folks about this new thing called blogging. Tell them the power of chronologically organized data. The power of rich semantic data. The power of easy to provide feedback. And most importantly - stop password protecting the site!

Argh. I still haven’t had time to blog all my thoughts about bloggercon. And my memory of the things I wanted to blog about is slipping away quickly - how do you deal with this?

Time is such a precious commodity - what I wouldn’t do for more time in a day. Then maybe I could continue to stay up working on work stuff until 3am -and- get some great blogging done.

One of the things I want to write about in the near future is about the personalization of technology: 250 million markets of 1.

EDIT: Ha ha very funny. No, I got to work a 9:30a today.

Wow… even though BloggerCon was just a day… the implications on my life are long lasting. The technologies to learn more about. The sites to start reading. The podcasts to try out. The philosphies to ponder. The money to be made?
1. Thanks to Adam Curry, now I need to check out Dawn and Drew. I’ve only heard great things - but I’ve also heard it’s NSFW.

2. Technorati and Feedster. Ok. Done that. My feed should be registering there.

3. Bloglines and other sites.

4. Newsgator’s website - I promised Greg I’d try it out.

5. ActiveWords. After all, Buzz is in my living room right now.

6. Check out more podcasting. Personally I’m against podcasting - I have some thoughts as to why it won’t improve my life. But I need to try it before I make any bold statements about it.

7. Too many to list
I’d write more, but right now I’m watching Andrew Sullivan on Bill Mahr. And I really should get back to paying attention to the conversion that’s in my apartment about blogging…

It’s been a long day. So many great sessions. So many great people. I’ll try to have notes about my BloggerCon experience tomorrow.

I’ll definitely attend again next year!