Scoble’s pronouncement, issued in the first ‘graph of his post announcing his defection to Google, is going to rattle a lot of cages:
I just got off the phone with Larry Page. He’s offered me a job to run Google’s PR department and I’ve decided to take him up on it. Why? Because I finally realized that Steve Gillmor is right. Microsoft Office is dead and I wanted to be at the company that is the future of everything.
Not much else will be said in the ‘sphere over the next few days.
(Update: Psst … check your calendar)
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rob,
you may want to edit your headline….still looks like you’ve been suckered!
mark
Scoble says that Google was going to raise his salary to over $100,000. If this means that Microsoft is paying him less than that in real life (it might not, given the nature of the post, but I’d bet that it does), then he’s being paid appropriately for his official duties rather than for his blogging role which I suspect is far more valuable to Microsoft. Perhaps companies should pay “blogging bonuses” to those who raise their stature, as determined by some reasonably independent person or group. The company would have to decide, among other things, whether it agrees that “there’s no such thing as bad publicity”.
I have not seen the post, but as I know that the rats are usually NOT the first to desert a ship, and that Scoble has apparently a good reputation, does this look like the end of Microsoft. With all the grumbling going on amongst the troops in MS, do we expect more desertions?