Overwhelmed with pitches, Dave, say it isnt so!

Dave Winer says he's gonna give up his blog this year. That's caused a lot of conversations here at SXSW. I'm still processing what that will mean for Dave. For me. For everyone. Anyway, I totally understand why Dave would want to walk away. I'm staring at hundreds of emails and just don't want to deal with my inbox right now. I'm gonna take the rest of the day off and hang out at SXSW. My sessions are over and now I just have to catch up with the email. I totally understand why Dave wants to take off from his blog. The pressure is just incredible to do more, more, more. Who made me a gatekeeper? I don't want that job. Don't send me more email pitches please. Don't beg for me to try out your software. Don't wait for me to blog about your company or your team or your product or you. That's what comments here are for. You have direct access to anyone who is reading this post. Pitch in the comments! If your stuff is good, someone will try it out and say so. Maybe even me. Shel Israel is to be thanked for this post since he wrote about too much blogging. I've realized that what got me here was listening. Listening to my friends talk about their lives. Listening to software developers complaining how hard it is to deal with Microsoft (or how hard our software is to use). Listening to people living their lives and noticing THEM. I've gotten away from that cause so many people think that the secret to their commercial success is to get me to link to them or talk about their products. No, the secret is to start a conversation. Here, let's go. No, Evan Williams, tells about loving to watch the C5s landing at an airstrip near his house. That brought back memories of seeing the same land at Moffett Field in Silicon Valley (my dad used to work at Lockheed so I had a few opportunities to visit the airbase). You might say "who cares?" And you'd be missing the point. It's the small things on blogs that matter to me. It's the small things that make us human. Increasingly our blogs have lost their humaness. We've become marketing machines. Things to be objectified (yes, I did objectify Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Scobleizer blog. He works as Scobleizer