In search of an enemy

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For years, Robert Scoble‘s blog scobleizer.com was one of the most interesting tech blogs on the web. A big part of what made it so interesting is that he always had readers who disagreed with him. Robert frequently mentioned, and I fully agree, that his commenters kept him sharp.

His most active critic was Christopher Coulter who, best I can remember, did not have a blog of his own but was the first commenter on every one of Scoble’s posts. Coulter was the secret sauce that made Scoble great. The funny thing is that Coulter stopped commenting as much about a year ago (I think). and scobleizer.com has gone down hill ever since.

It may seem odd, but your enemies do a better job of defining who you are than anyone else. A person without enemies is a person who stands for nothing, a person who has no impact on the world and someone that no one cares about. You are nothing without enemies.

So, if you tend to disagree with most of what I say, will you please be my enemy? And if you can’t find anything to disagree with on this site, tell me so. If you don’t disagree with me occasionally, my blog is kind of pointless and boring, and I need to know about it. I definitely do not want to bore you.

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