Scoble wants his old job back, at Google

TIM FAULKNER — Robert Scoble, the blogger (often given credit for giving Microsoft a more personal and open public image at a time when they were universally distrusted as closed, monopolistic, and evil) turned video producer, apparently wants his old job back... only this time with Google. Turning his now classic warning to Microsoft in Google's direction: "Google is too secretive. Too unwilling to engage. Too aloof. Oh, and Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, has lost touch with how normal people think..." [Photo credit: Dave Winer at Flickr]

And Scoble knows the right man for the job: himself!

If I were working in PR there, I'd invite in regular bloggers (not just A-List egoists like that Scoble guy) and let them talk to the engineers so they can see what the engineering intent is when they are doing things that are tracking us. And stop talking like an advertising executive. More and more of my friends are getting freaked out by just how much data Google (and other advertising based companies) are collecting and the inferences they are starting to make about the kind of people we are.

Scoble, everyone already knows what you would do! If you want to return to the job of corporate schill, there's no need to re-use your pitch from several years ago. There's sure to be a Google recruiter at the next A-List blogger event you attend.

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