Blogpile On Scoble: He's Leaving PodTech

After just a year and a half with PodTech.net, reports are surfacing that celebrity A-list blogger and author of Naked Conversations Robert Scoble is leaving the company next month. As a result, he's really been taking his lumps from other A-listers.

via Twitter before announcing his general lack of availability. "It's true," he tweets, "I'm at PodTech until January 14, 2008. After that? The deal hasn't been signed yet, so we'll announce it on January 15th."

Scoble also denied PodTech was financial trouble, as reported at TechCrunch.

Detractors are quick to note (or, dig in) that this is a much different tune than Scoble sang both in August and late October. In response to late summer rumors that PodTech was "Fake Steve Jobs (Forbes editor Daniel Lyons) reporting that "Scoble was planning to bail in January" and that PodTech was failing.

"This is total, 100% bull####,"
Lyons, er, Fake Steve, was quick to hop on the
"Come on, Robert. Walk the walk, baby. Be transparent. Stand naked before us. Tell us who's offering what. Show us the term sheets. What's that? You're shy all of a sudden?"

Ouch. Well, I guess we'll all find out in January.